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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister and his officials for engaging with us once again on this important legislation. We will have a private meeting on Monday morning and we will prepare our pre-legislative scrutiny report at that meeting. That concludes our proceedings for today. Amendments to the committee's draft submission on the climate action plan were meant to be in by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Tipperary currently in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment; the number in receipt of the payment on the same date in April 2021; the number of persons in County Tipperary who have received the payment since its introduction; the total expenditure on such payments in County Tipperary...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are available for a person who wishes to renovate a protected structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26079/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Apologies have been received from Deputy Paul Kehoe and Senator Victor Boyhan. Before we begin, I remind members that, in the context of the current Covid-19 restrictions, only the Chairman and staff are present in the committee room. All members must join remotely from elsewhere in the parliamentary precincts. The secretariat can issue invitations to join the meeting on MS Teams....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: To elaborate a bit further, what Mr. Fitzgerald is saying clearly to us is that for a number of years it was profitable to collect and export plastic without receiving the levy. He was able to do that without the levy. The IFFPG was collecting the levy and charging farmers at its depots for taking in the plastic, even though private operators were doing that in the absence of a levy. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: There is a company in Wales that will take it but it is uneconomical to take it there. Is that the scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Mr. Fitzgerald, you said you visited the Littleton plant and the machinery there was not robust enough. The plant is not yours but I have two questions. There was significant investment in that plant. I was present the day that this project was launched amid much fanfare but, obviously, it has not operated successfully. What kind of capital would be required to make Littleton a successful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: It has collected a levy and has charged farmers for dropping it at its depot. It had lucrative years exporting it in the past. If it had to take a loss now and export it to the UK, why is it stockpiling it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: We will be asking it in a few minutes' time. Deputy Brown, you wanted to get in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Mr. Fitzgerald. Has anyone else a question for Mr. Fitzgerald?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Yes, Senator Murphy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice. On behalf of the committee I thank Mr. Fitzgerald for engaging with us on this topic of farm plastics. I know it is his business but I appreciate him coming in to give us a very frank explanation for us on the issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I propose to suspend the meeting now for a few minutes to allow our other witnesses to join the call. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: For this second part of our meeting I welcome from the Irish Farm Film Producers Group, Mr. Liam Moloney, general manager; Ms Geraldine O’Sullivan, director and company secretary; and Mr. Tom Dunne, chairperson. Mr. Dunne has not yet joined the call, we are trying to connect with him now and he may join us as we progress the meeting. The witnesses are all very welcome to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: That is a direct question to the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: I call Deputy Martin Browne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: That is okay. My secretary gave me a list.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: That is no bother. I call Deputy Michael Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Following on from Senator Lombard's questioning, Mr. Moloney said only the plastic collected by the IFFPG concerns him. The IFFPG collects a levy on 100% of the plastic. Independent operators have collected because, in fairness, it is recognised that very little plastic is thrown in farmers' yards around the country. The vast majority of it is collected. Whether an extra 15% or 18% of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Plastics Recycling: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Jackie Cahill: Why is it not the responsibility of IFFPG? It collected the levy on it. The plastic is there and must be recycled. How does that responsibility change with the fact that it is in an independent collector's yard rather than a farmer's yard?