Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

I am delighted that we are ad idem on the matter. I welcome the new entrants to the marketplace. We would always welcome new media such as Herald AM and Metro. However, the downside to their entry to the market is the flurry of paper that is, as the Minister stated, making DART carriages look like Wall Street after a ticker tape parade.

I do not want to single out one producer of waste over another. The principle is that if one supplies a product that must eventually be disposed of, one should pay some proportion of its disposal cost. I am delighted the Minister is in discussion with the industry. When will he regulate in this area and what kind of regulation does he envisage?

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