Róisín Garvey (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I purposely did not name the company.

I have another idea. I love the waste management sites. I am like a Womble. I have got bikes, food mixers and televisions from them. I have even made a bicycle-powered smoothie maker out of stuff I got from landfill sites. However, there is no setup there to encourage people to come onto site to reuse such things as timber and bicycles. The lads who work there are great, but there is nobody employed to enable people to come, take the stuff out and reuse it. That practice is actually discouraged because their job is to take the waste in. I would love to see a take-away day. I know people need to get special permission from the local authority if they want to take anything out and it can be very cumbersome. We have a great women's support group in Clare, the Clare Haven Horizons. After a long time, they got permission to take furniture and clothes from landfill. They upcycle them all and it is a brilliant mission initiative. However, it was quite complicated to allow them to do that. Unless people know one of the lads and they turn a blind eye, people are not allowed to go in and take wood, bicycles and other things. So much stuff is dumped that could be reused.