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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Information and Communications Technology (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer or Office of Government Procurement provide any advice to Government Departments or bodies under their aegis on whether future expenditure on software should include an application programming interface; if any such advice is provided by either office or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to her announcement that carers will receive entitlements and contributions towards an old age pension, the basis on which contributions will be awarded; the date from which such pensions will apply; if they will be backdated; if the payment rates will be aligned fully with the standard State pension (contributory);...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of current or previous students at a college (details supplied) who have been awarded a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46647/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he has taken to ensure that private colleges that are not eligible for SUSI make the public aware of this fact; the steps that he has taken to inform the public that students enrolled in private colleges may not be eligible for SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46648/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 452. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) will be given access to occupational therapy in County Monaghan as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46681/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2156 of 26 July 2022, the interest rates that are associated with each loan scheme funded by his Department through the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46633/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 897 of 5 July 2022, the amount allocated to Horse Racing Ireland from the horse and greyhound racing fund in each of the years 2008 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the amount of which that was for capital expenditure; the amount of which that was for current expenditure; the maximum allowable...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the existing Government targets with regard to the reduction in use of chemical pesticides; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46637/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 346 of 6 July 2022, the number of farmers availing of the nitrates derogation; the total number of cattle in the herds of those farmers; the total hectarage on which basic payment was claimed, that is grassland per county in 2020, in tabular form. [46638/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish and act upon the review completed in November 2021 into the current banding model and income limits applicable to local authorities regarding housing supports. [47347/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The people who are on social housing waiting lists do not want to hear about reports or promises. They want to see the Government take action that has been long-promised in respect of income limit thresholds. The income limits were introduced, in my view, as a measure simply to reduce the waiting lists. In the interim, they have caused undue hardship to those people who are waiting for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I have lost count of the number of couples I have been working with who have been removed from the housing waiting lists because they exceeded limits by just a couple of hundred euro in some instances. The system as it applies to County Monaghan is designed so that any couple of which a single party is working will not make it onto the social housing waiting list. The income limit for...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The witnesses have been comprehensive in their responses and, therefore, I do not have much to follow up on. We engaged with the witnesses in advance of the meeting about preparing a report on the approach the committee believed the Government should take. Following that and the heads of the Bill that we have seen, what is their analysis of the scope Government has to address concerns?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Department disputes that. It told us that its position is that legislation cannot be retrospectively amended to do precisely as Mr. Doyle said. It has been a bone of contention throughout this. The Department will cite advice from the Attorney General. How do we square that circle with what the Department is telling us compared with Mr. Doyle's position? I presume his position is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The reason this is even a question is because there was a failure on the part of the Department, in the first instance, to ensure that the original legislation and its implementation was fit for purpose and that it would resolve this. Mr. Doyle knows that there has been a fierce dispute between those two countering positions. What is the basis for the resistance? Some would argue that even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I ask Mr. Doyle to deal with the question I asked. Why is that resistance there? What is the rationale for the reluctance to follow the ICOS legal advice as opposed to other advice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Department has indicated that mitigations have been put in place to resolve the issues. Mr Doyle spoke about a 90% reduction in sales of those products covered by the current regulations. If that were to be replicated in the new regulations which I believe are due to come into force on 1 January-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Apologies, 1 December. What would that mean for the co-ops? Could the Department's approach of mitigations be strengthened to resolve the large drift away from co-ops to vets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is that live at the moment?