Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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I thank Deputy Bruton. He started by saying his impression of the circular economy strategy is that it is all about waste and levies and that is what he took from my initial statement. He believes I am too focused on waste and waste levies. It is a broader challenge than that. Beyond waste and levies we need to make sure that one can repair things, that there is a strong repair sector. That involves skilling people up for repair skills that may have gone away due to our becoming a throw-away society. There are also sharing technologies, for example the companies that provide car or sharing services.