Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is still another more or less the 10% that Senator Paul Daly was talking about so that was 4 million, along with the year before that is 6 million bales that are unaccounted for. The Irish Farm Film Producers Group is getting 100% of the levy. I do not accept what Mr. Moloney says that nobody gets 100%. They are getting 100% of the money. If I ask someone to build a house and I am giving them 100% to build the house for me, they do not go away after just putting up the walls and I have to cover the other 30%. The Irish Farm Film Producers Group is getting 100% of the levy. I am blaming the Department here as well. With that amount of plastic that is still around the place, surely someone, either Mr. Moloney's company or the Department, should be responsible to make sure that that plastic is removed out of the countryside and not be stacked up in farmyards or in sheds. If Mr. Moloney were to ask me to do a job for him and he gave me 100%, would he expect me to leave it at 70% or would he expect me to finish the job? I will put the same question to the departmental officials.

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