Results 1-20 of 56 for going forward speaker:Matt Carthy

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...we also recognise that the worsening housing crisis and acute infrastructure deficit are two areas where investment could be prudently made to address real crises in Irish society that would otherwise go unabated and that are worsening under this Government. The establishment of a sovereign wealth fund would make good use of this funding, but rather than marry these two worthy endeavours,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...to do. The failure of the EU to take any meaningful sanction against Israel has undermined Europe's credibility as a voice for peace and conflict resolution in the world. What else is the Tánaiste going to do to force the EU to take action? What action is he going to take? Sinn Féin's Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestments Bill 2023 was read for a Second Time recently after...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...contain commitments to taking a victim-centred approach to legacy issues. Therefore, it is absolutely right that the Irish Government has shown leadership in this regard. In a couple of months' time we are going to mark the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. We will gather again at the memorial in Talbot Street in Dublin and in The Square in Monaghan to remember...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (23 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...I want to put on the record of this House again. The first is in respect of respite services for children with disabilities in County Monaghan, which do not exist. Children in the county have to go onto the waiting list for the services in County Cavan, which themselves only operate every second week for children. The latest figures I have indicate that 33 children receive respite care...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...Sinn Féin has tried to secure an initiative from the Government we have liaised with the Government. On the contrary, the Tánaiste's approach is to announce at 12 noon through the media that he is going to bring forward a motion and then give it to Opposition Members at the very last minute with about a 20-minute window to make amendments. That is not a government seeking to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (21 Nov 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...the issues that it brought to the fore in the first place. It would be a shame as much as anything else. I will not make a political charge. However, I think it would be a real shame if we got to that point. What I am asking the Tánaiste to do is to ensure that does not happen. We know the way to ensure that does not happen is to go through each of the issues, point by point,...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...2024 €654.07 €688.78 €555.53 €595.68 €595.68 €122.83 €164.23 €178.83 €142.76 €79.17 €9.36 Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The allocation of time motion was taken without debate. Just to clarify, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (15 Jun 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...is a difference. I have used both and nothing beats actually talking to a human being sometimes when dealing with a specific case. If we use the business logic which has been prepared and put forward in the Tánaiste's response in respect of this office, then I regret to inform him that the next logical step is that somebody is going to propose closing the Passport Office in Cork....

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...with him on these matters since probably before the last General Election when we debated the need to protect, in the first instance, primary producers, as well as consumers, from what is an ongoing difficulty with our food supply chain. That difficulty arises from that fact that when we are talking about Irish food, there is lots of money to be made, particularly in the beef sector. The...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: .... How else can we explain that this week they have overseen another increase implemented by the Government in many energy costs through another hike in the carbon tax? When measures are put forward that might give families and workers a break, the Government resists them. When there were efforts to decouple energy from gas prices at European level, it was the Irish Government that...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...from 0% to 3.5%. Knowing, as we all do, that this represents hundreds if not thousands of euro worth of additional pressure on already hard-pressed families and workers, it is hard to fathom why Government has not done a single thing to support people. In fact, the increases in mortgage payments for many families go way beyond countering any supports that they have received by means of...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...the EU ambassador, Aidan O'Hara, and his family following the attack on him in Sudan. It would be a major relief to all who know him and to all of us whom he serves that he has been reported to be in good health following the attack. The protection of diplomatic facilities and staff is an obligation under the Vienna Convention. This attack serves to underscore the fragility of the...

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...'s opening statement? They are now being asked to continue to closely monitor developments. We are further away from what sheep farmers need, which is direct new supports, than we were a month ago. Sheep farmers, like those in many sectors, have weathered an unprecedented confluence of challenges over the past couple of years. We have had the pandemic, Brexit, the utter collapse in wool...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...are under threat from what I consider to be an unforeseen outworking of the directive. Therefore, we need to come up with a solution. I accept the bona fides of the Minister when he says he is going to try to find a solution, but I difficulty with what he says because this has been going on for so long. There is essentially one more stage whereby members will have an input into the Bill...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...instance, to make additional product prescriptions exempt for pharmacists. A contradiction arises here in that the advice being given to people is to seek advice from their pharmacists rather than going straight to their GPs, whereas farmers are being sent first to their vets for a prescription and then to pharmacists to dispense veterinary medicinal products, including vaccines....

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...against the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to this Bill, as well as various approaches and legal opinions that have been suggested and brought forward by stakeholders. Now, it seems on the face of it that the Minister and Department have accepted to some degree that the role of responsible persons does need to be protected. This is...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund (26 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Doyle accept, as many of us would have been saying as far back as when these targets were set, that they will prove to be completely inadequate in terms of the housing need going forward?

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...Irish farmers for their quality product. Farmers have been at the mercy of processors and retailers for too long. They are price-takers in every sense. Farmers do not get, and traditionally have not got, a fair share of the profits from their produce. A big part of the problem is the lack of transparency in the sector. We know how much farmers receive for their product either at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...fund. For example, between 2018 and this year, 48% of flat racing prize money went to the top five breeders. In the context of winter all-weather racing, the figure was 33% - it was 46% if you go to 10%. Some 52% of all prize money for national hunt racing went to the top five operators. Can the Minister understand how there might be smaller operators in his county and mine that feel...

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: Fáilte to our guests. I commend the Rural Independent Group on bringing forward this motion. This debate has an all too familiar feel to it. For the past 18 months to two years, Opposition Members have been referring to the lived realities of the people we represent, the fact that the cost of living was exacerbating matters and that the long-standing crisis in provisions like housing,...