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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: 635. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the minimum and maximum stocking rate for participation in the organic farming scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33155/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: 636. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered revising the National Organic Strategy 2019-2025 to align it with the EU Organic Action Plan of March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33156/21]

Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I want to clarify that Deputy Fitzmaurice wishes to speak in this section as well. Is he on the list?

Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, and the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, for being here. I commend and thank Deputy Cahill for introducing this Bill to the House. As a member of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I express my thanks to Deputy Cahill for his steady chairing of the committee. We do not always agree on everything, as I am sure the Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: We were meant to have the HSE before the committee before the summer break to discuss procurement, but it appears that will not now happen. In that context, it is worth highlighting that Beaumont appeared to lay the blame squarely on the shoulders of the HSE, stating that, aside from the remit to provide clinical care, there has historically been an "absence of an effective centralised...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: In the first instance, the committee should get an appraisal from Beaumont Hospital as to whether it thinks these issues have been addressed by HBS. Second, I understand what the Comptroller and Auditor General says about remit, but I think it would be useful if we were to write to all the other voluntary hospitals asking them for an overview of their procurement policies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I accept that entirely. I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am glad that RTÉ journalists are better at getting answers than their management is at giving them. Otherwise, the "Six One News" in the evening would last for about four minutes. It is unacceptable for a public service broadcaster, which is largely funded through the compulsory contributions of households, to evade benign and understandable questions from this committee. As Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Chairman made a number of points I wanted to make. The most recent figure I have to hand is €1.7 billion and rising in terms of the development of this hospital so when Mr. Watt says that this is about ensuring the delivery of a world-class healthcare facility, I would say by Christ, I hope so for that type of money. It is also becoming more evident by the month that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: First, it seems strange that GSOC has indicated it furnished its annual report to the Minister on 31 March and that the Minister, for one reason or another, has not yet decided to publish it. GSOC outlined the main aspects of the report in its correspondence, which is welcome, but it would be useful for the committee to write to the Department seeking clarification on when GSOC's annual...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I think it would be useful if the Comptroller and Auditor General's office could indicate when the 2020 financial statements will have been audited. If it is any time soon then I suggest that we include GSOC on the committee's work plan shortly after that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: Not now, no.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (29 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: 275. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has considered allowing retrospective posthumous registration on the foreign birth register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34440/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: 588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is committed to ensure that the upper limit pillar 1 CAP payment allowable for any single applicant should be set at €60,000 is an absolute figure and that there should not be loopholes or disregards applicable to such a figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34362/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: 589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the proposals he has made at EU level in relation to the upper limit pillar 1 CAP payment allowable for any single applicant should be set at €60,000; if he has sought to ensure that the final CAP will have the flexibility for this limit to be enacted at a national level should it not be enacted EU-wide; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: 590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it will be ensured that the CAP Strategic Plan is brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas for approval and amendment prior to being submitted to the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34364/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I also wish to raise the EU digital Covid certificate. In particular, I ask the Taoiseach to provide some much-needed clarity with regard to Irish citizens who were vaccinated in the North and to provide an assurance, if he can, that those people will be able to avail of the EU digital Covid certificate. Before this morning, I understood that there was clarity on this matter. I made...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: Perhaps the Taoiseach will have time to address the issue I raised earlier regarding the Covid passport. Just over 47 years ago in May 1974, 33 innocent people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. Those bombings were carried out by the Glenanne gang which included members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, UVF, MI5, the RUC and the Ulster Defence...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I wonder if the Taoiseach would give his opinion on whether he believes there is an inherent unfairness in the way that CAP funds are distributed in Ireland. Some beef barons, sheikhs and others can draw down hundreds of thousands of euro in CAP funds while most family farmers are expected to meet the same criteria on fractions of that funding. I ask that because it would be helpful for us...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thought the Acting Chairman was going to give me four minutes of Fine Gael time as well. I welcome the strong remarks by the Taoiseach, the Minister of State and other Government representatives on the actions of the Hungarian Government. As the previous speaker said, it is never too late to do right. It is, however, disappointing it took so long for the Irish Government to take a...