Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion

Mr. Liam Moloney:

I am not aware of the answer to that and Bord Bia would not have engaged with us with regard to that requirement. Increasingly, we are being asked by farmers to get copies of receipts because they are having Bord Bia inspections. The upshot of that is going to be that farmers are going to come in more frequently, if this is what is driving it. Over the past ten or 15 years, many farmers have come in every year, but some would keep their plastics for a two- or three-year period and then bring them in. Maybe the more recent Bord Bia requirement is going to change practices in that regard.