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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Department has said the national broadband plan is 12 months behind schedule. Eight and a half of those months have been attributed to Covid, which is strange when one considers that works were permissible throughout the Covid period. The correspondence does not indicate whether a sanction has been applied to date regarding the other three and a half months' delay, which the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is what I would infer also. We need to have it clarified. Given the figures it is clear these guys are way off the targets at this point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is the information the Department provided us with at the previous hearing.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: Can we look at R1335?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is in relation to the update on the implementation of our recommendations regarding the children's hospital.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is R1335. I thought that I had it flagged.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I can hold off until next week, if that is what is easiest. Can we put that on the agenda for next week?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: First, I thank the correspondent for again bringing these important matters to the attention of the committee. There is a role for this committee, insofar as commitments have been given that the Comptroller and Auditor General would have oversight of what I understand to be more than €2.2 billion in expenditure that the State holds for wards of this nature. Could the Comptroller...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: Who has oversight and audit responsibility for this funding?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: Will there be correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: The proposal makes sense.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is agreed. I suggest we be more specific with the IHRB and that it would be the Accounting Officer who would attend.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop and support further and higher education in County Monaghan. [35748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements he has had with a view to increasing the provision of on campus accommodation for students. [35749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expected to receive the priority review of the disabled drivers and disabled passenger’s scheme. [35756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the Organisation Review of An Bord Pleanála by the Independent Review Group published in February 2016; the status of the progress of each of the 101 recommendations in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers availing of the nitrates derogation; the total number of cattle in the herds of those farmers; the total hectarage on which basic payment was claimed that is, grassland per county in 2021, in tabular form. [36451/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry to disappoint the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank our guests for being here. Did the CCPC have engagements with the Department with a view to being the body that would be responsible for the UTP legislation?