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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I welcome the witnesses. Will the IFFPG give some background on why it was set up originally? What were the aims and targets? What was the positive side for the farmer in that organisation being set up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: On the oversight from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications over the years, and more recently over the past five or six years, what type of complaints is the IFFPG getting? What kind of oversight has the Department of the IFFPG? What regular meetings does it have with the Department? What input does the Department have into the IFFPG?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Moloney will be aware that we all got emails regarding his organisation from different people and organisations over the past two or three years. Is he content and can he confirm that its accounts are fully above board, that everything with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is open and transparent and that it is hiding nothing? We get these accusations so it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I will ask the same question of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Is Ms Kiely happy to confirm that any complaints that the Department has received regarding the accounts of the IFFPG have been fully investigated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I will go back to Mr. Moloney with regard to the scale of the service, the number of collection centres and the level of participation. How many farmers participate in the scheme? What is the amount collected and processed by IFFPG on a per-annum basis? I believe it is in mid-30,000s in tonnage terms. Am I right in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Will Mr. Moloney give us a recap on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: How many farmers would retain plastic for two to three years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: If Paul Daly or Paul Kehoe are using the IFFPG service and if either has suddenly not shown up with their farm plastic, who follows up to see what they are doing with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Does Mr. Moloney believe there are farmers going rogue and doing whatever they want with plastic? There is oversight from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, yet there is no oversight in terms of following up with farmers to see what they are doing with their farm plastics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: How many licensed collectors has the IFFPG on its books?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Where are they based?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: What gaps exist where IFFPG would need further licensed collectors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Have all of those four licensed collectors full planning permission in place and every box ticked, for example, in environmental terms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: They all have planning permission for storage facilities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: How do I qualify to become a licensed waste collector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Are any of the IFFPG’s four licensed collectors engaged in stockpiling?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Between the volume that they have planning permission to hold and the stockpile volumes that they have, is Mr. Moloney aware that any of the IFFPG operators are way over their planning permission volume?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: When Mr. Moloney says they have a few problems, what sort of tonnage would they be stockpiling?