Results 3,161-3,180 of 10,843 for speaker:Matt Carthy
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: It is not good for the people of County Monaghan if it is not delivered.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: People are going to be homeless next week. Where are they going to go?
- 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: A vote has been called in the Dáil.
- 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: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(4) Part 3 comes into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order, but not prior to reciprocal arrangements being in place to facilitate the operation of such a register on an all-island basis.”. Deputy Browne and I submitted our amendment to recognise that the...
- 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: I would like to see a national database that is all-Ireland in nature and for the Minister to make an effort to reach that goal but he has not made an effort so far. It is entirely disingenuous for him to claim that the conditions will be the same for, say, a farmer located halfway between Clones in County Monaghan and Rosslea in County Fermanagh who decides to purchase fertiliser from his...
- 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: I am saying that the Minister should make the effort. I do not know why he is being so facetious about this matter.
- 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: The Minister comes from Inishowen so he should know better than anybody in this House-----
- 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: -----the implications of this. I ask the Minister to please allow me to finish. He should know how important this matter is. He should know the efforts we have put in collectively and unanimously across this House to ensure that we do not allow actions, taken at Westminster, create difficulties in terms of cross-Border trade and with a particular eye to those in the agrifood sector. I...
- 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: Here we are again. This happens continuously. It happened in respect of the grass-fed beef protected geographical indication, PGI. It took the European Commission to force the Minister to move to ensuring the scheme is based on an all-Ireland basis because he said it was not possible to do so in the first instance. Here are we again in respect of an issue that has been raised with the...
- 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: But the obligation, if they purchase it in the South, is on the retailer. The burden will be on the farmer if they purchase it in the North. If the Minister does not see how that distorts North-South trade, then-----
- 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: I consider that to be unfair.
- 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: Does the Minister want to me to say this a third time?
- 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: What is the outworking of the engagement?
- 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: I want to see all-Ireland arrangements-----
- 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: -----so we can address the concerns that have been there. The Minister has not pointed to any discernible action that has been taken. I pointed to other scenarios because the Minister has a record on all of this. He still has not mentioned or addressed the issue of lime-----
- 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: -----I would have thought he would have taken the opportunity to announce the reversal of that-----
- 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: -----position, but he has not.
- 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: These are related.
- 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: I am suggesting we do not do a database until it can be operational on an all-Ireland basis, recognising the consequences for farmers in the Minister's constituency, as well as mine. They are the people I am here to represent, by the way.
- 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: Deputy McConalogue is the Minister. It is up to him to address this.