Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Liam Moloney:

This year is the first year we went hard at that. I can talk more on farmer numbers. Two hundred to 300 farmers were perhaps double charged this year. This was a difficult thing to do because, as the Deputy, can imagine nobody wants to be double charged but we take our responsibility seriously when comes to assisting the enforcement authorities. We tightened up on the traceability this year. Some farmers ended up paying double charges.