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Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: How will the review be monitored to ensure it is a full audit? What oversight will there be? Will this be entirely operated or managed by the HSE? Will the Department have a role? Will there be outside appraisal of the work of the audit?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I again seek clarification that this will include all children who have come through CAMHS. Is it envisaged there will be oversight by the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: To clarify, it is not specific. I presume the 50 cases that will be assessed will be selected randomly. They will go beyond ADHD.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank Ms O'Connor.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: On the Children's Health Ireland budget and the exception that it accounts for the cost of retirement benefit analysis only as pensions become payable, we get this in a lot of the statements and audit opinions for health bodies. Will the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General give a view as to whether there are moves to change that practice? Would it be beneficial to do so? Is there...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is it in order for this committee to invite Eir before it?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the National University of Ireland, Galway is expected to complete its work analysing responses to the consultation on the new draft specifications for leaving certificate Irish; if the analysis will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12503/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the concerns of an association (details supplied) regarding the leaving certificate syllabus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12504/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the witnesses for their very interesting presentations. I must admit that, like Senator Paul Daly, I am not clear on how it all works. I wish to have a few points clarified for my own understanding. Under the ECJ ruling, GMO products are largely banned across the EU but there are some exceptions, of which Spain is the most notable. Where does CRISPR fit in? Is the ruling of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry to interrupt Dr. McLoughlin but for clarification, are Spain and Portugal operating under a derogation or do those particular GMO products have a licence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: They are licensed across the EU. It just happens that they are the countries that use it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Going back to my original question, is the CRISPR technology being used anywhere in the EU at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: The great anomaly with GMO products is that goods produced from practices and products that are banned in the EU are permitted to be imported, which is an inherently unfair system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: If we are going to ban a practice, we should ban the importation of products for which the practice is used as well. Otherwise, we are putting the likes of our grain growers at a distinct disadvantage. Then, when there is an emergency, we ask why we do not have more of them. That issue needs to be addressed. In terms of CRISPR technology, does the EU also allow the importation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: To mask my ignorance and for the layperson in the audience at home, I want to ask a question that has already been asked. What is the biggest distinction between GMO and CRISPR in terms of the specifics? I understood that one technique involved two different organisms, but Dr. McLoughlin is saying that CRISPR could also use two organisms. What is the biggest distinction in terms of process...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: How does that work in practice? How is that done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: To be quite honest, it is at times like this that I wish I had paid more attention in biology class. In fairness, Dr. Badmi makes is sound very simple. It is just that I am not fully sure if it has sunk in yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I get that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Perhaps Dr. Harrison wants to come in on this. The obvious concern, which is the one that is raised most often, both in terms of the older GMO technology, as it has been described, but it will apply equally here, is that changes made to one crop might have an unforeseen implication either for other crops, biodiversity, climate or something else. There could be some knock-on consequence for...