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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If it is not-for-profit the farmer deserves to know the price.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know the Irish Farm Film Producers Group has contracts. I am asking what it costs per tonne to bale plastic and to bring it out of the country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How can the committee come up with a figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: With due respect I cannot do up the figures. I will put it this way. I know it costs approximately €100 per tonne to bring the plastic to certain places in this country. The cost of baling is on top of that. Would I be correct to say that if the Irish Farm Film Producers Group was to get rid of all the plastic around the country at the moment, it would cost more than is in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct that contractors got a letter from the Irish Farm Film Producers Group last year saying that it would not pay them until four or six months or whatever from the time there was a collection from the bring centre? Is it correct that it sent such a letter to contractors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How quickly does the Irish Farm Film Producers Group pay contractors at bring centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking whether a letter went out last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is okay. No letter went out that contractors would be paid in September or October of whatever?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it the case that Mr. Moloney does not agree with me that the 15,000 tonnes that is hanging around at the moment would cost what is in the kitty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Irish Farm Film Producers Group recycles 40,000 tonnes and last year it took in 20,000 tonnes and has 15,000 tonnes left at the moment, that is approximately 25,000 tonnes of this year's plastic, as well as 15,000 tonnes from last year. Does the Department worry that there is plastic hanging around that, in my opinion, if we were to keep on top of things, should be gone? Where does...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There is no seasonal nature in recycling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sorry but recycling plastic is not seasonal. Plastic can be recycled all year round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Hold on a second. To be clear on this, in fairness there is a time of year when bring centres are open, so the plastic is there from then on. Farmers have nothing to do with this. I am asking if the Department is concerned that of last year's plastic, and this year's plastic that is about to come around the corner, that there is 15,000 tonnes of plastic hanging around the country? In my...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department go out to those who are successful in getting licences to check what tonnage they have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does the Department with responsibility for climate action do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. With regard to plastic, there is now an extra €2. The witnesses said it was €1.60, which is roughly €4 per roll. That means it will now cost €6 per roll ,which is an increase of 50% for the farmer. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: At the bring centres, the price paid was something like €50 a tonne. Is that accurate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is €70 per tonne again this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Turning to the witnesses from the Department, I ask them to explain this to me because I cannot get my head around it. If I operate a school bus, I have to tender to Bus Éireann every five years under a procurement process and tick all the boxes, such as having washed it and all that type of craic. How come a Department gives out a contract, going by what I am hearing, under a fancy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.