Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I saw the figures from the same report that he has raised and it is very disturbing. We are moving to ban microbeads in the State and we would like to do this in conjunction with our EU partners because it is a Single Market issue. We trade across every market so we would like to see all products on our shelves with no microbeads in them. We will have draft legislation at the beginning of June at the very latest.

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