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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: When we discuss hemp, it is never uninteresting. There is a great deal of work for the committee in this. It is not a question of forcing anyone to move from another sector into hemp growing. Rather, it complements many other sectors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: It could be the difference between someone being a part-time and full-time farmer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is that for food?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: No canvassing at committee meetings.

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Ba mhaith liom an rún seo a mholadh chuig an Dáil. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Cullinane as ucht an rúin a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. There are now 1.34 million people in the State on health waiting lists. Some 893,000 of those are on hospital waiting lists. It is an absolute scandal that has been decades in the making. It is the result of mismanagement,...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Supports (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I support Deputy Pringle's call for our fishing communities to be supported through the Brexit adjustment reserve fund. Farming families in Ireland were one of the poster boys for the potentially devastating impacts of Brexit and, therefore, in the outworking of this fund, which is welcome, they need to be supported. Up to now, the only element within the agrifood sector that has been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of instances in which his Department has set aside existing guidance as to remuneration rates for civil servants or employees of State-funded bodies regarding persons earning more than €120,000 per annum since February 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11299/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: In how many instances since February 2020 has the Minister's Department set aside the existing guidance on remuneration rates for civil servants or employees of State-funded bodies regarding persons earning more than €120,000?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Perhaps the Minister will use his remaining minute to answer the question I put to him in the first instance. I asked about the number of instances in which he has set aside the existing guidelines. We welcome the fact new measures will be put in place, but in my work as a member of both the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if changes have occurred to the manner in which the National Parks and Wildlife Service provides notifications to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine relating to actions requiring consent as they relate to TAMS applications; if the staff, role or unit within the National Parks and Wildlife Service which...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Israel operates an apartheid regime. The report by Amnesty International, which is subtitled “a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity”, calls for Israel to be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people. The obvious question is who will hold Israel accountable. It should be said that the Irish position is much...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of external reports commissioned in 2021; the cost of each; the external reports that were received by his Department in 2021; when such reports were or are expected to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11364/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for delays in TAMS applications for Natura and hill farmers; the steps he has taken to alleviate the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11365/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 30 November 2021, the financial support that has been provided to the voluntary national Johne's disease control programme in each of the years 2012 to date in tabular form; the specified purpose for which this support is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has a strategy or policy with regard to the eradication of Johne’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11410/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 758 of 30 November 2021, the counties in which the referenced nine carcases diagnosed with Johne’s disease originated from; the year they were identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11411/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 853. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2024 of 19 January 2022, the reason that an organic farming scheme payment has not issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected costs relating to advisers and consultants a farmer is expected to incur in the process of taking part in the Agri-Environment Climate Measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11413/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a rail line through County Monaghan will be considered as a part of the strategic rail review. [11297/22]