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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Okay. State aid rules have been cited not as a reason but as the primary reason. That is what Coillte told us when its representatives appeared before the committee in December and that is what the party leader of the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, has said, namely, that this is down to EU state aid rules. I ask the Minister to be as concise as possible but what efforts have he and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: But the state aid rules are in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: In advance of that, what efforts did the Minister of State make to ensure that those state aid rules would allow Coillte to invest directly, as opposed to the need for these joint ventures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: No, the state aid rules have been under review for some time. The Commission carried out a review of the state aid instruments for agriculture, forestry and rural areas and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine made a submission to that and got involved in the consultation process in 2021. The European Commission very helpfully published all of the submissions they received...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: I am asking a specific question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Okay, the Minister is either purposely missing the point or simply missing the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: I am taking the Chair-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Here is the issue. The new state aid rules are in place since 1 January. My question was on what the Minister had done proactively to try to ensure the state aid rules would address what Coillte had said was the reason it was engaging in this way and needed the private element to its funding, which related to the state aid rules. I pointed to a written record that shows the Department,...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (24 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagements he has had with the Central Bank regarding residential mortgage holders who were overcharged as a result of the tracker mortgage scandal and have had their mortgage contracts sold to third parties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3096/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will endeavour to ensure that a person (details supplied) receives an urgent outpatient appointment at the orthopaedic clinic in Cavan and Monaghan Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2913/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Driving it into the ground, Charlie.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: The Green Party said a lot of things in opposition.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Thanks to one of the Minister, Deputy Ryan's, brainwaves the last time he was in Government, for the past 12 years, without knowing it, ordinary families and households have been subsidising the electricity bills of some of the largest companies in the world. The large energy user, LEU, rebalancing subvention took charges away from big businesses and added them to the bills of domestic users...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Will customers be repaid?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Will the customer be repaid? The Minister will not answer.
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Is the Government only using half its allocated time for opening statements?
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Okay.
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: The Government still managed not to answer any questions. Fair play.
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: I welcome this debate. I also welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. I have lost count of the number of discussions and debates in which I have participated in this House, and at committees and elsewhere, in respect of Ireland's forestry policy and its underlying failures. I have often said that a good forestry strategy is one that will deliver for the environment, our local...