Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister referred to rent on the GPO. I understood that, since the GPO was taken over on Easter Monday 1916, it had not been handed back to anyone else. Will he clarify the matter?

Receipts from the plastic bag levy are allocated to the Department.

It is then distributed to local authorities to provide recycling banks. What was the revenue from that in 2016? How does it compare with four or five years ago? Is the revenue holding up? Is there an intention to examine other areas where similar funding could be collected and redistributed to local councils to provide similar valuable services?