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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: How much is going to local authorities as opposed to AHBs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: That €1.5 billion is predominantly going to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: How many new local authority houses will be provided by the end of the year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I support Deputy Catherine Murphy on that final point. On point No. 6, we asked who had decided not to provide us with the most up-to-date national children's hospital report indicating the status of that particular project. The response is essentially that no single organisation chose not to furnish it to us. It was a collective decision of the board and the Department. This is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Separately, on the claims, as I say, I cannot find where this is in the document but as I see it, the claims that are now lodged-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: -----number 984 and are valued at €542 million. The last estimate in terms of the value of claims that I saw was in November and they were valued at €514 million at that point. There is an increase already of €30 million in the value of the claims that have been submitted by the contractor. It would be useful for us to get clarification as to whether those claims are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will wait until then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am satisfied that we dealt with that last week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Chairman. I believe the Comptroller and Auditor General’s approach is the correct one. It is in the public interest and is a matter of public concern that warrants a hearing of this committee with both the HSE and the Department of Health officials in place. There have been long-standing concerns with regard to the effectiveness of health spending and whether it delivers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank all our guests for being here. It is good to see them back in the committee room again. I have a number of questions. I will deal with them individually in case we run out of time. Thankfully, a couple have already been asked. The first is in respect of the TB forum and its subcommittees. Conscious that the Department has set it up in lights, in effect, as the source of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Who is responsible for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is the delay a recruitment delay or a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Do any other representatives want to comment? Is that a fair reflection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will come to financing in a minute. One of the points Mr. McCabe made was the target to eradicate TB by 2030 is ambitious. Many farmers question the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: My point was not on finance, but go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: As we are on funding and because I do not think we will get away from it, are the representatives satisfied that the budget as it stands is being expended effectively? In other words, in respect of the Department element and what it is putting forward - we can argue about the breakdown - is it spending that in the most effective manner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry. I get that point, which is an important one, but the question I am trying to get to the heart of is about the money being provided by the Department, specifically. References were made to the wildlife programme and other elements. Is that being spent as best it could, even if it remained static? Is there wastage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is an important point. I wish to address Mr. Keane on the broader question but also on a question that I was going to put to Mr. McCabe. Anyone can answer it, actually. Is anyone who is on this call or in the room confident that, on our current trajectory, the target of eliminating TB by 2030 will be achieved? Can it be achieved at all without a cattle vaccination programme that works?