Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has plans to introduce a tyre recycling scheme for farmers similar to the scheme that operated in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11956/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme for tyres was introduced in 2017 and is operated by Circol ELT. Under the scheme, any tyres which have incurred the ‘Visible Environmental Charge’ are collected free of charge by Circol ELT through registered waste collectors.

In 2018, €700,000 in State funding was spent removing tyres which had collected on farms prior to the introduction of the EPR scheme. I have no immediate plans for a further scheme. It is important to ensure that any such interventions do not undermine the successful operation of the national compliance scheme, which it is intended will ultimately extend to truck and agri tyres in due course.