Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I have a final question. I take the point that everyone has made about second-generation microplastics. I do not think anyone is disputing that. Have any of the other EU member states that have started to look at this issue introduced legislation or regulations? If so, could those of us who are interested in this matter be pointed in the direction of those measures? I know this aspect of the matter was raised by Senator Grace O'Sullivan recently. I would like to put a similar question to the industry representatives who are in attendance. Have their counterparts in other areas of business made any attempts to introduce voluntary agreements or voluntary regimes in respect of second-generation materials, or is it only the first generation that has received this kind of attention?
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