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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Apr 2023)

Matt Carthy: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when Leaving Certificate results will be published in 2023; if she will ensure that students receive their results in a timely manner to facilitate those studying away from home including those who have conditional offers to third-level institutions outside of the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18979/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Apr 2023)

Matt Carthy: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that must be taken by a local authority to secure supports for modular housing for use as social housing whereby the council has identified suitable locations; if he will consider reinstating the eviction ban until such a time as measures to mitigate the result of the lifting of the ban have been put in place; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (25 Apr 2023)

Matt Carthy: 462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amounts paid by the HSE to the Galro Centre, Kilbixy Paddocks, County Westmeath for the provision of weekend day-respite services for children with additional needs; the criteria and conditions of this funding; whether the centre remains entitled to exclude children from the service; whether a review will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (25 Apr 2023)

Matt Carthy: 492. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 8 February 2023, when a person (details supplied) will be provided with alternative weekend day-respite services following their exclusion from those services at Galro Centre, Kilbixy Paddocks, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19570/23]

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: In fairness, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, cannot be held responsible for global fluctuations in energy prices but he can and he does bear responsibility for the Government's failure to get to grips with it and with the failure to properly support families who have been financially crippled by it. The truth is that Irish families were already stretched to breaking point. This country has...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: What about last year?

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: You had room to manoeuvre.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: You dragged your feet.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide sufficient funding in 2023 to permit the N2 Ardee-to-Castleblayney road project to proceed to the next stage. [20523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current earliest projected timeline for completion of the N2 Clontibret-to-the-border project; and if he will provide additional funding for this scheme and ensure that such funding is not dependent on EU co-financing. [20522/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: It is not agreed. The Government's refusal to provide any clarity on reports that there has been a long-standing agreement with the British Government that allows the RAF to operate in Irish airspace simply is not good enough. Such a dependency on a foreign Government to monitor and protect our skies against hostile aircraft is a scandalous exposure of the failure of successive governments...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: On a point of clarification, is the Taoiseach accepting that there will be a debate in respect of the agreement with the RAF or are we to take his word that it is legally compliant and in line with the constitutional obligation of the Government to bring international agreements before this House?

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Irish people firmly believe that this country's place is in the European Union. That position has been reaffirmed repeatedly over the past 50 years, notably and most recently by the vast majority of people in the North, who voted to remain and who utterly rejected Brexit. I join in the commendation of the European Union institutions on their role in supporting that majority of...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: I am sure that on hearing that the Government will bring the big retailers around the table, many watching this debate will wonder where they had heard that before, because there is a record of the Irish people being fleeced. We saw it with the insurance companies when we heard strong words from the Government but very little action. In fact, it took Deputy Doherty, who made several...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: I might have to pop out for a few minutes for EU statements in the Dáil. I thank the gentlemen for their presentation. I have a couple of follow-on questions in respect of the report. One of the recommendations is that Ireland develops its intelligence capabilities to counter hybrid threats. The IIEA representatives stated that we are not in line with comparator countries. Could...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: I return to the issue of the A5 road. As the Taoiseach will know, regrettably recently there was another tragedy on that road in County Tyrone. The A5 along with the N2 in this State is the most dangerous road in Ireland. In recognition of this, the need for improved transport links to the north west and, as the Taoiseach has acknowledged, the all-Ireland economic opportunities generated...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate. As the Minister will know, we have engaged extensively with him on these matters since probably before the last General Election when we debated the need to protect, in the first instance, primary producers, as well as consumers, from what is an ongoing difficulty with our food supply chain. That difficulty arises from that fact that...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: I support this amendment. The Minister will be aware that below-cost selling or a ban on the sale or purchase, depending on what angle you are coming from, of goods below the cost of production has been one of the biggest sources of debate throughout the discussion. The most important amendment in respect of the regulator and the easiest one for the Minister to accept is amendment No. 10...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: The groceries order was in place.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: As I mentioned, I was in the European Parliament when the originating law, the unfair trading practices directive, went through. I followed it at every stage during that process and I was proud at one stage because I got the European Parliament to adopt a position of supporting a ban on below-cost selling across the EU. That is the pivotal measure required and it would answer the Minister's...