Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, irrespective of how it got there, it was still plastic on which the recycling levy had been paid and in turn collected by the IFFPG. Yet, the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications went and used taxpayers' money to pay for it. I will not go into the history of the problem, but the Department could have gone directly to the IFFPG. It was its duty because it had been paid. Did the Department not think it would have been more prudent at that time, rather than getting the taxpayer to pay for this on the double? The farmer, who is a taxpayer, had already paid. Would it not have been more prudent to pick up the phone and to ask the person who had been paid to recycle that plastic to go and do it?