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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: If the HSE is concerned about the number of items, I agree these meetings are better when they are specified. Just to clarify, all I want are answers to questions that were put to the representatives the last time they were here. If they are provided to us beforehand, there will be no need to touch on them at all. If they had done what they had promised, it would probably have shocked me,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I have another point on the work plan

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I raise the need for an engagement with the Department of Justice on the immigrant investor programme, and I would like that to be scheduled as quickly as possible.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Can we agree that the first engagement will happen by the end of May?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: 158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland investments that have been made over the past five years; the number that had Enterprise Ireland board oversight, including board seats or a supervisory role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14498/23]

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I commend the Independent Group for bringing this important motion to the House in support of our family carers. I commend in particular Deputy Marian Harkin for her advocacy and championing of family carers, not only in this House but also in the European Parliament, which I directly witnessed, and her ongoing efforts in that regard. Those efforts and the efforts of all of us are important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will try to be as quick as I can. Will the witnesses provide an update on the protected geographical indication, PGI, application for grass-fed Irish beef?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: What about anything general?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Are we talking about this year or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: I congratulate Mr. O'Toole on his appointment, by the way. I met with his predecessor earlier in the term of this Dáil and in advance of the original application being submitted. I made the case for putting forward an all-Ireland PGI application. From my experience as an MEP, I was of the view that it stood much more likelihood of success, but there was resistance from Bord Bia in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: The difficulty is that the farmers I represent might have landholdings. Having spoken to them, I can tell Mr. O'Toole that cows and sheep do not recognise the Border. There is an anomaly, and it creates a situation, to which the Chair referred, that when we have farmers across Ireland competing against one another on price, the farmer loses. The processors will find a way of manipulating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Could Mr. Murray refer to the specific question I asked about the suckler brand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: That is not the question I asked, with due respect, and the clock is running down. Are there any conversations taking place with regard to making an application for a suckler PGI-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: That is okay. That is the question answered. As for some of the figures in Bord Bia's accounts - its financial statements - there is a reference to €4.9 million under promotions, trade fairs and other. Then there is a €44 million spend under marketing and promotional expenditure. What is the difference between those two figures, can anyone tell me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Within the financial statements there is a line referring to just under €5 million for promotions, trade fairs and other. Then there is another line referring to €44 million-plus for marketing and promotional expenditure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: It is therefore the source of the funding as opposed to its expenditure. Is that what Mr. O'Toole is saying, that this is the difference between the two?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Under the promotions heading, in 2020 there was a line that indicated €174,000 on organics, but that figure was zero in 2021. Is that because that has moved into another line, or what is the rationale for that? To bring it to the crux, my question is how much was spent on the promotion of organic products last year, in 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Okay. Maybe we will start from that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Strategic Direction of Bord Bia: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Carthy: Yes. That is because if Bord Bia is spending €50 million on promotional activity across the two lines to which I have referred, and €1 million, that is about 2%.