Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Senator O'Reilly is keen that we have a discussion on rainwater harvesting at some point, so we will keep that in mind.

O the issue of resource efficiency, one of the reasons we have the Bill in process is climate change and there is a related reason for controlling the volume of disposable waste that we generate. A lot of this is generated outside Europe, often in developing economies. There is a proposal before the EU at the moment to bring in a carbon border adjustment mechanism. Do the witnesses think this could have a positive or a negative impact on resource use in Europe? It is five or six years away yet, but it seems that one of the problems we have is all this cheap plastic that is being generated in distant economies. Could carbon border adjustment mechanism something positively curtail some of this production?