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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It would be appropriate for us to write to the Department to ask if it has the intention to do that. On the Regulator of the National Lottery, I think we touched previously on this issue in respect of the pensions and that there is a liability of €3.2 million in terms of pensions. I presume that is accruing on an annual basis?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What would the standard practice usually be in those instances?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What does it mean when Mr. McCarthy draws attention to something but gives a clear audit opinion? What responsibility is there then or is there an added responsibility due to the fact that he has flagged that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It would be useful if the committee got a note from the Department about what it considers to be the solution to this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I agree with that entirely. There is a lot of talk about learning lessons. Every Department that comes before the committee is learning lessons from some previous debacle, yet new debacles are always beginning. None of those is bigger than that relating to the national children's hospital. At some point, someone - whether it is this committee or someone else - will need to look at how we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will make another point. Deputy Burke mentioned that construction inflation has increased dramatically. We hope since most of the building work has been completed although the contract itself burdens the entire cost of any inflation over 4% on one side. It is mind boggling how so many people looking at a contract could not see a danger in that When we first raised it which is not that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The difference is that in that case, that percentage was built in to the original contract. What happened here was that 4% in construction inflation was built into the original contract with a proviso that everything above that, regardless of what it was, would be borne by one side. How it works with social housing projects, as we know, is that if costs go beyond what could have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I understand the time pressures we are under, but this is an issue the committee will have to return to. It has wide implications. The members will be aware that I have raised this issue and used the Lough Funshinagh farmers as an example. This is precisely the type of situation for which the force majeureprovision is included in the Common Agricultural Policy. To me, it is an absolute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Chair, it is a secondary point but can we agree to write to the Minister, Deputy McConalogue in respect of force majeurefor the CAP payments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank our guests for attending. The topic, a vision for the future of Irish farming, did not really lend itself to an hour long meeting as there are so many issues and permutations and factors that need to be considered as to whether Irish farming has a future at all, particularly in terms of the family farm model. Even the debate we have had thus far this evening shows that this is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That comes to the crux of the issues we are going to face. I am sure there would be quite a reaction from other farming organisations to any proposals to restrict the saleability of a person's private property. I am struck by the opening statement of the witness where the limited availability of land is mentioned. The statement also addressed that some schemes for moving land from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The point I was also making was that we have not had reduction policies. In fact, food production has increased but so too has the number of farmers. That is the point that I would like the witnesses to address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: This is a valuable debate because there are contradictions in probably what we all say. Mr. Keane quite rightly made the case that farming should not be restricted to the sons and daughters of existing farmers if it is to have a future. Every sector needs new people coming in. He spoke quite rightly about the fact that there are three and four generations being supported by individual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will follow up on some points Deputy Cowen was pursuing. The first is to comment that the North is in line with EU regulations and is compliant with EU veterinary medical products regulations because they avail of the derogation contained within those because their equivalent of responsible persons have had the historical right to prescribe and, therefore, it fits in. The difficulty is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That would be the implication of the witnesses' evidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am conscious of the time and that other members need to come in, so may I ask what Mr. Geraghty expects to be the overall reduction in percentage terms in the sale of the products that would fall under this regulation once it is brought in? For instance where we were last year in percentage terms compared with where we may be next year

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Geraghty think it would be greater than 20%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Geraghty believe that will happen from day one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In terms of products that have already been regulated from the beginning of this year, would Mr. Geraghty have evidence that sales have reduced by about 20%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Geraghty have those data?