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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to December 2020 to expand the LESS scheme to allow contractors to apply; his further plans or to allow farmers to avail of the grant if they employ a licensed contractor using LESS equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20756/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available under the LESS scheme in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the amount of funding drawn down by person and county in tabular form. [20755/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding made available under the BEAM scheme to date; and the amount drawn down by county and year in tabular form. [20757/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work that has been completed with regard to the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030; if materials, correspondence, and reports relating to the matter will be provided; if maps relating to proposed SACs and SPAs will be provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20759/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainable Development Goals (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the commitment of Ireland to the sustainable development goals will be reflected in the Strategy and Work Plans 2020-2025 of his Department; the way in which progress towards achieving the SDGs will be monitored and reported annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20760/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licenses applied for in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, by quarter and by county; if the applications were successful or unsuccessful; the number of initial applications appealed; if the appeals were successful or unsuccessful; the number of objections to such licences; the county from...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the considerations he has given with regard to the introduction of charges for felling licence application; if materials, reports, briefings and correspondence relating to the matter will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20762/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1227. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 13 May 2020, if the reason a person (details supplied) experienced a delay between providing a cervical screening sample on 22 November 2018 and receiving a positive cancer diagnosis based on that sample on 25 October 2019 will be examined in view of the fact the HSE has not provided a response; the reason for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: The Chairman might give me two minutes extra during the next session-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: -----in recognition of that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: It would have been appropriate had Meat Industry Ireland been a part of this session. I do not know whether there was a particular reason for that not happening.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: I accept that, but this would have been a more appropriate session. Notwithstanding that, I have a number of questions. In light of the limited time, I ask that witnesses be brief. There was considerable discussion about how Covid-19 was not a notifiable illness and the apparent lack of urgency or even desire on the part of the HSA for it to become so. Earlier, the Government parties...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: I thank Ms King. I might ask Mr. Ennis to take my next couple of questions, but since they are broad, other witnesses may wish to contribute. We have had a conversation about workers, employment contracts and the seeming lack of transparency. Does that lack of transparency, which pervades the meat industry, have an impact on the State's ability to prepare adequately for issues relating to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: Why would a company decide to be unlimited, which I understand is the case throughout almost the entire food industry, as opposed to limited in its structure?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: The Chairman will recall how, during the factory protests last year, farmers strongly lamented the lack of transparency in the sector. We have heard today about some of the focus being placed on retailers or others in terms of who is the cause. One of the witnesses suggested there was an issue pertaining to turnover being cited as opposed to profits, which might be very different. In most...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: Could Mr. Ennis or any of the witnesses indicate why any company would operate under such a structure?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: All of the companies are involved.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: This is all publicly available information I am citing and I am open to be corrected if any of the entities in question wish to do so.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: For example, Carroll Cuisine is essentially owned by a Luxembourg holding company. If we are to learn anything from these cases and the situation highlighted as a result of Covid-19, we need to move to a point where there is transparency and accountability.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Matt Carthy: This was deemed an essential service. These workers and companies were operating at a time when many other companies could not operate under law. It beggars belief that somebody who would be described as an essential worker during a global pandemic would be earning €10.10 an hour. How does that make sense? That is my final question to the witnesses.