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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I get cases where people might be making a one-day or a three-day appointment. It is very different if I live in this city. That is something a person can do on their lunch break or take a couple of hours off work. If somebody is coming from the top end of County Derry or Donegal, that is a very different scenario. That is a full day of their lives taken out, if there is childminding or-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: The Minister is correct. When urgent cases are brought to the attention of Members of this House and we bring them to the Passport Office, officials there are exceptionally good and sympathetic in dealing with that. I am always wary of a service that involves a politician having to intervene and ask for it. There is nothing worse than failing to see a text message and next thing it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Agreements (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the EU-Israel Association Agreement is due to be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5050/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Agreements (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when next the EU-Israel Association Agreement is due to be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5737/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on his efforts to ensure that international funding to UNWRA is protected and increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Safety (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 17 January 2024, if he will report on the findings of Department officials who visited the Sellafield site in July 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5048/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel stationed in each barracks/facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5047/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 25 January 2024, if he will report on his engagements with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in relation to the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5049/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 381. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the visa which would be appropriate for family members of dependents of Irish citizens currently in Gaza; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5727/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if the building utilised by Carrickmacross Social Services, located at Cloughvalley, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan was sold by the HSE to a third party organisation; the reason for such a sale; the details of such sale; the oversight involved and the individuals and structures that approved any such sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 560. To ask the Minister for Health if provision has been made to ensure that Carrickmacross Social Services can continue to use the building and facilities at Cloughvalley, Carrickmacross that is or was in the ownership of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5543/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (8 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his engagements regarding the Mercosur Trade Agreement. [5744/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (8 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in light of the order of provisional measures of 26 January 2024 by the International Justice in the case of South Africa v. Israel, if he has conducted an analysis of Ireland’s legal obligations regarding the granting of export licences for dual use commercial items with military applications; if he has sought input from the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the allocations made by his Department under the Brexit Adjustment Reserve; the Departments to which funds were allocated; and the purpose of such allocations. [5755/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding available to Monaghan County Council for flood relief projects under Budget 2024. [5754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the reason approved home support was not delivered to a person (details supplied) in November 2023; if he will ensure that approved supports will be delivered; the steps he has taken to ensure such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5961/24]

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: Sinn Féin would abolish the television licence. The Government has spent a lot of time this evening talking about what that would mean for those who currently do not pay their licence fee. Of course, the people who would benefit most from Sinn Féin's proposal are those who do pay their licence, who often become financially strapped by the burden and increasingly wonder why they...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 174. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rational and basis upon which he intends to place restrictions on Defence Forces representative associations through the Defence Forces Amendment Bill 2023; his views on the prohibition of representative associations from making public statements or commenting concerning political matters; his intended definition of ‘political...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 175. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the findings of the Permanent Defence Force adjudication finding of 24 May 2023: RACO and Department of Defence: conditions of service of the Director of Military Prosecutions; and if subsection 2(2A) as outlined within the Defence Forces Amendment Bill 2023 is consistent with the finding of the adjudication finding. [6033/24]