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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services Funding (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me in. I welcome the fact that the Minister for Health has tested negative for Covid and I hope his symptoms resolve themselves very quickly. I also hope that the speediness with which he received his test result - I do not begrudge him that; I think it is very important - becomes the hallmark by which all other tests are measured. My...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services Funding (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: The Minister of State has no way of knowing how frustrating his answer is. This issue dates back to the early 2000s, when the families of a group of young women with physical and sensory disabilities first sought for it to be addressed. Those young people had been cared for in their homes all their lives, but their parents were getting older. They approached the health authorities and the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services Funding (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: I wrote to the Minister only last week to suggest that he facilitate a meeting with me and officials from the HSE, Respond housing association and, if necessary, Monaghan County Council. There has been too much back and forth on this issue. Respond housing association has a vested interest in ensuring the building becomes operational because it currently has a building for which it is not...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: Unfortunately, it is a unilateral decision.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: Yes, there is, actually.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: I have asked the Taoiseach what his position is.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: For the record, I will quote the line again: "Fianna Fáil stands by its commitment that this project can only proceed-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: -----on the basis that the lines are placed underground".
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: What is the Taoiseach's position now?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: What is the Taoiseach going to do about it?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: I am asking what the Taoiseach is going to do about it in this State.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach is the Head of the Government.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: What is the Taoiseach's position today?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: A Cheann Comhairle, the Taoiseach purposely refused to answer the question. It undermines the legitimacy of promised legislation. That is disappointing.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: On the Taoiseach's party's website, I read the following line: “Fianna Fáil stands by its commitment that this project can only proceed on the basis that the lines are placed underground”. It is a line that was uttered by plenty of the Taoiseach's candidates in Cavan, Monaghan and Meath over the course of the most recent general election. I would like to ask him what is...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: The minister has the final say.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the activities of the shared island unit in his Department. [22612/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: 60. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the services provided at local hospitals, such as Monaghan hospital, in view of the additional pressures other centres will inevitably face in the coming period. [23657/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (15 Sep 2020)
Matt Carthy: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the transitionary period of the Common Agriculture Policy; the schemes that will remain operational; and his plans regarding convergence and other proposals for the period. [23967/20]