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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: I get that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: He had the pertinent information from NAMA.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: He may have. I cannot say he had or had not because his colleagues may or may not have told him. I do not know. I cannot speculate on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: I will speculate that he did.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: Mr. McDonagh is being proactive in that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: Was Mr. McDonagh aware of the apparent conflict before the House was informed?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: Neither Mr. McDonagh nor anyone else in NAMA knew about this.

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: This budget was an opportunity to deliver a new vision, particularly for our farming and rural communities. The Government did not take that opportunity. Instead, we have got more of the same failed policies. Those people who need their cars to get to work, including virtually every family in my constituency, will notice little change after this budget except that they will have less money...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of concessionary school bus passes issued in September 2020; and the number issued in the same period in each of the years 2015 to 2019. [30084/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the procurement process was fully compliant with regard to the retaining of services by a company (details supplied) to carry out the leaving certificate predicated grades modelling, compliant but non-competitive, or non-compliant and non-competitive, in either case other than fully compliant; and the justification for this. [30083/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exempt green diesel used by farmers and farm contractors from carbon tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30616/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place and funds committed in reserve to potential and unforeseen issues arising upon the reopening of schools to ensure that they may be promptly addressed and that schools may remain open. [22239/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions put in place to ensure ongoing consultation with school boards of management, parents’ associations and teaching unions upon the reopening of schools. [22240/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to resolve the imbalance in pay scales for principals in primary level compared to secondary level schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30614/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the back to education scheme to allow for recipients of the pandemic unemployment payment, especially those with former employers that closed down (details supplied), to retain the same level of payment if they return to education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30615/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms that will be affected by an increase in the excretion figure for a dairy cow from 85 kg of nitrogen to 89 kg of nitrogen by county; the overall impact expected from this move on overall nitrogen levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30606/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms that have had satellite inspections to date in 2020, by county in tabular form; the number in each county that have had penalties applied as a result of satellite inspections by county; the number of expected satellite inspections for the remainder of 2020, by county; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the response of his Department to the revelation that traces of the growth hormone zilpaterol were evident in some animal feeds available here, including any investigation commissioned by him; the efforts taken to ensure that this was an isolated incident and that this cannot happen again; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Communications (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has made contact with a retailer (details supplied) regarding the assertion by the new owners of the company that they will not stock Irish beef products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts to ensure that Pillar 2 payments such as TAMS, GLAS, BDGP and the sheep welfare scheme will continue in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30610/20]