Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)

My party colleague, Senator Paudie Coffey, raised this matter in the Seanad with the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Michael Finneran. Senator Coffey is as concerned as I am over the collapse in international demand for raw recyclable materials. There is not enough adequate storage space for existing materials and it is not acceptable for processed recycled material to be stored in advance before export. I am concerned with the direction of the Government's national waste strategy in light of the collapse of the international market for recycled materials, making it meaningless and irrelevant.

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