Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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We have done a fair bit of analysis on plastics, as have others. We would be fairly confident there are 35,000 tonnes of plastic lying around in yards in Ireland at the moment. Why did the Department not, as we asked, get an independent body to carry out an estimate or quantification of the amount of plastic that is in those yards?