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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Do we have a baseline performance for Ireland on these eight streams as of now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Surely the baseline data are there if you know that they are collecting a certain number of tonnes. As a small number of people are doing the collection, surely the baseline is evident.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: I would have thought that was relatively low-hanging fruit, and that we would not need a strategy to start to tighten some of those matters. I want to ask about the green procurement baseline. Reading what Ms Kiely said will come out of this, the only sector she seemed to be firm about was ICT. It struck me that it is probably happening anyhow. It is not a stretch target that by 2025 a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The OGP has a very bad record. Saying the Department is working closely with it does not fill me with confidence. At some point higher up in the hierarchy of command, there has to be a decision that green procurement matters. The EPA is right in saying it has not really impacted. I do not know how-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The targets have to be more severe on the public sector in delivering on procurement than we would be envisaging for the rest of the consumer sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: There is no evidence that sort of leading by example has been a feature. For my last question, I return to the issue of repair. It strikes me that the whole trend has been towards shorter life – replace rather than repair. That has been the commercial model. Changing this will be expensive for the sector. Does the regulatory impact assessment, RIA, on this repair show the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Returning to the issue of liability and insurance, if I go to a cheaper repairer than the manufacturer, do I lose the warranty and all that sort of stuff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: In respect of the circular economy, we have to move from launching interesting pilots to creating an admiralty, as someone else said. It is not an original quote but the concept is valid. Two thirds of what we put into our bin is in the wrong place. We are coming from very seriously off the pace. I have a provocative question. Does success mean that there has to be commercial entry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: How would such a scheme be designed? Ms Downey said that of the 170,000 tonnes of textile waste being produced at the moment, just 10,000 tonnes are being reused. If we brought in an extended producer responsibility model, one presumes we would recover well over 100,000 tonnes. We need to see that chain being a quality chain. What model would keep the existing sector and the scaling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: From 1 January, we will have a pilot textile scheme with none of the sorting and back-end activity. Is that true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Are the witnesses worried about what we talked about earlier, namely manufacturers balking at honouring warranties if repairs are carried out through a voluntary scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Is there an issue with parent companies stating that the warranties they offer have been destroyed because their products have been repaired by a community repair shop?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: The WEEE sector has much higher targets, which we can see down the track. Is it possible to do it without an extended producer responsibility? One has to aggregate to get scale.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: As we heard earlier, there is no tracking of what happens after the material goes to recovery. We need to get quite forensic about what happens subsequently to all this WEEE material, including where all the various batteries are assembled and where they go. My worry is whether community bring centres can get us to the scale we need. If they cannot, how do we make the two things...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: That is not in the scheme starting on 1 January.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: Do the witnesses want to deal with product liability and insurance, just to explain the day-to-day grind?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 41. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the response to his call for capital support for new childcare places; and his plans for the longer-term expansion of the sector. [26054/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 63. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has initiated drafting of legislation for a childcare development agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review her decision to not classify works (details supplied) as representing an emergency category, given the engineer’s report which was submitted. [25921/24]