Results 3,861-3,880 of 10,862 for speaker:Matt Carthy
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for commissioning an independent expert to work with all suppliers to ascertain the level of horticultural peat stocks available to growers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4493/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the intended timeline to commission experts on planning to provide free advice to those wishing to achieve regulatory compliance for the extraction of horticultural peat on sub-30 hectare bogs for supply to the domestic horticulture industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4494/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consideration that has been given to providing supports to the seed potato sector due to issues arising from Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4542/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to further invest in the seed potato sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4549/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 806 of 14 December 2021, if his Department considered dedicated supports for small dairy farmers given that 1,888 or 12% of dairy farms have a family farm income of less than €20,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4543/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 322 of 20 January 2022, the appropriate solutions to the increased input costs and sustained nature of the difficulties being experienced on the pigment sector that he advocated to be rapidly deployed at the recent European Union Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in securing certified seed potato for the 2022 and subsequent planting seasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4545/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the existing targets for seed potato production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4547/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of seed potato imported by country in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4546/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected increased production of the rooster variety of seed potato arising from that variety no longer having plant breeder rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4548/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of the exploration of pathways to encourage earlier finishing of beef animals as per action 315 of the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4891/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average age of beef cattle slaughtered by quarter and by year in each of the years 2010 to date in tabular form. [4892/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms on which poultry was culled arising from recent outbreak of bird flu by county; if compensation has been paid to the farmers affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4893/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (1 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: 858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the reported kill numbers at European Union approved slaughter plants originating in controlled finishing units represent exact or estimated figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4896/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: We remember the Government's fanfare at major launches such as Our Rural Future, the shared island initiative and the ten launches for the NDP. The lofty words spoken at those launches about commitment to rural, regional and all-Ireland development actually count for very little when compared with the failure to deliver the infrastructure projects our regions require. We recently learned...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: I am prone to delivery.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: This project.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: This is the Clontibret to the Border project.
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: Talking about our health services, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the pay for the Secretary General of the Department of Health went up yesterday by €3,000. That is on top of the increase last November of €3,000. That is on top of the additional €81,000 on which the Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy Ryan, and the Tánaiste collectively agreed, without any...
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)
Matt Carthy: It needs to be transparent-----