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Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Diseases (11 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the cost-benefit analysis of Ireland’s bovine TB programme is due to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23734/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Agriculture Industry (11 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 334 of 11 February 2021, the details of his efforts to address the discrepancies affecting the category known as the forgotten farmers, that is, those young farmers who have been denied top-up financial supports due to the fact that they commenced farming before 2015, within the next CAP; and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (11 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1017. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated by her Department or agencies under her remit to An Taisce in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the expected respective allocations to An Taisce for 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24110/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am still getting calls, as I am sure other Deputies are, from constituents who are housebound and awaiting vaccination. These are people within older age categories. The questions they ask relate to who contacts them in the first place, when they will be contacted and the process that will be involved. I understand the ambulance service provides the vaccinations. I would like if the...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: The housing market in this State is dysfunctional and that is not an accident. The outworking of this dysfunction is that the majority of renters do not want to be renters. Most want to purchase their own home and others need the security and fair rent that a council house brings. The motion Deputy Ó Broin has brought before the House calls for a break for those who are renting, a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (5 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in receipt of a housing assistance payment support discretionary top-up in each of the years 2016 to 2020. [23026/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Horticulture Sector (5 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he has put in place to facilitate the harvesting of horticultural peat in 2021 and 2022. [23025/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Agriculture Industry (5 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to address the labour shortage in the mushroom industry; if he plans to reintroduce the pilot labour permit scheme; if he further plans to implement other supports in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23133/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (5 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances in which VAT is applied; the rate at which the tax is applied to the labour cost element of an invoice that includes the cost of actual parts, that is, car servicing and other mechanical goods maintenance and upkeep; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23106/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: 622. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined the feasibility of delivering designated Covid-19 hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23123/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: Can Mr. Lumley name the countries that enforce higher agricultural standards than Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: We take it that the standards Irish farmers are expected to adhere to are set at EU level. What countries have higher agricultural standards for their farmers than Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: Can Mr. Lumley name countries that have higher standards in terms of environmental obligations for their farmers than Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: Can Mr. Lumley name the countries that have higher agricultural standards for their farmers than Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry for interrupting. There may be different levels of production. However, the question I am asking is about the standards to which farmers are expected to adhere. In what countries are those standards higher than in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: The rules under which they are obliged to farm.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: That point is a debatable. I take it that the highest standards in place anywhere internationally for farmers to adhere to are in Ireland. The enforcement of those standards may be a separate point. I want to go back to the point on carbon leakage. In the opening statement, it was argued that if we reduce beef and dairy production in Ireland, it would be met somewhere else. An Taisce...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: The committee is agreed that we should protect our waterways and go to significant lengths in order to do so. Many in the beef sector will have been concerned by what happened with the horticultural peat sector. From Mr. Lumley's stated position, is it the case that An Taisce thinks it is okay to import horticultural peat in order to facilitate the likes of the mushroom sector and others?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: I want to bring our guests back to the original question. What is the solution, in the here and now, for the mushroom sector, for example? As I see it, if we cannot extract horticultural peat in Ireland, the two options that are available to us are to import peat or export the mushroom sector. Which one of these options should we choose?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Matt Carthy: I asked for An Taisce's position. I take from Mr. Lumley's answer that he will not set out its position. I have one final question and I will be as brief as possible.