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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Is there a legal basis there? Perhaps Ms Kiely might be able to answer that. What is the legality of charging farmers for the collection of farm plastic? Is that fully legalised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Does Ms Kiely know under which Act that charge comes under?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Ms Kiely is saying there is no legal basis required for charging.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Yes. Ms Kiely is saying that farmers are not being illegally charged. They are legally charged for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Okay. At the previous committee meeting, there was understanding given – I will not say "commitment" – that the IFFPG would clear the stockpiling within 12 months. Why has that not been done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: What is the position with Littleton at the moment? I understand there is stockpiling there. Am I correct? Is that the responsibility of IFFPG or the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Perhaps the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications can answer that question. Is Ms Kiely aware of stockpiling in the Littleton plant at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Okay. I will come back in later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I agree on reaching the target. What percentage is it? The target is 70% and we did 88% last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: If we could get more than 88% of our citizens recycling it would be fantastic. I have to be very critical of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications here, however. If a farmer has slurry or unwanted dirty water or whatever running out of anywhere, I can assure Ms Kiely that the Department comes down on him or her like a tonne of bricks. The Department has clear...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Ms Kiely is not answering my question. The question I asked her, as someone with responsibility and as a very senior official in the Department, was whether the Department has ever asked the local authorities if they have carried out any inspections regarding farm plastics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I am asking the question as to whether Ms Kiely or anyone within the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has ever asked any of the local authorities whether they have carried out any inspections. It is either "Yes" or "No".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: What evidence has come back that there is plastic being stored on farms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I genuinely believe the Department is failing in its responsibilities when it comes to this. It is hard to say that, but it is failing in its responsibilities. It really is. Somebody has to take responsibility. I do not believe Ms Kiely is taking responsibility. She is handing it over to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Somebody in the Department is failing in their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Moloney gets no money from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications whatsoever for any part of running his business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: With whom does he do his advertising and promotion of his collection points and all of that? Does he get any funding from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: That is an absolute failure on the part of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications that Irish Farm Films Producers Group does not get some form of funding to advertise its collection points or some promotional campaign on the importance of farmers getting rid of farm plastics or something like that. That is a complete failure on the part of the Department of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is applying funding to promotion regarding fly tipping and everything like that. I cannot understand why it cannot provide some minimal funding to advertise in the farming papers, be that agriland.ie, Irish Farmers Journalor the national farming media or local papers regarding this. It is a total failure on the Department's part....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Paul Kehoe: I am sure she will be.