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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: There is the metro, the Luas and the Cork line.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: That is fine. That is all I wanted to know. No answers were provided to any of the questions that I have. I am trying to figure out what the plans announced by the Government would mean for my own constituents. We have no rail network.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: I gather from what we are hearing now that it is not going to happen. We have three electric vehicle charging points. We have pathetic bus services and no plans really to expand them. If we are to play a part in the reduction of 500,000 journeys per day, the only strategy is to make it too expensive for some people to make some journeys. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: Can I get an answer to that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: To return to the discussion of rail, Mr. Spratt indicated there seems to be quite a bit of emphasis on the strategic rail review. Will he detail as briefly as he can the format that review will take? Who is going to conduct it, what timeframe will they be operating under and what budget have they been allocated?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: As for what the consultants will be looking at, is everything on the table in regard to new routes? Will they assess and catalogue, perhaps, railway lines that have closed and what proportion of those lines are redeemable? Will they analyse, for example, those counties that have no rail lines? There are five such counties, as I understand it, namely, Cavan, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Tyrone and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am trying to get a sense of what that report at the end of 2022 will look like. Will there be a set of recommendations? Will there be a cost-benefit analysis? Will it outline the merits and challenges or disadvantages of new lines? I have a particular interest in that issue. Dealing specifically with the north west, what will the report look like?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: In respect of the issues pertaining to the impact of construction inflation on the cost of the project, I agree with Deputy Catherine Murphy that we need to get an analysis of what that is going to mean in 2022. I note that today EUROSTAT has indicated that Irish price inflation is set to breach 5% for the first time since the financial crash. Obviously, that is having a big impact on many...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: We still have not received the report. If the Chairman recalls-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: I find the letter from the Department of Justice interesting. It reiterates GSOC's mission to provide efficient, fair and independent oversight. Any of us who have had engagement with people going through the GSOC process could not appropriate the word "efficient" to the process. It can be very long and drawn out. I would argue that in many cases the GSOC process is used by the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: There are two items of correspondence, potentially. One is to GSOC seeking a response to the letter from the Department as to whether it is satisfied that it has the resources to carry out its work efficiently. It should also outline the basis of the action that has resulted the letters being sent out. We should also write to An Garda Síochána seeking an update on that action...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am not suggesting that. It is only to see -----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: I support those proposals from the Chairman and Deputy Murphy. The stand-out figures in the correspondence are those relating to claims regarding our health services. The figures paid over the past five years in medical negligence claims amount to almost €322 million. Active claims relating to the HSE are almost 50% of claims, just under 3,830, with an estimated outstanding...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: That would be very helpful. Perhaps the previous report could be circulated again, particularly for newer members of the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: I have a number of queries with regard to the logic that the Department has asserted as to the reason for the extension of the completion of the liquidation. The Department has very usefully outlined the potential losses in asset value if the assets were to be disposed of by the end of this year, next year, 2023 and 2024 and the additional holding costs that would incur. On the holding...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families with housing need currently in County Monaghan. [55049/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (11 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the final report of the working group on horticultural peat. [55048/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (10 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide financial support to horse and pony racing associations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54926/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (10 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: 269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that have been made available to the horse and pony racing sector in response to financial burdens they have borne resulting from the ongoing pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55032/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (10 Nov 2021)

Matt Carthy: 270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with representatives of a sector (details supplied) to discuss supports for the sector arising from financial hardships borne resulting from the ongoing pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55033/21]