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

With due respect I cannot do up the figures. I will put it this way. I know it costs approximately €100 per tonne to bring the plastic to certain places in this country. The cost of baling is on top of that. Would I be correct to say that if the Irish Farm Film Producers Group was to get rid of all the plastic around the country at the moment, it would cost more than is in the kitty, going by the figures I have received from talking to people about the costs to get it out of the country, to England? Is it fair to say it is now tougher to get plastics out of the country now with the different colour codings, at one time there were green plastics I think it is now called orange or amber. I spoke to contractors who bring it out. Would it be fair to say that with the 15,000 tonnes hanging around, it would be nearly impossible to get rid of the plastic with what is in the kitty?