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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...workers must be a priority for the sector, in conjunction with a continuous supply of permits from the general employment scheme. I will now deal with the issue of food waste. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Ireland is the fifth highest in Europe for food waste and is approximately 15% ahead of the EU average. It is estimated that food waste accounts for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...situation where we are exporting peat but importing it for use in the horticulture sector. There is an issue relating to councils and the differential with the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The EPA is including multiple sites from which peat could be harvested as one and taking them over the threshold. It comes back to regulation. If we had reasonable regulation of this, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...in future. The Deputy is right in what he said about peat and there needed to be a just transition there. As I said earlier, there are things that still could be done here. The fact that the EPA is looking at including multiple sites in a licence is creating problems at the moment. Many farmers have equipment lying idle that could still be harvesting some peat. I will ask Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Tim Lombard: ...Hallowe'en around the corner, I will not be calling to his door anyway. On a serious note, food waste is an important topic. What is the trend in food waste? The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, figures we have been quoted extensively show we are the fifth highest in Europe, at 15% above the EU average, and our food waste accounts for between 8% and 10% of greenhouse gas emissions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Angela Robinson: The Department is responsible for the implementation of UN sustainable development goal No. 12.3. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has overall responsibility for the sustainable development goals, SDGs, but that specific goal, No. 12.3, was designated to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for implementation. As part of that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Angela Robinson: The EPA has done a significant amount of work in respect of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...who wants to commit. There is a call out for everybody to sign up to the charter. It was launched in June 2023. A number of sectors have already signed up to it. It is an ongoing process. The EPA, which is leading on this, is asking all sectors and all enterprises involved in the food supply chain to sign up to that charter. It is an ongoing, dynamic document and the EPA is always...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Angela Robinson: We have liaised with the EPA on that to seek further breakdown, but it is not available at present. To clarify, the estimate is 8% to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As I said, the food waste prevention roadmap provides for research on the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions, direct and indirect, associated with food waste generation and the emissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Tim Lombard: Does the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the EPA have that conversation with the retailers about the charter to see if they can change specifications, particularly regarding the wonky vegetable issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Angela Robinson: There are two things. The first is the task force I mentioned. This is made up of the EPA, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. That is there to drive the roadmap and the actions contained therein. There is also the food waste charter monitoring group where the Department of Agriculture,...