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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to resolve the imbalance in pay scales for principals in primary level compared to secondary level schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30614/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the back to education scheme to allow for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment, especially those with former employers that closed down (details supplied), to retain the same level of payment if they return to education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30615/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms that will be affected by an increase in the excretion figure for a dairy cow from 85 kg of nitrogen to 89 kg of nitrogen by county; the overall impact expected from this move on overall nitrogen levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30606/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms that have had satellite inspections to date in 2020, by county in tabular form; the number in each county that have had penalties applied as a result of satellite inspections by county; the number of expected satellite inspections for the remainder of 2020, by county; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the response of his Department to the revelation that traces of the growth hormone zilpaterol were evident in some animal feeds available here, including any investigation commissioned by him; the efforts taken to ensure that this was an isolated incident and that this cannot happen again; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Communications (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has made contact with a retailer (details supplied) regarding the assertion by the new owners of the company that they will not stock Irish beef products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts to ensure that Pillar 2 payments such as TAMS, GLAS, BDGP and the sheep welfare scheme will continue in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30610/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he expects the Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 to be fully implemented; the impact he expects to have on the timeframe for forestry felling appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30611/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will open the next tranche of TAMS; the actions that will be eligible within that tranche; the number of farmers he expects to receive funding under that tranche; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30612/20]

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am asking about Sunday.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: Please, answer the question.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: I asked the Minister a specific question. Will he answer, please?

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: The Minister is not.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: That is fine.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: I asked the Minister a question.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: That was the only information for which I asked. Will the Minister ask one of his media monitors to go through the Twitter feeds of political correspondents from Monday regarding the response from Government sources to the NPHET recommendation of the evening before? It was an outright attack. It was broadcast live to every home in the country that had "Claire Byrne Live" on a television...

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: Is it not ten minutes?

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: I have a substantive question but I am somewhat perplexed by the Minister's apparent lack of understanding of exactly what happened across families and communities from Sunday night until Monday night after the news broke at 9 p.m. that NPHET proposed to move to level 5. The reaction, the briefing against NPHET that culminated in the outright attack on it by the Tánaiste on Monday...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: EU Regulations (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: That is bizarre. The Minister of State spent the bulk of his contribution reiterating the exact comments that he made during our previous debate, which outlined the concerns and challenges involved, then said that we will face down those challenges at a different stage. He mentioned the consultation with some of the organisations that have an interest in this. He did not state that the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: EU Regulations (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter for debate. This matter is of great concern to tens of thousands of people. I am glad the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Noonan, is here. He will recall that we discussed this proposed EU regulation in a Topical Issue debate on 16 July. During that debate, I requested...