Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Following on from Senator Lombard's questioning, Mr. Moloney said only the plastic collected by the IFFPG concerns him. The IFFPG collects a levy on 100% of the plastic. Independent operators have collected because, in fairness, it is recognised that very little plastic is thrown in farmers' yards around the country. The vast majority of it is collected. Whether an extra 15% or 18% of the market has been collected, therefore, they have collected that without any levy. They collect it on the basis that they hope the market will improve. Is Mr. Moloney saying the IFFPG does not have any responsibility to help those independent operators to offload that plastic given fact that it collected the levy?

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