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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: Okay. In conclusion, will Mr. Dowling elaborate on what contact and dealings the Beef Taskforce has had with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission? There was a lot of talk at the time of the protests before the agreement in 2019, and when we met them on the pickets, many farmers mentioned monopolies and cartels. The Beef Taskforce had contact with the Competition and Consumer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Task Force: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: To confirm, it needs to be brushed up on in the context of the report because it specifically states the value of sales of beef from Ireland.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: I am speaking to amendment No. 92, which I propose. I will have very little to say in regard to the amendment as my colleague, Senator Lombard, has covered it. The two amendments are very much related but complement each other. The inclusion of amendment No. 92 with the amendment spoken about previously, amendment No. 1, will strengthen the climate action Bill for all the reasons that have...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Paul Daly: I will be brief because I am aware of the number of amendments and the length of the debate so far. The just transition is the cornerstone of everything we have to achieve to meet the targets we have set. It is something of a buzzword. As Senator Boyhan said, we need actions as well as words. I do not believe any of the amendments will change anything I intend to say. Change is needed but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: The Chairman mentioned that a piece of the front loader had gone through and caused damage. I take it they are taking in the plastic in the condition it leaves the farmyard and that it does not have to be trammelled and so on before it gets to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: I understand it would have to baled, but does it have to be trammelled and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: Deputy Fitzmaurice has covered many of the burning issues but I have a few more questions. Mr. Dunne said in his exchange with the Deputy that since our previous meeting, unfortunately, Walker Recycling Services has gone into liquidation. However, that would not have affected the IFFPG in any way because, at the time of that meeting, it had ceased its contract with the company. Is that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Collection and Recycling of Farm Plastics: Discussion (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Daly: Is Mr. Moloney saying that the IFFPG had a contract with the company until such time as it went into liquidation?

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.