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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if eligible applicants will continue to be able to access the community childcare subvention scheme; if new entrants will be allowed to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26467/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a crèche (details supplied) will receive payment for its early childhood care and education scheme from the date of operation, that is, 31 August 2020, rather than the date the contract was activated, that is, 7 September 2020, in the interests of fairness and in recognition of the financial challenges the loss of income will...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Data (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers that commenced operation of the early childhood care and education scheme prior to the activation of the contract; if these providers will be paid for the entire period of operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26469/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meat Processing Plants (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the dates on which and the centres at which testing has taking place since 1 June 2020 in respect of serial Covid-19 testing at food processing plants; the number tested at each site on each date; the number of confirmed cases identified per testing cycle at each individual site; the average time for delivery of results per testing cycle at each confirmed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 814. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all NPHET recommendations conveyed to him and his Department in respect of meat processing plants and the food processing industry; the actions undertaken by his Department on foot of each of these recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26478/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 815. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 740 of 15 September 2020, the number of protected disclosures made by HIQA staff directly to HIQA management in each of the years 2015 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020; the number of staff concerned in each year who are currently working on a full-time basis with HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 816. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the legal opinion obtained by his Department in 1996 regarding the reason dental technicians cannot register with the Dental Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 817. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to facilitate the registration of dental technicians with the Dental Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions taken on foot of the inclusion within the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, correspondence of 7 August 2020 of the point that NPHET agreed the interim recommendations of the report Investigation into a Series Of Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants in Ireland and further recommend that the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances to date in 2020 in which mechanical grading in meat factories has been suspended and reverted to manual grading; the factories concerned; the length of time for the suspension in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26460/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he plans to put in place in accordance with the commitments made in the programme for Government to ensure it will still be possible to purchase mushrooms, lettuce and herbs grown here in shops and garden centres at a reasonable cost when stocks of horticultural peat produced here are exhausted in the near future and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect the mushroom industry here, which has a farmgate value of €119 million and relies on horticulture peat, in view of the potential depletion of peat reserves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26462/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1007. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of temporary veterinary inspectors who have been employed at each relevant food processing plant; the number of temporary veterinary inspectors who signed the waiver at each plant in cases where they were over 70 years of age or otherwise extremely medically vulnerable to Covid-19, by each month in 2020, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the sheep welfare scheme into 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26464/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of submissions received in respect of the proposal for a protected geographical indication, PGI, application for beef; the number of submissions that were opposed to the PGI proposal; his plans to publish the submissions or a synopsis of same; his further plans for consideration of the submissions and to reflect the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I want to follow up on the point with regard to serial testing. I welcome the comment by Mr. Reid that it is useful and very beneficial because some utterances in the Dáil Chamber would suggest that perhaps serial testing is a novelty that we could do without. I want to talk in particular about the food processing sector because I am of the belief that at least some of the recent...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I want the figures because I have only five minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I did not. I asked one question. I asked the number of factories serial testing had been completed in last week and the number of people that involved.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry. I have very limited time. I have asked Mr. Reid a question. Nobody is disputing that the public health teams are doing great work. Could he please answer my question?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I asked for last week's figures.