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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which it was decided that the salary of the new Chief Executive Officer of Horse Racing Ireland would provide for a single salary point rather than consisting of phased increments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5522/22]

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 16, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(i) existing levels of afforestation adjacent to domestic dwellings,”. I will not push this amendment to a full vote but the Minister might accept it. Essentially, we are proposing that one of the criteria to be taken into account before the Minister approves a scheme would be the...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: The areas the Minister referred to are addressed in the Bill through the environmental assessments the Department will be obliged to take into account. We are asking that the scheme take into consideration the existing levels of afforestation and, to go back to our earlier conversation, the types of afforestation involved. We want a forestry policy that delivers for the environment and the...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will make a brief comment. The Minister has talked about some of the positive things that have happened. The evidence is that this House has supported him. He mentioned the legislation on forestry appeals. The Opposition collectively agreed to waive pre-legislative scrutiny to ensure the legislation’s speedy passage and through the Dáil. I do not believe there is anything...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Why not, indeed? If the beef exceptional aid measure, BEAM, scheme, for example, had come before this House for approval, we might not have had the situation where so much money went without being drawn down and then had to be repaid through penalties. It is precisely for those reasons that there is a need for oversight. There is a particular problem in forestry, however. Quite frankly,...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Minister has said he will provide that information and I welcome that. The reason we put forward this amendment was that we think that information is important. I will take the Minister at his word and I will not press the amendment.

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 15, line 30, after “grants,” to insert “subject to Dáil approval and”. This is the most important amendment we have proposed and I hope the Minister will adopt it. We have heard about the broad outline of the scheme that is being brought forward which exempts afforestation of broadleaf trees up to 1 ha. We support that,...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Without rehashing everything that has been said, the reason we want this to be brought before the Dáil on an annual basis is because it will focus minds. This is an issue we really need to get right for all the reasons outlined by the Minister to which this Dáil has agreed. This has implications for a myriad of different policy areas such as land use, rural and regional...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 15, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(i) shall on an annual basis lay a report before Dáil Éireann on the level of afforestation per Local Electoral Area, the level of which is broadleaf, and as to how this aligns with government policy and objectives,” I thank the Minister for being here. I will take a moment...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: It needs to be transparent-----

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I asked if the Taoiseach regrets his part in this grubby affair. It is a grubby affair.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Talking about our health services, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the pay for the Secretary General of the Department of Health went up yesterday by €3,000. That is on top of the increase last November of €3,000. That is on top of the additional €81,000 on which the Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy Ryan, and the Tánaiste collectively agreed, without any...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: We remember the Government's fanfare at major launches such as Our Rural Future, the shared island initiative and the ten launches for the NDP. The lofty words spoken at those launches about commitment to rural, regional and all-Ireland development actually count for very little when compared with the failure to deliver the infrastructure projects our regions require. We recently learned...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am prone to delivery.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: This project.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: This is the Clontibret to the Border project.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 19 January 2022, if he will provide the number of completed connections and premises passed in each county and in each month of 2021 under the National Broadband Plan in tabular form given that the question did not receive an adequate response. [5266/22]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I would like to be associated with the expressions of sympathy to the family of Noel Treacy, and also to Senator Buttimer on his loss. I apologise for attending online. I am trying to balance attendance at two meetings at once. I thank the Minister for his attendance and his opening remarks. I will try not to repeat questions that have already been asked and I will try to ask my...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I refer to the number of phytosanitary certificates to issue. The 2020 outturn was 1,030, the 2021 output target was 13,050 and I see the 2022 output target is 2,400.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: The issue of veterinary alignment has been kicked down the road until the end of the year. Does that output target represent both the deal and no-deal scenarios, to use those terms again?