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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 940 of 9 September 2024, if she will outline the policy and budgetary context in which the household benefits package for carers who do not live with the person they care for was scrapped in 2012; if she has considered it within the context of Budget 2025; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of special envoys appointed in the years 2000 to date; the appointment process by which they were chosen; the funds allocated in each year to support their work; the intended duration of their term; if he will report on their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37585/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate school bus tickets to siblings (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37429/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate a school bus ticket to a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37430/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct Bus Éireann to establish additional school bus capacity to collect children in Clontibret, County Monaghan, who attend secondary schools in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, considering that there have been a number of children in this area who have been denied school transport this year; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct Bus Éireann to allocate a school bus ticket to a pupil (details supplied), given the upheaval that will be forced upon them and their family if they have to change schools at this stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37586/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for the secondary school education of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37639/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 395. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider funding a new family resource centre in Carrickmacross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37891/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 396. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the funding allocated to family resources centres that carry out valuable work in their communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37892/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 541. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE neurological specialists, by CHO region; the number of vacancies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37893/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: As we meet here, Israel's genocide in Gaza continues, Israel's attacks on the West Bank continue and now Israel's bombardment of Lebanon continues and Israeli leaders are openly discussing a land invasion. Israel is committing war crimes every day. That state is in flagrant violation of international law, just as it has been not for a year but for several decades. Today, we are on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: My assertions amounted to a request that all Government Ministers clarify the full interactions they have had with Israeli Government Ministers and state officials. You did not answer whether that would be forthcoming. You set out very clearly and rightly the realities of Israeli actions in both Palestine and Lebanon, but you did not set out any consequences for those actions. I have no...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: Nothing angers and frustrates people more than seeing wastage of public money. Of course, the litany of overspends and wastages under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is endless. We could go back to the electronic voting machines; the €150 million spent on the MetroLink, which still does not a have a timeframe; NAMA giveaways; and projects with seemingly unlimited budgets and zero...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to her request of the Oireachtas Justice Committee that it examine the recommendations and conclusions of the Haughton scoping exercise report into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person, as an alternative to the Dáil Private Members motion mandating her to establish an independent public inquiry, if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to comply with the wishes of the Dáil, which, on two separate occasions, has called for an independent public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied). [37616/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his proposals to support the mushroom sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulatory Bodies (26 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of complaints received by the agri-food regulator; the outcome of these complaints and any sanctions levied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37613/24]

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: I know I am known for my brevity but-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: I will try not to. I want to speak to Financial Resolution No. 1 on the increase in the price of cigarettes and tobacco products. This is not a popular thing to say but I am completely opposed to such a hike in the cost of cigarettes. I believe it is vindictive. It will not deliver the stated ambition of the Government. Yes, rates of smoking dropped from 27% in 2024 to 17% in 2019. This...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: It is the Government, Deputy Smith.