Results 741-760 of 10,843 for speaker:Matt Carthy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 817. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to facilitate the registration of dental technicians with the Dental Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions taken on foot of the inclusion within the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, correspondence of 7 August 2020 of the point that NPHET agreed the interim recommendations of the report Investigation into a Series Of Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants in Ireland and further recommend that the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances to date in 2020 in which mechanical grading in meat factories has been suspended and reverted to manual grading; the factories concerned; the length of time for the suspension in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26460/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he plans to put in place in accordance with the commitments made in the programme for Government to ensure it will still be possible to purchase mushrooms, lettuce and herbs grown here in shops and garden centres at a reasonable cost when stocks of horticultural peat produced here are exhausted in the near future and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect the mushroom industry here, which has a farmgate value of €119 million and relies on horticulture peat, in view of the potential depletion of peat reserves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26462/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1007. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of temporary veterinary inspectors who have been employed at each relevant food processing plant; the number of temporary veterinary inspectors who signed the waiver at each plant in cases where they were over 70 years of age or otherwise extremely medically vulnerable to Covid-19, by each month in 2020, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the sheep welfare scheme into 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26464/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of submissions received in respect of the proposal for a protected geographical indication, PGI, application for beef; the number of submissions that were opposed to the PGI proposal; his plans to publish the submissions or a synopsis of same; his further plans for consideration of the submissions and to reflect the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I want to follow up on the point with regard to serial testing. I welcome the comment by Mr. Reid that it is useful and very beneficial because some utterances in the Dáil Chamber would suggest that perhaps serial testing is a novelty that we could do without. I want to talk in particular about the food processing sector because I am of the belief that at least some of the recent...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I want the figures because I have only five minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I did not. I asked one question. I asked the number of factories serial testing had been completed in last week and the number of people that involved.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry. I have very limited time. I have asked Mr. Reid a question. Nobody is disputing that the public health teams are doing great work. Could he please answer my question?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I asked for last week's figures.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I know that. All of that information is to hand. Mr. Reid does not have the figures. Can the figures in respect of last week be conveyed to the committee as quickly as possible?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: What does the 500-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: In how many centres?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: Okay. There is another speaker after me. I have to ask one question. Could I follow up with a final question?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I note that Dr. Henry and Dr. Cuddihy attended NPHET meetings via video conferencing on 7 and 17 August. Following those meetings, a letter from the Chief Medical Officer to the Minister for Health recommended that NPHET agree the interim recommendations of the investigation into a series of outbreaks of Covid-19 in meat processing plants. Could the HSE speakers indicate the reason that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: It was the interim recommendations relating to the investigation.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: Can Dr. Henry indicate why the recommendations from NPHET had to be conveyed to the Minister for Health twice in ten days?