Mr. Brian Quirke:

Education and awareness are hugely important and are key focuses of the National Food Waste Prevention Roadmap 2023-2025, which deals with communications about food waste. The EPA is a very important stakeholder in that process. There is Stop Food Waste and consumer-facing awareness campaigns. Our Department has been funding food waste awareness campaigns in collaboration with the local authority sector. For example, national food waste recycling week was held last year, and we are waiting for that to be rolled out on an annual basis. In the past couple of years, it has included the provision of advice. There was also funding through the awareness campaigns to roll out food waste caddies to educate householders on segregating food waste where it actually occurs, such as in the kitchen, which makes sure that food waste is segregated and put in the proper organic bin.