Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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I will come back to my first point. How much of this is being done in other jurisdictions outside of the European Union such as America, south-east Asia and places like that? Is there a trend towards more repairable and better quality goods? A nephew of mine recently visited China. When we hear about China, we hear that it is a completely wasteful society. However, he told me that 80% of the cars he saw in the city he lived in were electric cars and that every roof space had solar panels. It was astonishing to hear these stories and that, in the place we have been told is where all this waste is happening, the situation was the opposite to what our imagination would tell us or what the story has been up to now. Is this change happening in those jurisdictions where these throwaway items have traditionally come from?