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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work undertaken to commence a pilot scheme in 2020 modelled on the rural environment protection scheme; the estimated number of farmers that will participate in such a pilot scheme; the estimated funding to be allocated to the pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13431/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that will be eligible for the emergency beef fund scheme by county in tabular form; the criteria that will be applied to applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a scheme to support farmers that are affected by a shortage of straw in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13433/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he decided to exclude suckler beef farmers from the €50 million emergency beef fund; if he will publish the advice and analysis that led to this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13434/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Relations (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of his interactions with the European Commission regarding the ongoing free trade deal negotiations with New Zealand, particularly in relation to the tariff free sheep meat quotas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13435/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheepmeat Sector (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 607. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of lambs that were imported for processing in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13436/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 726. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with airlines to ensure that passengers here that had flights cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic receive refunds without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13446/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 725. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report of his interactions with an airline (details supplied) concerning the future of same and the protection of the Dublin based pilots at the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 777. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if parents that availed of subsidies under the national childcare scheme prior to Covid-19 closures will automatically qualify upon the reopening of childcare facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13438/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be implications on pension contributions for those workers that have availed of the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13441/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: We received a submission at 9:32 this morning on testing and tracing from the HSE. That submission is dated 16 June. Could the Business Committee do an examination of the reason it arrived so late? Was it related to the HSE or just a bureaucratic issue? Clearly, it is difficult to engage in questions to witnesses when receiving a document two minutes after the meeting has started....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I thank Dr. Henry. Recognising that meat plants have been a particular issue not just in Ireland but internationally, for obvious reasons, what level of focus is Dr. Henry's team keeping on meat factories to ensure that we do not see other spikes in cases within those settings?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: The prevalence of cases seems to have reduced in those settings. Is the work and monitoring by the HSE and the testing and tracing teams ongoing in meat factories?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: If that report could be provided to the committee, it would be useful. Regarding healthcare workers, Phil Ní Sheaghdha of the INMO made a very powerful presentation to the committee the other day. She made the comment, which stands up to scrutiny, that in Ireland the prevalence of Covid-19 infection among healthcare workers is the highest in the world. The Taoiseach has tried to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: That is not up for discussion at this point. On the basic tenet of the point made, does Dr. Henry accept that Ireland's percentage of cases in the healthcare sector is the highest in the world?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I have other questions. Does Dr. Henry accept that 32% is too high and that we really need to strive to improve that figure?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I ask Professor Mallon to give me opinion. As the committee heard on another occasion, a number of people have called for a change in the regulations to categorise instances of Covid-19 that were contracted in the workplace as notifiable occupational illness that would then be notified to the HSE. The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation could change the regulation at the stroke...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I come back to the HSE. I have less than a minute. We know what the capacity is or at least what we hope the capacity is. Does Dr. Henry have a figure for the highest number of daily tests that were performed throughout the pandemic and the equivalent weekly number? What were the highest numbers of tests carried out on any given day and in any given week?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I only have a number of seconds left. Do we have an analysis of the number of people that entered into healthcare settings, presumably without Covid-19, and then subsequently contracted the virus within those settings?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am asking for the number of people who entered hospitals or other healthcare settings without Covid-19 and who subsequently contracted the virus. I know one can never say for definite that those people did not have it going in but presuming that they did not, what would the numbers be?