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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Will it be advertised for people who may want to have an expression of interest when the scheme comes up for renewal in 2025?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Okay. That is it for the moment. I might come back in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Normally I would say that Deputy Martin Browne has already said what I was going to say and I will not rehearse it, but I will rehearse it because it needs to be said again. The question is as much for the Chair as it is for the Department and the IFFPG. Where do we go from here? As a member of this committee, I am not comfortable. I probably will be told that this committee's duty is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I am talking about the 12%, and I said it from the start. Everybody is talking about the 70% to 88%. I am talking about the 12% to 30% that there is no obligation to do but yet for which IFFPG is paid. As Deputy Browne said, I do not know of any other instance in the world where somebody gets paid upfront 100%, to use his analogy, to build a house or whatever, and everybody seems to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: It is if you are getting paid for 100%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: As Deputy Fitzmaurice said, if a holding company or the Department was collecting the money from the producers, I would accept 88% as being a brilliant figure and then, at the end of the year, the Department would release 88% of the money to IFFPG. When IFFPG is getting 100%, 88% is a great figure from IFFPG's point of view but to me it is not. There is 12% gone missing that IFFPG is paid for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I am not arguing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I never argued once. A total of 88% is a fantastic figure when it comes to recycling any commodity, particularly plastic. I have been talking about the 12%. Quite possibly, my question is more appropriate to the Department. What is the Department doing about that 12% that is out there in the bog holes of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I have been told here it is not in the bog holes. The question is, where is it? It is an accumulating 12%. It is 2 million bales this year. That will be 10 million bales in five years. It has to be somewhere. That is the question I have been trying to ask. Maybe I am not phrasing the question properly. It will be the equivalent of 10 million bales in a five-year period and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I will ask Ms Kiely again. When the licence expires in 2025 and on its renewal, would the Department perhaps see merit in it collecting the levy itself and only paying, from a holding company or some such entity, for what is recycled? We are all getting bogged down because we are talking about the 88% or what I assume is a one-off because it is the best year ever. According to my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: On a point of clarification, I want to revisit the final interaction between Deputy Fitzmaurice and the Department. I want to get my own head around the issue of the stockpile to which he referred, or to the issue of the yard, or whatever one wants to call it. The Department funded the local authority to have that recycled or removed. That is what I picked up from the conversation. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Would the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications not have thought that rather than burdening the taxpayer with that bill, to pick up the phone to the Irish Farm Film Producers Group, IFFPG, to say there was plastic for which it has a levy to recycle and to ask it to recycle it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: No, irrespective of how it got there, it was still plastic on which the recycling levy had been paid and in turn collected by the IFFPG. Yet, the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications went and used taxpayers' money to pay for it. I will not go into the history of the problem, but the Department could have gone directly to the IFFPG. It was its duty because it had been paid....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Yes, but the Department has a contract or licence agreement with the IFFPG to recycle plastic. It is collecting the levy on the plastic. The levy was collected on all that plastic. Irrespective of where it came from or how it ended up where it did, the levy was collected on it and it was paid to IFFPG. Would it not have made common sense to pick up the phone, to say that there was a yard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Yet, it was still plastic on which it was were a levy to recycle. Does Ms Kiely accept that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: That is irrelevant. It is totally irrelevant to the circumstances of the case and of how the plastic got to where it did. The bottom line is that this was plastic on which the levy had been paid by the farmers for recycling. That levy had been paid to the IFFPG. Why did the Department not pick up the phone and say to the IFFPG to go and recycle this plastic which it had already been paid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: No. No, I am sorry for interrupting Ms Kiely. I said that the circumstances of the plastic in question, where it was and how it got there, are not up for debate here. The point I am making is, irrespective of who bought it or collected it from farmer, or whether or not they got paid by the farmer to collect it, the bottom line is that it got to where it was and it was becoming an issue....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: Okay, I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: I accept that. Therein lies proof of where the system is flawed.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Paul Daly: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?