Ms Bernie Kiely:

None. To my knowledge, they are looking at the permitted sites. They are acting on reports. I am not aware of them going onto farms. I am not sure that is within their remit. I am sure if colleagues within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine inspection service come across anything problematic, they would take action.

As the Deputy has heard, Bord Bia seems to have introduced this requirement to have certification of responsible management of end-of-life plastics, which will help drive more farmers to return their plastics. We are very pleased with the co-operation from farmers in managing the plastic and using it properly for what it is there for and then storing it until they get to bring it to a bring centre or have it collected. Really, we have not had any complaints that any farmers are acting outside the system or doing anything irresponsible with plastic.