Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion

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

I have a few quick questions. Mr. Dunne spoke about public money. Let us be very clear that it is farmers who have paid for this scheme. The organisation should not regard itself as a hero. It is farmers who pay at the beginning and the end. I am a contractor. I know that when they one buys plastic, there is a levy on it. When that farmer, for whom we go baling, goes to the bring centre, he or she has to pay again. Therefore, those farmers are paying twice for the so-called great service being provided by the Irish Farm Film Producers Group, which itself is getting paid the full levy to collect 70% of the plastic. That is the reality. There are no "ifs" or "buts" about it. The Irish Farm Film Producers Group collects 80% of it at most. That is the bottom line.

I have a question for Mr. Moloney. In respect of recycling, he mentioned that the company does recycling in Laois. Is that correct?

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