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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It would be useful if the committee got a note from the Department about what it considers to be the solution to this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I agree with that entirely. There is a lot of talk about learning lessons. Every Department that comes before the committee is learning lessons from some previous debacle, yet new debacles are always beginning. None of those is bigger than that relating to the national children's hospital. At some point, someone - whether it is this committee or someone else - will need to look at how we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will make another point. Deputy Burke mentioned that construction inflation has increased dramatically. We hope since most of the building work has been completed although the contract itself burdens the entire cost of any inflation over 4% on one side. It is mind boggling how so many people looking at a contract could not see a danger in that When we first raised it which is not that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The difference is that in that case, that percentage was built in to the original contract. What happened here was that 4% in construction inflation was built into the original contract with a proviso that everything above that, regardless of what it was, would be borne by one side. How it works with social housing projects, as we know, is that if costs go beyond what could have been...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53596/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the targets for delivery of IDA supported jobs in County Monaghan for 2023. [53597/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 99. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her intended timeframe to implement an effective rural proofing model. [53599/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Derelict Sites (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 112. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will establish a grant scheme towards the renovation of derelict rural properties for the purposes of providing tourism accommodation. [53598/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that speech and language therapy has not been available for in-patients at Monaghan Hospital in recent weeks; when such therapy services will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54029/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent number of speech and language therapists for in-patients that have been available at Monaghan Hospital on the first day of each month from January 2020 to October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54030/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That was felling; this is about planting.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I want to lodge with the Taoiseach directly my very real concerns about the direction of the forestry strategy in the State. There is a target in the programme for Government of planting 8,000 ha of new forestry each year. Our climate action plan assumes that we have been planting 8,000 ha of new forestry, but we are only managing about a quarter of that on an annual basis. It is getting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I understand the time pressures we are under, but this is an issue the committee will have to return to. It has wide implications. The members will be aware that I have raised this issue and used the Lough Funshinagh farmers as an example. This is precisely the type of situation for which the force majeureprovision is included in the Common Agricultural Policy. To me, it is an absolute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Chair, it is a secondary point but can we agree to write to the Minister, Deputy McConalogue in respect of force majeurefor the CAP payments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank our guests for attending. The topic, a vision for the future of Irish farming, did not really lend itself to an hour long meeting as there are so many issues and permutations and factors that need to be considered as to whether Irish farming has a future at all, particularly in terms of the family farm model. Even the debate we have had thus far this evening shows that this is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That comes to the crux of the issues we are going to face. I am sure there would be quite a reaction from other farming organisations to any proposals to restrict the saleability of a person's private property. I am struck by the opening statement of the witness where the limited availability of land is mentioned. The statement also addressed that some schemes for moving land from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The point I was also making was that we have not had reduction policies. In fact, food production has increased but so too has the number of farmers. That is the point that I would like the witnesses to address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: This is a valuable debate because there are contradictions in probably what we all say. Mr. Keane quite rightly made the case that farming should not be restricted to the sons and daughters of existing farmers if it is to have a future. Every sector needs new people coming in. He spoke quite rightly about the fact that there are three and four generations being supported by individual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will follow up on some points Deputy Cowen was pursuing. The first is to comment that the North is in line with EU regulations and is compliant with EU veterinary medical products regulations because they avail of the derogation contained within those because their equivalent of responsible persons have had the historical right to prescribe and, therefore, it fits in. The difficulty is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That would be the implication of the witnesses' evidence.