Deputy Mary Lou McDonald- speech from 2 Jul 2024
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It seems that waste collection companies are threatening to hike prices for collecting recycling bins. Their claim is that this is to make up for the loss of plastic bottle and drink cans to the deposit return scheme that is now in place. If this price hike goes ahead, it will be a blow to households, many struggling with the cost of living. People you know have engaged in the deposit return scheme in good faith to play their part in protecting the environment, but now they face, it seems, a rip-off for doing the right thing. I am sure you will agree with me that this cannot be countenanced. The idea that households could face higher costs to protect the profit margins of private companies is outrageous. Taoiseach, when will the Government follow the example of other EU states and bring the bins back under public control to ensure households are treated fairly and to protect them from unfair costs? The Government is not planning on doing that, but the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications is currently engaging with the Irish Waste Management Association and other stakeholders, such as Repac, to conduct a robust evidence-based process to quantify what is substantive impact, if any, the introduction of the deposit return scheme will happen on the waste collection system in Ireland over the longer term. Projection is done by the financial sector, such as Repac, to conduct a lot of debt, as an independent nation, as a society, as a society, that specifically has its ability to continue to discharge the account of the suficiente and have the benefits of the need of the service team and will understand. And this is the Law 9th Amendment, the Department of Environment and Destruction of the Environment List of Deaf specimens of the Environment. The Department of Humanities of the Environmental Design General Services and the Treasury Земulas of the Environment Actions in Ireland on the United Nations, the Department of Environmental Ampunas and the Department of Environment and Punctu to Water Statistics of the Environment Kingdom of the Environment of the Environment of the Environmenten