Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It mobilises every part of the supply chain to look at what they are doing. It starts voluntarily but, over time, as the targets become compulsory, they get greater teeth. The merit of it is that it has everyone playing a role - the farmer who produces, the processor who processes, the retailer who packages and creates space and then the creation and disposal of waste. In food, there is a million tonnes of food waste. There is very significant loss on the supply chain. It gets everyone thinking about those challenges.