Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is a serious problem looming for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and maybe another Department. Farmers pay a levy when they buy plastic bale wrap. Such plastic is stacked up everywhere because it is not being sent to the UK at the moment. As this appears to be a total mess at present, we must do something in this country to address the problem such as using it to make pallets. The Department must examine the matter because there is a looming problem with the amount of used plastic that has accumulated on farms.