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Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: While there are a lot of failures this Government is overseeing, the failures in disability services are probably the single greatest failure. Like all the other failures, what we get from the Taoiseach is soundbites rather than solutions. My experience of dealing with families in Monaghan is a familiar story, from listening to other Deputies. Families are waiting far too long for an...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: I recall in November 2016 that I was an MEP when the Fine Gael Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, attended the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee. I asked him about the so-called double Irish, one of the many practices that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had created to allow the wealthiest corporations in the world avoid paying their taxes. The scheme at...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: That is crazy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: As we sit here, bombs are exploding across Lebanon. They are exploding in supermarkets, offices and cars and they are indiscriminate in the taking and injuring of life. This is clearly a strategic move on the part of the Israeli regime that is designed to escalate the conflict more widely and, crucially from its perspective, to bring the United States directly into the conflict. I can only...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: Last October, I raised with the Taoiseach’s Fianna Fáil predecessor the case of a young boy in Castleblayney who was seriously injured in a football match and had to wait three hours before an ambulance arrived. The then Tánaiste informed the House that he could not understand why it would take so long but set out very clearly that things were improving and all the great...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 28.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current status of the opening of an embassy in Tehran; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34200/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 32.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he gave approval for the flyover over Dublin of three US military Osprey aircraft on 26 August 2022; whether his Department carried out a safety assessment in advance of this flyover; if such approvals will be reviewed considering subsequent high-profile fatal crashes involving similar Osprey aircraft; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 33.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if approval has been sought for a US military aircraft flyover over Dublin in conjunction with US college football matches to be played on 23, 24 and 28 August 2024; the procedure for dealing with such requests; whether a safety assessment forms part of such procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34297/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 41.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position in relation to draft articles for a treaty on crimes against humanity submitted by the International Law Commission to the United Nation's Sixth Committee for consideration; if he supports the inclusion of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 42.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average processing time for applications to the foreign birth register; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34530/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 150.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the LÉ Aoibhinn will be fully operationally deployed; the number of crew that will be required for each deployment; the seas that it will be deployed in; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34188/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 151.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the LÉ Gobnait will be fully operationally deployed; the number of crew that will be required for each deployment; the seas that it will be deployed in; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34189/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 152.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of applications or expressions of interest to join the Reserve Defence Force received in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and the number of members formally inducted in each period[34416/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 153.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of retirements and discharges from each branch of the Defence Forces to date in 2024; the numbers therein whereby members paid for an early discharge, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34417/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 340.To ask the Minister for Finance the current rates of VRT that are applied to cars being imported into the State; if he proposes to review the application of this tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34551/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 555.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allocate DEIS status to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 556.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE SNAs that will be allocated to a school (details supplied), in the coming academic year; if she will consider increasing the SNA allocation to this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34463/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 561.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 314 of 30 April 2024, the current status regarding the proposed permanent extension at a school (details supplied); if a review of the stage 2A addendum report has been completed; when this project will move to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34516/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 607.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 9 April 2024, the status of an application to build an extension to a school (details supplied) for the provision of two permanent ASD class units and classroom; the next steps to be completed in this project; the expected timeframe for completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34850/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 939.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the reintroduction of the household benefits package for carers who do not live with the person they care for, which was scrapped in 2012 for new carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34193/24]