Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion

Mr. Liam Moloney:

On the issue relating to Walker, we did receive legal advice and its contract was terminated on 4 June. Let us be clear as to why that happened. It was terminated because it was in the liquidation process. It was no longer able to provide a service for us. We did not terminate its contract before liquidation or that this made any contribution to the liquidation process. It went into liquidation because it had severe financial problems, not because IFFPG was not supporting it. As I said, we supported it to the hilt and gave it record quantities of plastic for its recycling plant. There were eight counties in which it was providing a collection service and we could not have supported it any more. Despite that, unfortunately, its financial circumstances were such that it went into liquidation, and subsequent to that, we terminated its contract.

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