Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If we could get more than 88% of our citizens recycling it would be fantastic. I have to be very critical of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications here, however. If a farmer has slurry or unwanted dirty water or whatever running out of anywhere, I can assure Ms Kiely that the Department comes down on him or her like a tonne of bricks. The Department has clear evidence that there are thousands of tonnes of plastic not being recycled on a per annum basis. It does not know where it is. It is not doing anything about it. Somebody has questions to answer here. I am blaming and absolutely putting it 100% on the Departments door. Has the Department ever checked with each local government area in regard to any inspections carried out to see where farm plastics are going?