Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion

Photo of Pauline O'ReillyPauline O'Reilly (Green Party)
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I will raise one matter that occurred to me, which comes up particularly with bike repair. It can be quite expensive to buy replacement parts. One issue is that bike repair is faced with double VAT, in a sense, because VAT is on the initial product and the replacement parts. It makes it quite expensive for a business to then sell that on. Does Mr. McLoughlin have any thoughts on that? Is there any movement on it?