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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: It was not terminated before our previous meeting on 18 May?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: I want to go back to the points Deputy Fitzmaurice raised about the figures and the €210 per tonne levy. Notwithstanding that the IFFPG is obliged to collect only 70% of plastic, is it the case that it collected 80% last year? Doing the sums on that, the organisation was, in reality, receiving a levy of closer to €300 per tonne, based on the tonnages it is collecting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: For clarification, the IFFPG receives €160 per tonne for 100% of the plastic that is supplied into the Irish market in any given baling season.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: The IFFPG is obliged to collect only 70% of said plastic. Last year, it collected 80% but it was only obliged contractually by the Department to collect 70%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: Taking off his current hat, what would Mr. Moloney, as an Irish citizen, suggest, in the interest of our environment and countryside, for how we might solve the current problem, where we have thousands of tonnes in storage, blighting our environment, and the potential for thousands more tonnes to be dumped illegally and introduce environmental hazards of every sort in our countryside? How...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: I am asking this question of Mr. Moloney as a citizen. Does he not see the problem that is there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: Can Mr. Moloney not see how the independent collectors have a grievance when the IFFPG is getting a levy on the plastic they collect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: If the development continues in Littleton such that, as the Chairman briefed us at the start of the meeting, the plant will be able to take 45,000 tonnes of plastic in a given year when it gets to full capacity, then that is over and above the total tonnage that needs to be collected or recycled. It amounts to 100% of the total tonnage in any given year. That will surely reduce the costs....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: What about if that scenario does not materialise? If the Littleton plant does not meet those targets and the IFFPG still has to export a certain tonnage, and it has to be green, how does Mr. Moloney propose to put that plastic through a trommel given that the only company in the country with the trommel technology is now in liquidation and his organisation no longer has a contract with that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: I have a final question. How much more expensive per tonne is it to export amber material than it is to export green?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: Why then would one brother with the trommel process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: I would like if Mr. Walker could clarify whether all of the plastic in his yard is IFFPG plastic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: I welcome the representatives from the Department. To follow on, the current system has been in operation since 1998 and it has evolved over a period to where we are today. While we cannot change the system here overnight does the Department, as the Department with responsibility for the environment, appreciate that the 30% of plastic waste on which there is no obligation on the IFFPG to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: To follow on from that, a good year for the IFFPG was 80% collection. It claimed that today and the last day. Its representatives are almost shouting from the rooftops that they hit 80%. That leaves 20% of the recorded plastic unaccounted for now the private contractors have gone out of the market. That is not to mention the illegal plastic, for want of a better word, that is coming in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: As a nation we all welcomed it because if they had not filled the gap we would have had in the region of 23 years where our 20% of our plastic was in bogholes, down boreens, in ditches and getting burned. I certainly welcome the role they played for the last 23-odd years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: I will pursue that point with Mr. McDonald. For the purposes of debate, could we park what is stockpiled and wind the clock forward to the 2021 baling and silaging season? The private contractors, as we all know now, are gone off the pitch. The IFFPG is going to collect 75% to 80% of the plastic. When there are no private contractors on the pitch, who is responsible for the disposal or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: The IFFPG has been in existence and has been doing this for 23 years. As its management is singing from the rooftops about hitting 80% collection, I do not know how it is going to get to 100% magically in one year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: I apologise to the Chairman for taking up a lot of time, but in conclusion, the IFFPG contract is renewed every five years. As Mr. McDonald said himself it got a new five-year rollover approval last year. When that is happening, is that position put out to public tender? When the Department is rewriting the group's contract every five years or reviewing its performance for approval of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: Is it advertised though, or put out to public tender? Could somebody else apply? Is it a done deal every five years, a box-ticking exercise, or is it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)
Paul Daly: -----publicly advertised?