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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: As opposed to this EU regulation, would anything prevent the Government simply moving ahead and adopting measures? Is there anything in the Commission's proposals that it would currently be unacceptable under EU law to apply domestically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I wish to move on and elaborate on that point. I am a former Member of the European Parliament. One of the difficulties we have here is that every so often, when a regulation is applied and local communities are annoyed, upset or frustrated by its application, our Government will tell them there is nothing it can do because this is an EU regulation. What it does not acknowledge is having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I apologise. I have not seen that impact assessment. I will ask Dr. Delgado Rosa another question. What is the socioeconomic impact assessment as it applies to Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Does Dr. Delgado Rosa think it would be appropriate for member state governments to carry out a socioeconomic assessment within their own countries prior to ministers and MEPs voting on this regulation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: How would the practical working of restoration the 35% of drained, farmed peatlands that would be restored but not necessarily rewetted look? How would it look for a sheep or beef farmer in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: In many respects, we are talking about farms that are very extensive at present. They are very small numbers per hectare of either cattle or sheep. Does Dr. Delgado Rosa envisage that some of these drained farm peatlands could be restored and that cattle or sheep would continue to be on those farms?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I have to assume the very fact Dr. Delgado Rosa is not able to give straight answer suggests that in many instances, for land to be restored and qualify as such, beef or sheep production would not take place on those farms. Here is a difficulty that we have. Dr. Delgado Rosa has mentioned the funding that is allocated and put aside for biodiversity in various aspects of the EU budget. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I have approximately two minutes remaining and I have several specific questions. I ask the committee secretariat to furnish Dr. Delgado Rosa with the responses we received from the Minister and Department in respect of the GAEC regulations and the impact they would have on restoration. Their interpretation of what the parameters will mean sound very different from what Dr. Delgado Rosa has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I am out of time and I have one more question. I will say this with regard to this point. Rather than this being an evolution of CAP I would compare it to a situation whereby a local authority provided a business with a grant to build an extension and a number of years later issued it with an order to demolish that very same extension. I have a question on policy. From whatever position...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Did Dr. Delgado Rosa say "obnoxious"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Did Dr. Delgado Rosa say it was "obnoxious"?

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: We cannot speak about climate action without speaking about forestry. I have repeatedly said in the House that if we fail on forestry, we will fail on climate action. The Government is failing dramatically. The programme for Government sets out an annual target of 8,000 ha per year in new afforestation, but instead the Government has overseen the near entire collapse of Irish forestry. We...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: The overcrowding we have witnessed in our hospitals this winter represents an inhumane, unsafe, undignified health service. We need radical action. Unfortunately, few people have confidence that this Government will deliver that because the cause of the unrelenting crisis in our health services is the policy agendas pursued by successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Considering the principle of subsidiarity, which is one of the principles of the EU, rather than trying to adopt a one-size-fits-all regulation to be applied across 27 member states, why would the Commission not encourage member states to apply a domestic law that takes into account the unique circumstances of each state at that level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Unfortunately, my own experience is that, in many respects, it is only when this arrives at somebody's door or farm gate that he or she realises its implication. Mr. Delgado Rosa can correct me if I am wrong on the figures but the draft regulation states that 70% of each member state's drained, farmed peatlands must be restored by 2050, with half of this area to be placed specifically under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Just to say, if I may, what we are speaking about are family farms, predominantly in the west of Ireland, that are the lifeblood of their local communities. Language is important when we are speaking about these matters.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his proposed timeline to publish the strategic rail review. [1795/23]

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the Minister and his officials. The establishment of a food regulator has been a long-standing demand of Sinn Féin and many farm organisations. I have regularly stated that an enforcement authority that protects farmers and communities against the stranglehold of dominant processors, particularly meat factories and multinational retailers, must be a central plank in...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the witnesses. I would like to talk to Mr. Jordan about one of the flagship Government programmes, Croí Conaithe, which I understand is being administered by the Housing Agency. If I am correct, the basis of the scheme was on the evaluation that the construction cost of an apartment, at around €400,000, which is cited at the moment, would make it unaffordable and,...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: Has that programme been approved by the European Commission yet in terms of state aid approval?