Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the commitment to introduce a plastic bottle deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16941/22]

Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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The roadmap for the introduction of a Deposit Return Scheme for plastic bottles and aluminium cans was outlined in the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy, published in September 2020. In November last year, I signed the Separate Collection (Deposit Return Scheme) Regulations 2021, providing the legal framework for the scheme, in particular the terms under which a scheme operator may be approved. The regulations also set out the obligations that will fall to producers, retailers and return point operators under the scheme, which will be launched later this year.