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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: He was not asked that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is the Fianna Fáil position. It is good to know.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach should tell his party Deputies who are running around the rural communities saying something else.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: There are two sides to every argument.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Deputies are getting very frustrated over there.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The committee should not have to hunt down public representatives.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: For the purposes of clarification, let me be clear that Sinn Féin supports measures that protect public health. We support measures that protect our environment and deliver climate action. Where we differ from the Government is that we insist that such measures are fair, workable and credible, concepts that are alien to this coalition. In fact, at the heart of this Government's...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will have to revise a number of my remarks because I had very much hoped I would be having a discussion with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine this evening. Of course, that is no disrespect to the Minister of State. One of the fundamental problems I had with the Minister's approach to the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, strategic plan is that he refused even to indulge...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State for that, but I could have sent the Minister an email with the questions. I would have thought that the purpose of Topical Issue debates is that we could have a debate on a matter such as this. If the Minister is unavoidably absent, then we accept that. In fairness to the Minister, he is one of the better Cabinet Ministers at attending for Topical Issue...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Rural Independent Group for bringing this motion to the floor and allowing us have an opportunity to discuss carbon tax. I was very interested to listen to the Minister of State's response. It was useful also to be able to read it and the justification for the carbon tax. The term "behavioural change" is not used once. When the carbon tax was introduced behavioural change was...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: At a recent meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach I challenged the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, in respect of agri-diesel and the fact that the Government had announced, to much fanfare, a meagre 2 cent reduction in the cost of agri-diesel but intended, on 1 May, to increase it again. The Minister justified that move but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Sincere thanks to our guests for being here. They are bringing us a very important perspective on equine welfare in the broadest sense. We spend a lot more time than I would ever have envisaged at this committee talking about horses, from all different perspectives. It would be useful, if the opportunity ever arose, for the committee to visit one of the farms because often it is only when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Going back to my question then, who should be the lead partner on this? A lot of the problems we are talking about, including the funding problem, stem from the fact that different bodies can pass the problem on to somebody else and not take responsibility. Is it the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the local authorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: There is a programme for Government commitment to double the funding within two years. We are past that now for animal welfare organisations. I take it the funding for My Lovely Horse Rescue has not doubled in the past-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: -----two years. I happened to be in the Dáil yesterday when Deputies Mark Ward and Gino Kenny raised a Topical Issue matter on the Clondalkin Equine Club, which I have an interest in because I got an opportunity to visit it some time ago. It is an example of best practice, where the local authority, the Department and the local community came together with horse owners in an urban...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Chairman might be relieved to know that I have to run off to speak in the Chamber shortly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am only saying what the Chair is thinking. I will try to be as brief as possible. The overwhelming sense I get when dealing with this issue is that there is a lack of enthusiasm and certainly a lack of drive, which is bewildering, considering many commentators suggest that this could be an important crop for diversification, farm incomes and climate action. Everything that has been done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Would the Department consider a move to hemp to be environmentally positive for the different sectors of livestock, dairy and tillage? Is such a move environmentally positive in each instance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Where does the Department consider that evidence coming from? Is it Teagasc, or does Mr. Moloney see a role for the Department to explore these matters at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: From the Department's perspective, does it consider-----