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Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's participation in four European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: On a point of information, this vote that will now be held next Wednesday evening would have allowed ample opportunity for the joint committee to deal with the deliberations as set out in the amendment. The Government is simply being pig-headed in respect of how it is dealing with this matter.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's participation in four European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Cathaoirleach Gníomhach is welcome.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the Cost-Rental Equity Loan, the Affordable Housing Fund and Project Tosaigh in County Monaghan in 2022, and planned to be delivered in 2023, with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size. [33001/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (6 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she intends to introduce legislation underpinning the provision of pensions to carers. [33004/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her proposals to amend the means limits for carers allowance applicants. [33003/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: There has been a focus on all these issues as a result of the consultative forum on security. It appears that there is not a serious and credible defence force anywhere in the world that does not also have a serious and credible reserve defence force. In such circumstances, I would have thought that, prior to any discussions about what international military alliances we may potentially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: In fairness, nearly everything has been covered. In terms of the Chair's proposal, which I fully support, I suggest that perhaps the secretariat could pull together the transcript of this meeting, when it is available, and provide that to the Chief of Staff and the Department. This is in order that we get a substantive response in respect of each of the issues that has been raised in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: Last week, the Government published a long-awaited report of the scoping exercise into the death of Shane O'Farrell. The Taoiseach will know that many aspects of that scoping report have been challenged by Shane O'Farrell's family. The crucial question that has not been answered is why the person who was solely responsible for Shane's death, a man by the name of Zigimantas Gridziuska, was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: We are seeking a debate on a Government report that was laid before the House.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach's response is completely unacceptable. We are talking about a Government report that has been laid before this House. The Members of the House deserve an opportunity to debate it. The implications of it are quite profound. The Taoiseach's response is disingenuous in the extreme.

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: At the outset, I apologise that I will have to leave the debate early to attend an engagement with the European Parliament. It has been 17 months now since Vladimir Putin's Russia launched a brutal and criminal war on its neighbouring sovereign state, Ukraine. In doing so, Russia unleashed the largest land conflict and the greatest displacement of people in Europe in more than eight decades....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: 62. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagements she has had with her Cabinet colleagues regarding tourism in County Monaghan. [34731/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: There was a second part to my question that did not make it onto the Question Paper, which was specifically about the Nuremore Hotel in Carrickmacross, which is and has been a crucial hub for tourism activity and generation. I would like the Minister also to reference that in her remarks.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: I agree with the Minister entirely that County Monaghan has a huge amount to offer tourists. One of the things we cannot offer them on many occasions is a place to stay, because the most renowned residence for tourists, a place that was used by Jack Charlton and the Italia 90 team and is one of the most esteemed hotels in the region, is shut down. The Minister is right. The question...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (13 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: If a hotel of this scale and esteem was opening, people would be hard-pressed to stay standing in the stampede of Government Ministers who would be running to cut the ribbon on it. The Government can intervene and take credit when facilities are opening, private or otherwise, but when there are problems that are caused by a Government scheme, all of a sudden we are told the Government cannot...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: Cuirim fáilte roimh na ráitis seo agus go bhfuil seal agam le labhairt faoi chúrsaí sa Phalaistín. The refugee camp at Jenin in the West Bank is a perfect, albeit tragic, symbol of Israel’s brutal occupation of and aggression against the Palestinian people. I ask the House to imagine a child of Palestine in 1948. Imagine that this child was one of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: 68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions she intends to take in response to the report from a scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied). [33958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: 73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will now implement the decision of Dáil Éireann in 2018 to establish an independent public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) and the actions of State agencies in respect of this case before, and subsequent to, their death. [33738/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the respect engagements Government has had with the Australian government or Australian state; the proposals for upcoming engagements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34238/23]