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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I thank Mr. Murray. Does Mr. Daly wish to speak?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I understand that it covers both organisations. I now invite Ms Verona Murphy, president of the Irish Road Haulage Association, to make her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: We will now hear from Mr. Thom Fox, chairman of the Association for Tyre Retail Standards, ATRS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I thank Mr. Fox. Our final witness is Mr. Thomas Cooney, the chairman of the environmental and rural affairs committee of the Irish Farmers Association.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I thank Mr. Cooney. That concludes the opening statements and evidence from the witnesses. We will now move to questions which I will group. There are four members present including myself. Deputies Stanley and Smith have business in the Chamber and may rejoin us if they can. I will put a number of questions to the witnesses, and Senator Joe O'Reilly who has indicated, can come in after...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: The Senator is entitled to ask questions. There is a bit of phone interference. I remind everybody again to check that their phones are on airplane mode because there is a signal interfering with the speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: The Senator has asked valid and important questions. I propose to put my block of questions along with those asked by the Senator and put them to the various witnesses. I am not sure if there is a particular natural order of reply or if different witnesses want to comment. Perhaps the Department officials want to respond initially and then we will take responses before moving on to taking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I thank Mr. Collins. I invite Dr. Cotter to respond to the question on fuel and Mr. Henry to respond to the question on the black box.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I will now take questions from Senator McDowell. Deputy Stanley has indicated he wishes to speak also as he has returned following his business in the Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: Perhaps that can considered in the responses to the questions from the two members. Three other members are offering. Many issues are being raised and it might take a while to get through the responses. While we want to do justice to the issues, brevity would be welcome as well. I call Mr. Collins on behalf of the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I am conscious that all members have not asked their initial questions yet. We can have a to and fro later. Will Mr. Collins wrap up his comments? I want to allow Deputies Troy and O'Keeffe and then we can have a round-table if we need to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: Deputy Troy has been waiting for some time and he was involved in convening the debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: There will be a chance for a second round because I know that Deputies have a number of questions to put and that maybe not all questions have been answered. That could also be considered in our deliberations when the committee enters into private session and when we assess the merits or demerits of the regulations. Any answers given or not given - as the case may be - will be pertinent to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: It is normal protocol to break after two hours of questioning. We need to break anyway as we need to come back in private session. If the committee is not going to break I ask the Deputy to take the Chair for five minutes so I can take a break. We will return to that as a housekeeping matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I thank the Deputy. Deputy O'Keeffe will come in next and then we will take responses from the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: I invite the Department to respond first. We will suspend for a short break shortly as we will have been here for almost two and a half hours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: We will suspend for five minutes. When we come back, we can tease this out further.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: We are back in public session and will resume our deliberations on the statutory instrument relating to waste tyres. Just before the break, members and others had the opportunity to put their questions and to elicit at least a first round of responses. Members and witnesses can now contribute further, ask additional questions or probe further if they feel their questions were not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: There will be other opportunities to contribute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Lawless: Do other witnesses want to come in before I go to the members?