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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the tariff rate applied on agricultural equipment imported from the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6252/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Product Labelling (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 73. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to direct that commercial products labels be published in a bilingual format, that is, Irish and English; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6302/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposal by Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board to amalgamate schools (details supplied); if she is satisfied that adequate community consolation has been carried out regarding this proposal; if she has received requests to review the proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6165/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the issues regarding the pension and gratuity status of community employment supervisors; her further plans to implement the Labour Court recommendation issued in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an eligible student can retain the back to education allowance if they are also in receipt of a stipend of €16,000 from the Irish Research Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6292/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 403 of 15 December 2020, if he will engage directly with Tusla to ensure that payment is issued without delay to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6107/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make additional financial supports available to students re-entering higher education at the same QQI level as they had previously finished due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6247/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of investigations into the bombing of Belturbet, County Cavan on 28 December 1972; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6298/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagements between State agencies and their UK counterparts in respect of the bombing of Belturbet, County Cavan on 28 December 1972; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6299/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if information or documentation in respect of the bombings at Belturbet, Castleblayney, Monaghan or Dublin have been sought from any State body from Operation Kenova; if such documentation or information has been provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6300/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Product Labelling (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 233. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department’s new language scheme will be finalised; if he plans to direct that all medical labelling be conducted in a bilingual format, that is, Irish and English; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6294/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if evidence suggests that vitamin D intake assists in curtailing the impact of Covid-19; if he plans to promote the consumption of vitamin D among the wider population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6295/21]

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: To recap, a project is in place that was originally estimated to cost €650 million. In December 2018, the Government approved an investment decision of €1.433 billion. Those costs appear to have spiralled to the extent that it has been suggested that expenditure may reach anything up to €2 billion. I accept that the board is certain that a report will be furnished next...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: On the basis that the report has not come out, can Mr. Gunning give an estimate to the nearest €1 million, if he cannot to the nearest €100,000, or even to the nearest €100 million? Let us be as broad as that. Can we at this stage of the project be given even that information?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Dáil's Committee of Public Accounts cannot even get a figure, to the nearest €100 million, for how much this children's hospital will cost. We learned today that the board has a complex contract in place with a contractor, to facilitate different levels of dispute resolution and conciliation and all that comes with that, yet we heard there have been 700 conciliation claims by...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: Another member gave the analogy of building a house. If Mr. Gunning had contracted a person to oversee the design, building, equipping and all the other planning issues pertaining to building the house and, when 20% of the works had been done, that agent was not in a position to tell him when the job would be completed or what the final cost would be, would he consider that perhaps he had...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: Just before I go, the written statement-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: -----the committee received today states that in terms of the approved investment decision of €1.433 billion, the situation as of today is that several items are not included in that investment figure as there was no price certainty for them.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: Therein lies the problem we are now facing.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: Somebody has to be held accountable for it.