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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Have concerns been raised with the IFFPG or the Department on the corporate governance of the IFFPG or compliance with requirements of the EPA? Will the witnesses share with the committee any concerns outstanding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I am aware of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: On the IFFPG's compliance with all the regulations and requests of the EPA, are the witnesses comfortable the organisation is fully compliant and there are no outstanding issues with the EPA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Mr. Moloney is speaking on behalf of the organisation. Is he confident in saying the IFFPG is not aware?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: That is great. That is a more collective response. Will the Department answer that question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Ms Kiely. That assurance is very important to the committee, so I am glad to hear that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Is Mr. Moloney aware of any issues with the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: That question is to the Department and Ms Kiely, I am sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: That is great. We will move on. Regarding the compliance officers' reports, Mr. Moloney outlined that he has them. Could he briefly take us through the mechanism for the compliance reports. Are they clean bills of health? Can Mr. Moloney reassure the committee that there is a clean bill of health from the compliance officers' reports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Moloney. He mentioned illegal activities, could he elaborate on that? What would be the most recent illegal activities that he would have been aware of?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Could Mr. Moloney share with the committee the extent of that illegal activity in the last 12 months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: To what extent does Ms Kiely or the Department have knowledge of this illegal activity in the last two years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Illegal activity is what I am talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Would Ms Kiely be in a position to tell us if she feels that the local authorities are adequately resourced regarding their role in all of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: There have been no concerns raised by the local authorities regarding their capacity to police this area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: Would Mr. Moloney have a view on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Moloney. On the bring centres, would he be in a position to provide the committee with a list of these bring centres, and their locations and a list of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: It would be helpful. Some of us will take the time to visit one or two of them ourselves. It is nice to walk the ground and see first-hand what is happening on the ground.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: No, we could see it geophysically online. We do not need to be getting our boots on and going around. We do not need junkets or trips to see this. We travel enough around the country and we can have a look ourselves. If Mr. Moloney could provide a list of those centres, it would be very helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Victor Boyhan: I am sure Mr. Moloney spoke about corporate governance. In summary and wrapping up, it appears that all is well in his organisation. It appears that all is well, and the Department has no issue. That is reassuring, at face value, after my questions. I am going away a lot happier, but again, until someone rings one of us up tomorrow and says something different, we have to take it that...