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Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Sports Funding (17 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: 15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 1 October 2020, if the referenced review of the largescale sports infrastructure fund has been completed and the intended timeframe in which she intends to reopen the fund to facilitate new applications from local authorities for funds in support of constructing new swimming pools....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an application from Cavan Monaghan ETB in respect of urgently needed additional accommodation for a college (details supplied) is processed speedily to allow for the new modular buildings to be available at the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56772/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank our guests again, particularly those we have seen several times over the past few weeks, for making the effort to be here. I better disclose that I am a member of the Committee of Public Accounts. To analyse the report of that committee, you have to assess how it approaches these things. It does not deal with policy; it deals very much with expenditure and value for money....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: I can only report what I heard. Is there a mechanism or some form of international experience the witnesses can point to whereby a deer population has been successfully managed through state agencies in conjunction, I presume, with game clubs and others that would need to be involved? Is there are view that we can reach a point where TB can be eradicated? Obviously, we hope that there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: In terms of the engagement of the Minister of State, has there been any-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: At any stage has the Minister of State's Department suggested to that Department that perhaps it should engage with the committee on this matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: Has the Minister of State suggested to the Minister that perhaps it would be useful-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Minister of State is coming in here and taking the flak for something that by her own admission crosses three Departments. She is being asked questions on some areas on which she cannot provide the answers. I have to say if it were me, and most people would probably be the same, I would tell the person who does have the answers to come here and answer the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: What engagement has the Minister of State had on this issue with Deputy Malcolm Noonan, Minister of State in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: Has the Minister of State met the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: Please do not be facetious. I am asking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: Allow me to finish please. I am trying to get a sense as to the interdepartmental workings on this issue. I made a charge at the previous meeting. What has happened over recent months is that the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications have directed this committee, and individual members through responses to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: With regard to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, is this a matter that is entirely under the remit of the Minister of State or does the senior Minister engage in any of the meetings that happen at ministerial level on these matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: To remind the Minister of State, the question I asked was to elaborate on what interaction the senior Minister, Deputy McConalogue has with her on this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does he approve of the approach that the Minister has taken up to this point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: The approach the Minister of State outlined in her opening statement today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Minister of State does not need to elaborate. The answer is that at this stage the Minister of State accepts this point. Does the Minister of State accept that in order to access horticultural peat some stakeholders will be required to import peat and are importing peat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Minister of State raised the exportation of peat from the State. In July, she said that we are still net exporters and that "... maybe there is some engagement there that we should be doing with those exporters asking them to maybe not export and to keep it in this country to secure the horticultural sector here". How many of those engagements has the Minister of State had since July?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is not the impression she gave during oral debates.