Mr. Kevin O'Donoghue:

I would have no problem in taking that up then. Certainly, that is an enforcement issue that we can take up.

The rule, through the national waste collection permit office, that the Deputy referenced in terms of permit conditions, is that the operator must roll it out to an agglomeration greater than 500. If the agglomeration is of that size and the brown bin is not rolled out, that is something we can certainly take up.

As for whether waste has a resale value, most of it at this point is negative. It costs to move it. In November last, the Minister announced the national recycling list. It is the same materials go into the so-called "green" recycling bin no matter where one lives in the country. That has had an effect in that we were always hearing concerns from those managing a parent's bin or whatever where one operator would allow different materials into the bin than another. To simplify the entire process, it is now a national recycling list. Recyclinglistireland.iehas the list. It is the same materials that go into the bin right throughout the country. Some of those are higher value materials, such as bottles and aluminium cans, that may still have an outlet but much of the material that the Chinese market is closed to has a zero or negative value at this point and it is costing operators to move that material on.

I have covered the issue of consumer confusion. We also have a recycling ambassadors programme as part of the education and awareness. We have 650 of those taking place throughout the country. We hope to do an outreach to 15,000 people. That programme is starting to pay dividends in terms of people's understanding of what goes into what bin. On the fines issue, it is very minor at present in terms of the companies that have tried to do this. They are looking at installing cameras on the back of the lifts so that as the bin is tipped one can see which household is doing it. However, it is an education issue to try to make people aware that contaminating material in the green bin means the entire load is useless. We must get away from the position where there is still 36% contamination in parts of the country. That cannot continue. The markets are very tight for moving these materials on and anything we can do to help consumers increase their awareness of that is where our focus will be.

Frank Conway will comment on the appendices.