Mr. Cathal Lee:

On the broader policy question, if we look at some of the triggers that have transformed how food waste is perceived, the French Government made a decision to effectively make it illegal for retailers to dump food as it was coming close to its expiry date and that changed it for everybody. It meant that the retailers then had to think of their waste as an asset. Organisations like FoodCloud and others were able to say they could work with the retailers on that problem. If the committee wrote to the Government and said it should ask the generators in Ireland to look at all waste as an asset that could be used by someone else, that would be hugely instructive because it would send a signal to the industry that it could be doing a lot more. As Mr. Mullins has said, many of them are already there and they want to do something, but of course it is no harm for committee members, as legislators, to take a lead on that.