Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion.
11:00 am
Mr. Des Crinion:
The Deputy may have picked things up wrong. We are not looking to guarantee our profits. We are looking to protect the cost of the green bin to our customers. We are also looking to protect the incentivised charging. This is what is making us very unhappy with the system that is coming into place. We were trying to drive and are driving an incentivised charging system that encourages people to use the bin. By taking the very valuable material out of it, that incentivised charging is disappearing. That is what we are asking for and that is what we got a guarantee on from the Government that it has not fulfilled. That is what we are after and it is not about profits. This is about protecting the incentivised charging around green bins.