Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Victor BoyhanVictor Boyhan (Independent)

Surely, down the corridor or up the back stairs, someone would tell Ms Kiely they know the Garda or the Revenue, the big boys, are on the case here, there are problems, they have not been sorted out and they are coming at the Department. People do not mess with the Revenue or An Garda Síochána. These are the enforcement agencies if there are issues around illegality, as Ms Kiely suggested.

I will finish by saying that I will be making a further call in this regard. Indeed, I have a number of questions in my head. I will go up to my office and type them out now, so they will come Ms Kiely's way in a few days. The issue of the involvement of An Garda Síochána will be among them, and rightly so, if there is illegality.

If there are issues about avoidance of tax, or the VAT rates, North and South, Revenue should be on that case too. We have got to clean up our act, literally, excuse the pun. I was not aware of what I have been told today that there are yards full of stuff that has not been processed.

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