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

Under the agreements, the IFFPG gets 100% of the levy to collect 70% of the plastic, which is not a bad deal I must say. How come that if there is a private operator there that has collected plastic that it can give the numbers because I am a contractor myself and we know on a line of baling one must have the number to give at the different centres? If that plastic is legitimate why is that not handed on to those people in the private side of it who collect it in different parts of the country, in order to reduce the amount of plastic hanging around? The second part of that question follows on from that. I am going to be straight and blunt here with Mr. Moloney. We would have heard anecdotal evidence that the IFFPG was less than co-operative if companies wanted to secure all the plastic to go into a venture setting up in this country. If a company was prepared, or, under the just transition if something could be worked with the Department, to set up a recycling facility with the proper machinery like there is in England, would the IFFPG be supportive of that and would it guarantee them all the plastic it has?