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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Does the Minister of State have any indication as to its findings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Will the Minister of State share that desktop report with us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Giving its content the benefit of the doubt, we are talking about 95%, so there is still a shortfall of 5%. Based on figures we calculated here previously, that is the equivalent of 2,000 tonnes still unaccounted for. That is a lot of plastic to be going into a wheelie bin to be honest. I am not being smart or flippant. It has to be out there somewhere. The bones of my question follows...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: It gets that levy on all plastic that is sold. When the silage season starts in May this year, people will buy their plastic. The levy is taken from the farmer when he pays for it, and it works its way back to IFFPG. That is May 2024. That plastic then sits around the bale of silage until next winter, possibly until almost this time next year if it is a year like last year. It then works...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Yes. Along with the levy, the company's other source of income is the collection charge. It has doubled the charge per tonne, which is an inhibitor. That is where some of the 5% is going because it is becoming an expensive pastime to deliver this plastic to depots. IFFPG had to double that charge because it knows where its balance sheet is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I have no doubt that is not an issue. I am a farmer and am happy with the scheme as a farmer, but as a Senator and public representative, based on our previous meetings, I am anything but happy with where I see the process going. It is a time bomb that is ticking and we need to get to the bottom of it, based on evidence we have received here before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Does the Minister of State or Department have any idea how much plastic is stockpiled around the country on which the levy and collection fee have been collected but which has not been recycled or shifted? It is sitting stockpiled in yards. Has the Minister of State any idea of the tonnage that might be out there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Is the Minister of State not fearful that if the stockpile - which I call it for want of a better word - keeps growing, as it seems to be, while the money that is supposed to be for recycling it seems to be dwindling away, a day will come when it will be a bust?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I hope it fits into our schedule.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I have a question. It will only take 15 seconds. On the review of IFFPG that we are reading about, is IFFPG reviewing itself? Is that an independent review?
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: It is not grouped with other amendments.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Can I take it the Senator is withdrawing the amendment with a view to reintroducing it at a later date?
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I thank the representatives of the Department for appearing this evening. There is not a whole lot to ask. They have everything in here, and it is what it is. We are not going to change it now. On the GAEC 8 changes, I will be 60 shortly. CAP has been around a long time and I have been listening to talk about simplifying CAP for as long as I remember or understood or knew what it was. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: Is that they do not need to meet the 4% requirement anymore?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: This would have been an issue for large arable farmers who did not have hedgerows prior to this change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2024)
Paul Daly: I have one final question. If the change is welcome in the context of simplifying things for farmers from the Department's perspective, for the farmers themselves, this change is coming mid-stream. I am not being critical when I say this but just stating a fact. Payments were late and the answer given was that this happened because of the Department's computer system and technology and...