Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion
Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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I will pursue that point with Mr. McDonald. For the purposes of debate, could we park what is stockpiled and wind the clock forward to the 2021 baling and silaging season? The private contractors, as we all know now, are gone off the pitch. The IFFPG is going to collect 75% to 80% of the plastic. When there are no private contractors on the pitch, who is responsible for the disposal or recycling of the additional 30% of plastic this year? We should remember the farmer who will have it in his or her yard has paid a levy on it for the recycling and disposal of it. Who in the Department's view has responsibility for that this year?