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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is that not a failure on the part of NBI?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In the first instance, we should welcome the fact that there has been some movement and that some of the money that was lost to the taxpayer has been recouped. The Comptroller and Auditor General should be commended on highlighting this issue, as well as the members of the previous committee and this current committee, who have been dogged in pursuing the issue. At the end of the day, there...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I support the proposal that the committee write to the HSE. The correspondent makes what I would consider to be very serious allegations that we, as a committee, must take seriously. The person states that it was known to the Department of Health that some section 38 and 39 organisations were insolvent. In the first instance, it is important that we get whatever evidence for that is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Any other business.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes. Like myself and others, I am sure that the Chair will have been surprised to read in this morning's Irish Independentabout the latest fiasco in which An Bord Pleanála has found itself. Ironically, delays in strategic housing development, SHD, applications are leading to fines being imposed on An Bord Pleanála. We are told that they are now in the region of €1 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I do not know whether we have decided to invite An Bord Pleanála to appear before us again. Is a meeting on our work programme?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: So many issues have arisen since it was last before us that we should try to expedite another meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In the meantime, I suggest that we write to seek an explanation for the fines and to see whether an additional outlay is expected. In previous engagements, we have spoken about the amount of money that has been lost by An Bord Pleanála in terms of judicial reviews and other legal actions. Now we find that a further €1 million is being expended because of its failure to deal with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Every time the board does not deal with an SHD application within the specified timeframe, the developer gets €10,000 from it. This situation is reaching the point where the entire process is insulting to the Irish people.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In the meantime, may I propose that we write to An Bord Pleanála to ask for a written briefing on this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: With the Chair's indulgence, I will have a bit of a rant. We are in danger of this committee becoming a glorified group therapy support forum in that members are listening to problems we have heard many times and to concerns we all share, while the people and Departments that can assist in resolving those concerns are refusing to engage. It is absolutely scandalous. I stand to be corrected...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I genuinely think this is a very serious matter. As I said to the Chair on countless occasions, my primary reason for having an interest in this matter is because the mushroom sector in particular has provided a lifeline to a part of my constituency that had virtually no other economic activity and had become a world leader in that sector. It is not without its faults. Nobody is suggesting...

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending. I have not been a Member of this House for very long but I imagine this is a fairly unique scenario in that a Minister of State is saying to a committee that it should proceed with pre-legislative scrutiny of a Bill whose precise outcome we do not know. As both members who spoke before me indicated, one very pertinent point has...

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I respectfully disagree it is a moot point. Rather, I think it is a central point in how we have come to-----

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: -----where we are. One of two things has happened. I might outline a scenario for the Minister of State. A derogation was provided for in the regulations and that derogation, we are now told, is null and void because it was not implemented properly, if it is the case responsible persons were not prescribing. In my view, however, they were, and I think anybody who has knowledge of the...

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Before the officials come in on this, this is a political charge but it is against the Department in terms of the structure because the criteria changed because we allowed it to change. Therein lies the problem. Nobody seemed to see it or, if they did, they kept it to themselves. I would like to know which it is. I do not know if I will ever be able to find the answer to that. The...

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes. I refer to the regulations that are currently being applied.

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Okay, forget the comparison between the two. In respect of the products to which the regulations apply and that previously did not, within three of the four sectors that dispensed them we are told that sales have reduced by between 60% and 90%. Do we have information as to whether the overall sales have reduced to anything close to that?

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: There are two linear arguments there. One is that the information for a full year is not available because the full year has not passed. The second point is that even if it did, we would not have it. Which is it?

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) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will come to that in a moment. Dr. Corkery talked about the assessment of risk of AMR in respect of prescribing. Let us forget about the legalities for a moment but address the practice. Does he believe that responsible persons, as have been identified in the licensed merchants sector, for example, have the capacity to assess-----