Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is one other issue from the discussion so far. We have some producer-responsibility initiatives and I announced the public consultation process for two of them in recent times. One was for tyres. In a rural constituency, like the Vice Chairman's and mine, they are not all in silage pits. If we could find the 50% of them that go missing it would be a big help to the environment. There is also an initiative for end-of-life vehicles. We are not introducing new green taxes. Levies are already being imposed on the customer for tyres and end-of-life vehicles to assist in the necessary resources for disposal. I wanted to correct an erroneous headline that appeared in a newspaper recently suggesting that we were introducing new environmental taxes to deal with these waste streams; we are not.