111. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his plans to introduce legislation requiring supermarkets and large food retailers of a certain size to donate and make available, without charge, any unsold and edible food stuffs to registered charitable organisations and food banks, while also making it a criminal offence for such businesses to dispose of and destroy edible produce without having first offered it to these groups; if he has given consideration to the potential benefit which such legislation may yield in the reduction of food wastage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43201/15]

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111. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his plans to introduce legislation requiring supermarkets and large food retailers of a certain size to donate and make available, without charge, any unsold and edible food stuffs to registered charitable organisations and food banks, while also making it a criminal offence for such businesses to dispose of and destroy edible produce without having first offered it to these groups; if he has given consideration to the potential benefit which such legislation may yield in the reduction of food wastage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43201/15]

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