Mr. Matthew Collins:

I want to help clarify in response to Deputy Troy. It is actually the Minister who sets the fee. From the Minister's perspective, what we are trying to achieve, on which we are all agreed, is the environmental objective of reducing the number of waste tyres and properly managing the waste tyres that come into Ireland. At present, while people dispute it, we do not know how many tyres come in and go off the Irish market. In layman's terms, the proposal is asking the tyre industry to do what other sectors that produce waste, such as those relating to electronics, batteries and farm plastics, have done. A single vEMC is a standard feature of any producer responsibility scheme. This is why there will not be different types of vEMCs. The Minister sets the vEMC, having taken account of views through the working group. The process will be reviewed, and we have set out that there will be six-month and 12-month reviews to ensure that the scheme is working properly and as we would expect. This is the clarification I wanted to give.