BAN MICROBEADS NOW 72% of sampled Irish drinking water is contaminated by microplastics, and fish that we eat have been shown to have consumed plastics. In November 2016 our bill to ban microbeads was disappointedly blocked by the government. The government did write to the European Commission at the time notifying them of an intention to bring in a ban in 2017. That was fourteen months ago! At the time Green Party Senator Grace O'Sullivan flagged that this government will put a ban on microbead