Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The levy will fall on the user. It is much like the plastic bag levy. The intention is that it will stop the practice, but the intention is also that it will fall on the user, not the retailer. To defend a compostable cup, one first has to collect every compostable cup one gives out in order to be robust. It is not practical for businesses to do that. My point was more a response to Mr. McGrane's point. I just threw in the compostable cup as an aside. It is taking a longer term view of what the framework will be like for businesses and rural Ireland in five years' time. It will be a very different framework from the one from which we are still emerging. I welcome the invitation to have more positive thinking about what we want for the future.