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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Okay. I thank the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: The body is an approved body. It is appointed in the same way as many other producer bodies with which we are familiar, such as Repak, etc. The producers get together to make a proposal for a scheme, the Minister reviews it and agrees terms and conditions with the producers for their organisation and corporate structure. The Minister agrees a method of reviewing their performance. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: There is an independent chair but there are no Department officials on the board. That is also the case for other producer schemes I am familiar with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: That was in 2021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I do not have that information. I will have to confirm that. It was before my time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Certainly. This issue has arisen in questions in the Dáil and it has been publicly raised. As a result, it is one of the issues that is discussed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: We specifically asked for it and we received it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: The IFFPG.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Its contractors’ yards are now in compliance with the local authorities’ terms and conditions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: It was by email. I do not have the exact date on which it was received, but I think it was today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Does the Deputy want a copy of the email?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I take Deputy Mythen’s point. The relevant bodies for this are the Waste Enforcement Regional Lead Authorities, WERLAs. I will ask for their confirmation that the compliance figures are correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: The first question is about the letter from the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, stating that as part of the mid-term review there would be a desktop survey of compliance of the storage of farm plastics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Uncollected farm plastic waste.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: That survey has been done and I am happy to share it with the committee. I have it here and I will send it on through the Chair. Is that all right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: If the Senator likes I will go through some of it. The scheme is currently achieving a 95% collection rate. It is estimated that between 3,000 tonnes and 4,000 tonnes of farm plastic waste is not collected by the scheme annually. This includes an estimate for unlevied product placed on the market. In terms of what happens to this waste, IFFPG can only speculate that a portion of it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I will.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (Resumed) (15 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: The Senator is right to say the amount of money IFFPG has is the total amount of levies paid in by producers. For the 5% that did not come back, those levies are still in the account. That money is unclaimed. It is unlikely we will reach 100% recycling. That is not the target IFFPG is operating to. When we look at other waste streams in society, we are not achieving 100% anywhere else....