Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Apologies, Chair, I do not know what happened there. I am not asking a question on the climate Act, generally. My question is on the decisions around how waste is collected if we have a situation whereby companies increase their charges because they are not profiting from the waste coming in and if there are persons who are not able to or are not choosing to access recycling for cost reasons. That is not a problem for households but it is a problem at local level. Rather than a household approach, are there times when a collective approach, for example, shared collections in terraces, might be better? Building waste is really important because it the key area of waste we have discussed. Where there is a large development, we know the waste can only be on site for six months. We are looking for measures for requiring for long-term storage of materials used in buildings so we make that a condition of waste management plans during the planning process.