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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle culled in each of the years 2015 to 2019 due to tuberculosis for which compensation was payable under the eradication programme by county in tabular form. [15712/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Legislation (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe for introducing legislation to appoint a national food ombudsman. [15713/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe to introduce legislation with regard to the Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme. [15714/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the position of Ireland in negotiating the future of the CAP takes into consideration the need for local variance within individual states in CAP guidelines to help ensure biodiversity. [15715/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if upcoming tranches of TAMS will include provision for financial supports towards the restoration of derelict farmhouses and other buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15716/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of poultry flocks impacted by an outbreak of low pathogenic avian influenza in 2020 by county, that will benefit from the one-off financial support scheme announced by him in tabular form; the amount that will be provided in total and on average to each farmer; the basis on which the funds will be distributed; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Site Acquisitions (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is in discussions or the process of securing additional property for sale or lease in Dublin city at present; the details of such proposals or discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15718/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 985. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HIQA inspectors that have received training in infection control per region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15705/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 986. To ask the Minister for Health if it is mandatory for HIQA inspections of nursing homes to include infection inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15706/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 988. To ask the Minister for Health the average time for which HIQA inspection teams remain on site during nursing home inspections; if there is a maximum time limit ascribed to inspection teams in these instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15708/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 987. To ask the Minister for Health the number of protected disclosures made by HIQA employees in each year since 2015 and to date 2020; the number of those staff that made protected disclosures that are working on a full-time basis with HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15707/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1257. To ask the Minister for Health if those women who donate breast milk for use by the health services are now required to undertake a blood test; if the cost of such blood tests are or will covered by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15702/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1258. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commission an examination into the potential for restoring accident and emergency services at Monaghan hospital in view of the pressures evident at Cavan and Drogheda, particularly with Covid-19 restrictions remaining in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15703/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1259. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to appointing a representative from the Mental Health Commission onto the National Public Health Emergency Team expert group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15704/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: EU Regulations (16 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this item, which might be described as a niche issue but potentially affects tens of thousands of people across the country. As the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, may be aware, a vote was supposed to take place today at the European committee on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals, known as the REACH...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: EU Regulations (16 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: Beidh nóiméad amháin agam agus nóiméad ag an Teachta Clarke. What the Minister of State has outlined would probably make sense were it the case that some consultation had taken place. The Government cannot take anything other than outright opposition to this regulation prior to consultation with those people who will be affected by it. As is the case with any...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: The submission and the evidence we have heard from the Irish Cancer Society is probably the most concerning that has come before the committee to date because, essentially, the premise of it is that in the efforts to save lives from Covid-19, other patients' lives have been put at risk. Following on from Ms Morrogh's previous responses, I think she indicated to my colleague, Deputy...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: I apologise for cutting across Ms Morrogh but the responses required are contained within her submission. Putting measures in place that will save the lives of those who go through the trauma of a cancer diagnosis will be a significant test for the new Government. I have a brief question for the IMO. It has outlined very effectively some of the deficiencies within our services, but I...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: I have one very short follow-up question. I come from County Monaghan, which had a very well-developed local hospital from which services were removed. Should those hospitals be utilised and some of those services be restored to ease the pressure on other centres?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach has returned from Brussels with a deal that could spell the end for many of our family farms. The new EU budget will see a 9% cut in the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, and this at a period when our farmers need more support, not less. It is at a time when farmers are under increasing pressures around prices. It is at a time when the detail we have on the Common Agricultural...