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- Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (18 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is the Government, not the Department.
- Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (18 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the farming organisations. I welcome this motion. In the summer of 2024, when the political machines were flying around this country, the promises to all of the farming organisations, farmers and voters that Mercosur would be opposed were plenty. In November, it was said again. I was looking at the programme for Government again this evening. It stated that the Government would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I will do quick-fire questions, to Ms Kiely first. The Department is reviewing a licence renewal at the moment. I presume she knows off the top of her head the amount of plastic that is lying in yards around the country. What tonnage is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Most of the plastic is gathered now, so let us be honest. What are the figures around Ireland at the moment, in all the different yards, before the Department gives out a licence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know that. I asked what is the tonnage today. Obviously the Department has an up-to-date account of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is that advised by somebody else or does the Department have its own independent person who looks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They have a person who goes out to each yard and they know the accurate tonnage. They have a QS who is able to assess it. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are those figures available to this committee where each person went out to different yards and assessed the tonnage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. At the moment I am aware there is an investigation from Europe into plastics in Ireland. Is the Department aware of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Has the Department to do any correspondence on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are 24,000 tonnes around the country, going by what Ms Kiely is saying. My next question is to IFFPG. Where does most of its plastic go at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sorry, you are the Department, you give out licences. Obviously the Department would have an independent assessor going around checking that up, so what is the tonnage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes I understand that but does the Department have its own independent assessor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What are the European facilities? Is that Cedo?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is Mr. Moloney aware that Cedo is now closed or closing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What percentage is recycled in Ireland in tonnage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What is 50%? Give me tonnage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Were 40,000 tonnes recycled altogether?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Collection of Farm Plastics: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Of that, 20,000 tonnes was recycled in Ireland. There is one plant in Ireland that had 4,000 tonnes of a licence and looked for 20,000 tonnes last January. I understand Mr. Moloney's operation has sent plastic to it since. It was refused a licence. Does that worry Mr. Moloney?