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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be mandatory professional forester involvement in the small-scale tree planting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47769/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected allocation under the targeted agriculture modernisation schemes for solar equipment for the period 2023 to 2027, as per his indicative allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47770/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is that as good as the Taoiseach is getting?

Housing for All Update: Statements (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Record house prices, record rent costs, record and growing levels of homelessness and the lowest home ownership rates in Ireland for generations; whatever spin the Minister wants to put on it, that is the legacy of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil housing policies in action. Not content with creating a financial crash precipitated by a property bubble, they somehow managed to emerge from that...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The twisted logic behind the decisions of this Government can often be mind-boggling but the defence of the concrete block levy we have just heard would send the head spinning. In the midst of a housing crisis that has merged with an inflationary crisis the Government is proposing a measure that will make houses more expensive. It has essentially proposed a defective funding mechanism to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Agriculture Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding that has been allocated from the carbon tax to the agricultural sector to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48263/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the allocations provided to Monaghan County Council for flood alleviation measures in each of the years since 2017 to date. [48264/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Union (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected contribution of the State to the European Multi-annual Financial Framework in each of the years 2023 to 2027; the projected receipts by specific programmes (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48309/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of participants in the National Parks and Wildlife Service Farm Plan scheme for each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the average number of hectares and the average payment by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48314/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Environmental Protection Agency is compiling an indicators report of water quality in 2021; the expected publication date of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48315/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the new vaccine for shingles is not available on the medical card or the drug payments scheme; if he will review this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48130/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of parameters letters sent to Horse Racing Ireland following the Houses of the Oireachtas granting approval of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund for the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48311/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date that finalised details of the new forestry programme were shared with the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; if either Department awaits further information from his Department on the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of co-financing provided by the State in relation to funding from the European Multiannual Financial Framework provided in each year since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48313/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach will be aware that the A5-N2 road artery has been raised on numerous occasions in all-Ireland discussions and has been included in several national development plans and other projects. This year, however, all funding for the section of the N2 from Clontibret to the Border was removed and works stalled. I ask the Taoiseach to assure the House that he will use his position to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I asked about the section of the N2 from Clontibret to the Border.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The road funding for the N2 from Clontibret to the Border was pulled this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I apologise in advance to our guest that I have another engagement I need to go to. The opening statements and the subsequent answers we have heard have been very comprehensive. I have two brief questions. The first is in respect of the evidence we have now heard from the co-op sector, the licensed merchants sector and the pharmacy sector in that the sales of veterinary medical products...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will cut across Mr. O'Shea because I am going to end up not getting an answer to an important question. Can I ask the IPU, in terms of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, whether that is something it has considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I want to refer to an aspect of the ILMA’s opening statement which spoke about a fresh approach and a new legal opinion that may resolve the problem and that has been submitted to the Department for consideration. Could its representatives briefly outline how that would work in practice and how it would differentiate from the current heads of the Bill that we have seen?