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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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank Mr. Moloney. Finally, again, regarding the vision and the investment that he is talking about, that all has to be linked in to some sort of strategic plan. It would be very helpful for IFFPG, but it would certainly be very helpful for us as a committee to understand it, and get some sort of measure of confidence about the plan. I presume IFFPG has a strategy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Could Mr. Moloney share that with the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: It is really important that IFFPG puts out its best performance here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I would welcome an opportunity to look at that. Again, I want to thank Mr. Moloney and Ms Kiely from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for engaging. It has been helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Again, to the Department, is it aware of this illegal activity, and how does it monitor and deal with it?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Tomorrow an important piece of legislation will be put before the House, which is the redress scheme. I will not go into it now because it is for debate tomorrow. Many Members have received a lot of correspondence. The parties have received a lot of correspondence. There will be quite a few people listening in to this debate tomorrow externally and internally. When the Taoiseach came to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Chair, and I want to thank Ms Timmons, Mr. Ó Coigligh, Ms Stapleton and their team for being here today and for laying out what they have achieved and done. However, we still have a major issue; we have a housing crisis. We have a Government now past its mid-term in office. There is huge expectation, understandably and rightly, from people who cannot either afford or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Stapleton might come back to me. I particularly want, as I said, the Dublin ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: Ms Stapleton does not know the figure. Could she tell the committee today what are the direct social houses built by Fingal County Council in 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: That is great. I will give Ms Stapleton plenty of time. I will move on, as I am conscious of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: The figure for social housing direct build by Fingal County Council in 2022.