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

Going by the figures I am looking at, if the IFFPG gets €160 a tonne it would well cover transport, baling, paying the gate fee and all of the other elements. This is why I cannot understand why we charge farmers. That is for a different day. The committee can look in detail later at how it is going for the farming community.

We are having this meeting because we were contacted about an issue we spoke about at our previous meeting. At that meeting, I asked whether we have green plastic. I was told it was put through a trammel and then went out as green waste, which looked like a great idea to be quite frank about it. My understanding is that when Mr. Moloney came before the committee at our previous meeting he was aware of 20 containers that had gone out since January and, because of new EU regulations that changed everything, they were sent back. Is this correct?