Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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Yes, but the Department has a contract or licence agreement with the IFFPG to recycle plastic. It is collecting the levy on the plastic. The levy was collected on all that plastic. Irrespective of where it came from or how it ended up where it did, the levy was collected on it and it was paid to IFFPG. Would it not have made common sense to pick up the phone, to say that there was a yard full of plastic that the IFFPG has already been paid to recycle, and to ask it to go and recycle it, rather than involving a third party at an expense to the taxpayer?