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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Not in real terms.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Okay.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: Well, okay. We will dispute this point and we will return to it, no doubt. Turning to my two final brief questions, regarding the outlay for the sheep welfare scheme, I see this has been revised downwards to €18 million. This is again a payment that has remained static. In the indicative allocations for 2023-27, this area has been allocated €20 million annually. By my...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: The Minister mentioned that a forestry programme was launched today. What is now the afforestation target for 2023?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: We are not, therefore, targeting an increase for next year, considering the abysmal record we have had in the last three years?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (9 Nov 2022) Matt Carthy: The significant change, however, is to meet the targets that were set three years ago-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: The concept that public acceptance must be sought and earned by public bodies before they railroad their way through with an infrastructure project will be alien to the Minister. Experience tells us when you try to do this, you encounter delay after delay and wasted money after wasted money. This is what we have experienced to date. The Minister is simply blind to this fact. I want to see...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: It has not been done.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: Then engage with the communities that will be affected by it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Minister should commission the report that is actually being sought. Would he do that?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received a review of the North-South interconnector; when it will be published; and if he will commission a full independent assessment of the potential undergrounding of the project. [55410/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: I again raise the issue of the North-South interconnector and ask the Minister whether he has received the review of the interconnector which I have been sceptical of, if he could outline when it will be published and, most importantly, whether he will commission a full independent assessment of the potential undergrounding of this project.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: I raised this issue with the Minister on 20 September and 7 April last, on 4 November last year with the Minister of State, on 21 April with the Taoiseach, and on 10 March 2021 and on 22 September 2020 with the Minister directly. Each time I have raised the issue with the Minister, he indicated his refusal to engage with local campaigners on it. Each time the Minister refused to accede to...
- Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: One month on, even after all that has been said, there are still no words to describe the trauma, heartbreak, pain and sorrow being felt by so many because of what happened in Creeslough. Ten lives are gone. The impact of such a loss has now truly hit home. For at least ten homes, it will never go away. The truth is that Creeslough will never be the same. A semblance of normality will...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Export Controls (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his proposals to reduce the amount of polyethylene terephthalate, PET, plastic exported from Ireland; if he has considered introducing a levy on the use of virgin plastics; and if his Department will collate data on the quantities of PET plastic that are recycled domestically and exported. [55411/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: 150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that he has taken to ensure the financial sustainability of the current post office network, especially in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55592/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: 959. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allocated a transfer to the National Remedial Hospital for psychology and vocational training that they urgently require; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54370/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: 960. To ask the Minister for Health the current capacity of the National Remedial Hospital; the plans, if any, to expand same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54371/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: 961. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list per county or lowest available geographic unit for places at the National Remedial Hospital; the corresponding figures for each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54372/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2022)
Matt Carthy: 1090. To ask the Minister for Health when the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital will be open at weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54869/22]