Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

-----who showed me their product. I also visited a facility in Waterford where they were taking old pieces of PPE including facemasks, simply heating them up to a temperature at which no bugs, bacteria or viruses could live on them, and then melting them down into plastic and creating new PPE or sports equipment. I met the head of procurement in the HSE, John Swords, which is the largest procurement body in the State. As such, it has a huge role to play in this. It is turning the ship around on this and there are changes in how the health sector views procurement. It is particularly difficult for the health sector but it is making changes.