Dáil debates

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions

Food Waste

11:15 am

Photo of Joe CareyJoe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. A great deal of progress has been made to reduce our food waste over the years. If one looks back at 2009, the first pilot was done at Frenchpark in Roscommon which entailed a national master composter training programme. The programme has been rolled out nationally since. The introduction of brown bins was another success. There is a website, stopfoodwaste.ie, which is also very good. I welcome the Department's interaction with the various supermarkets, including Tesco, Lidl, BWG Foods and Musgraves on the initiative mentioned by the Minister and in the setting up of the action group. Charitable organisations like FoodCloud are doing tremendous work. Along with Simon, it operates a food hub in the midwest, which is great. We need to build on this progress . As such, I ask the Minister whether he has plans to step up efforts to reduce food waste.

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