Seanad debates

Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Microbeads (Prohibition) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

1:30 pm

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 4, line 23, after "soluble" to insert "and/or fat soluble".

These are quite similar and the amendments address the same matter. The first set of amendments looked to remove conditionality and the other amendments make an addition. The addition is "fat soluble". If a product is soluble and by its nature is being dissolved, it usually implies the involvement of water and that it will eventually enter the water system in some sense. Even if the Minister could not support us on the previous wide-framing approach, we hope we might be able to move forward in having water-soluble and fat-soluble elements in this. It would address the matter where plastics are effectively transmuted through liquids, whether water-based or fatty.

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