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Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: After last night's debate on waste, I went home to my own house to see what we were doing. There is a cupboard in which we put waste before it goes into the bin. I am sure everyone else knows the expression: when I opened up the cupboard, suddenly an avalanche of stuff came out. We are awash with it. We are being drowned in tonnes of plastics.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Polypropylene-----

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Eamon Ryan: Polyethylene-----

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Eamon Ryan: Polystyrene-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Why can I not ask my question?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I can ask my question.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Could the clock be stopped so that I have time to ask the question?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am acting in a dignified fashion, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Can I ask the question?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Can we restart the clock because I have not had the time to ask it?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: We are drowning in plastic.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: The use of plastic has increased 25-fold in my lifetime.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: It is growing at 5% per annum. Some 150 million tonnes of that plastic is now in our seas. We are adding a dump truck every minute. We have to stop this and cut out the waste. It is not easy. It takes attention. This is vital to the question of how much people have to pay, because rather than having to pay for all that and work out whether it is recycling, which most of it is not when...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: -----such as bioplastic bases, which are usable.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Can I ask my question?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am not being disrespectful. I am just trying to make a point. I also recognise that we have done a lot of good. We have increased our recycling over the last 15 or 20 years. However, at this point when the householder is going to have to pay for all that stuff that goes into the black bin, will the Taoiseach and his Government introduce and support the Waste Reduction Bill that we have...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Taoiseach support our Bill, give a 10 cent deposit back on these bottles and containers and cut out these coffee cups so that we help people to reduce the amount of waste they create?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I asked other leaders yesterday whether they would support this Bill and perhaps even go further and give of their time because we do not receive a huge amount of Private Members' time. I am fairly confident that if it were to get onto the floor of the House - I hope it will and if any party wants to help us in that regard, we will work with it - it would carry the day.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I am fairly confident that we would have the numbers in this House to get the measure through. I am supportive of the Minister. It is not an easy job, but he has signalled today that he does not want to change the current system. That is the point I am making. We need to win the hearts and minds of the people and not turn this into another water charges row. We have to be seen as not...

Rugby World Cup 2023 Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Jul 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I do.