Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I am thinking about the waste stream and building is a good example. Only 11% of material thrown out is even recycled let alone recovered into reuse streams. Reuse is something less than 1%. Unfortunately we do not have a high health and safety standard in construction. As far as materials handling goes, we might have good practice but it is not a sustainable practice. This is not a criticism but someone needs to think to think through how we can create an acceptable standard for repair and reuse in construction, white goods, telephones and all this.