Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I will reiterate the point that the difficulty I have with the scheme is that a company, a not-for-profit company but a company nonetheless, is getting €160 for every tonne of plastic that is sold without having the obligation even to attempt to collect it all. There is no obligation on the company to collect it all. The scheme, therefore, de facto recognises that a significant portion of this plastic is unaccounted for. In the long term, that is unsustainable. To repeat a question I asked earlier, is Mr. McDonald satisfied that it is appropriate that two thirds of that waste is potentially exported?