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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Ossian Smyth: ...chain together in a coherent manner. The new circular economy fund was established last July. It signals a clear commitment to further integration of circular economy principles in practice. My Department has recently taken a number of very significant steps to help drive the necessary improvements to our waste segregation practices which will form a major part of our efforts to meet...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: I welcome the work the Minister of State has undertaken since the passage of the Act. I must say, however, that his Department continues to view the circular economy through the very narrow lens of waste and levies on waste materials. That is evidenced in his own presentation but also in the plan which he recently presented, where the ambition is zero growth in waste per head of population...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Ossian Smyth: ...example, when they are buying household equipment, beyond looking at the brand name, they can tell whether a product is going to be longlasting. There are also provisions under the EU right to repair, guaranteeing that people have access to repair manuals and spare parts going into the future which will help keep products in use. The Deputy is right, it should not all be about waste and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: Two years ago we were talking about this Bill that became an Act. We were talking about the EPA. These are the very same things that we are talking about and I worry the scope to do something different is on a long lead. We need to nail down dates for each of these elements. If you go into a building site today, the smaller building sites are not separating their material. Everything is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Ossian Smyth: ...from landfill levies. The landfill levy is €85 a tonne and most of the material going into landfill now is exempt. The reason it was exempt until now was that it was not possible to get an EPA determination in a reasonable period of time to be able to use it on another site. That has changed. Once that change came in from the EPA this year, I then said it was time to end the...