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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: Here is the real problem and issue. The Minister knows I had fundamental disagreements with the way in which the previous Government and this Government when it took office approached the EU budget negotiations. I was part of some of the conversations. They did not condition Ireland paying an increase of several hundred million euro into the EU budget on us getting a return through the...
- 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: If the Minister does not understand the realities of what inflation means in terms of figures-----
- 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: I am conscious of the time.
- 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: No, absolutely not. I have two specific questions. I dispute what the Minister has said. I am speaking about the real value of the money we pay our farmers at a time we are asking them to do much more.
- 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: It is not. Pillar 2 in real terms is a reduced-----
- 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: In terms of both pillars, the next CAP will mean, in real terms, a reduction for farmers in respect of the payments they receive, compared with where they were at the end of-----
- 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...