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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Do the local authorities contact the OPW or does the OPW engage with them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: They came through the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Mr. O'Connor will be aware there is some media coverage of the fact that certain areas of the country seem to be immune from any responsibility regarding housing, either through direct provision, emergency accommodation or now through modular housing. They just happen to be some of the wealthiest parts of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: In that instance, what happens?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will address this to Mr. McCarthy. There is a sense of unfairness about how this has been done in many areas, some of which have already suffered high levels of deprivation and low levels of service. That in turn feeds into the anger that we have seen, which is then manipulated by people who have a very regressive political agenda. From Mr. McCarthy's perspective as Secretary General,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: If I understand correctly from what Mr. O'Connor has said, there are certain places that are not offering anything, so they are not even in consideration.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: We are talking about areas that are the most beautiful places in the country to drive through. There are huge areas of publicly owned green spaces and other publicly owned land that is suitable. I am not suggesting that we just move in and build a pile of modular homes but we need to have a balance in terms of those areas.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: However, some parts of the country have remained relatively untouched-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will finish on this point. There are rural communities and urban working-class areas where there is a high level of frustration with and disengagement from "official Ireland", to use that term. These are places where you cannot get a GP appointment or it is very hard to access any public service and that has been the case long before we had anybody seeking asylum in this country....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I have raised the case of Shane O'Farrell with the Taoiseach, as has Deputy McDonald. It is approaching 12 years since Shane was killed by a man who should have been in prison at the time and five years since the Dáil and Seanad adopted resolutions calling for an independent public inquiry into the actions of An Garda Síochána and other State agencies both before and after...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: The line of attack from Fine Gael over the past 24 hours seems to be one of arguing that Opposition members’ sums do not add up. I do not know how the sums add up in respect of telling people they have to wait for additional supports while they are struggling to make ends meet, while across Departments more than 192 people are employed in communications, or PR spin to use a different...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Not all Ministers are the same at keeping things confidential.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: After months of worrying reports regarding the immigrant investor programme, the Government yesterday abruptly closed the scheme. The so-called cash for visas programme allowed wealthy people to receive Irish residency in exchange for investments in business or a charitable contribution. There have been serious concerns surrounding the operation of some of the investments made. For...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: The investor is the biggest broker in the scheme.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Will the review be published?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Services for Children with Disabilities (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for her response. We are at one in respect of where we need to get to and I welcome that. However, for the family I am dealing with now, time is of the essence. I fear that childhood is being impacted and also the well being of the family. If one was to try and make this family's life more difficult, sometimes the responses of the agencies could not do a much better...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Services for Children with Disabilities (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I am renowned for my brevity so I will try and keep it that way. I sincerely thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for taking this debate. It relates specifically to the issue of respite services in Cavan-Monaghan. She will agree that respite can make a huge difference for the family of a child with disabilities. It is good for the child, it is good for the parents and it is good...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 12: In page 12, line 17, after “inspections” to insert “, including unannounced inspections,”. This amendment is very simple. It is to ensure that unannounced inspections can be part of the regulator's remit.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: That is the way to do it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 13: In page 13, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(4) The regulator may at any time request comment from interested parties on any aspect of a code of practice submitted under this section.”. This is to insert the proposition that the regulator may at any time request comment from interested parties on any aspect of a code of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: We can deal with it on Report Stage. The language used in the amendment is "may" so it does not impose any obligation for it to be shared with third parties. This will benefit all concerned. If a processor is going to the effort of engaging with the regulator on a proposed code of practice, it would make sense that the people who are intended to benefit from it would have some input before...