Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is still a lot of misinformation out there. The Minister of State said the non-compliance rate with tyre regulations was 46% but while 46% of economic operators may not have registered, financially they equate to less than 5% of the total tyre activity in the market. The Minister also said a large proportion of waste tyres were stockpiled. The EPA confirmed that the five largest stockpiles since 2007 were on sites of licensed waste collectors, not dumped in ditches around the place, which no one would condone. The Minister of State did not address the appointment process for Repak to administer this scheme. Why was this scheme never put out to tender? Why will this new scheme ultimately cost us consumers over €3 per tyre when the existing scheme, as acknowledged by Repak in its presentation to the Minister of State's parliamentary party, was doing it for 80 cent plus VAT?

This new scheme came in at the beginning of November. How many people have signed up to it, if it is going so well? The Minister of State said there was a lack of information and statistics on non-compliance but I have received correspondence from the chair of Tracs, who outlines the number of collections and other information from 2009 to 2014. People will acknowledge the need for greater compliance but the reason there was not greater compliance was the failure to sanction. Who will provide the additional funding to already cash-strapped local authorities to police the new regulations, considering Repak has no enforcement responsibilities, just like the previous collectors?

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