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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 879. To ask the Minister for Health the dates serial testing for Covid-19 occurred at locations (details supplied) from September 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7062/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 880. To ask the Minister for Health if the testing that occurred for Covid-19 at locations (details supplied) occurred as part of a scheduled serial testing programme or in response to an individual confirmed case. [7063/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 876. To ask the Minister for Health the environmental sampling that has been carried out in meat processing plants in which an outbreak of Covid-19 has occurred since 1 January 2020; the results of such sampling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7059/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meat Processing Plants (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unannounced HIQA inspections carried out in meat processing plants since December 2020; the locations and dates of these inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7060/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 930. To ask the Minister for Health when it is planned that dentists and their staff operating in the HSE dental treatment services scheme will be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7320/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 931. To ask the Minister for Health the PPE supports made available to dentists since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7321/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 932. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the dental treatment services scheme in response to the increased operating costs of operating private dental practices as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7322/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 933. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the dental treatment services scheme in response to the withdrawal of a number of dentists since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7323/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Appeals (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances since January 2015 to date in which his Department has set aside the findings of the director of the agricultural appeals office following a review at the request of his Department of a decision by an appeals officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7052/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1022. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department issued a direction to mink farms that a cull was to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7064/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1023. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the advice he has received from the CMO indicating that a cull on farmed mink is no longer warranted on public health grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7065/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1024. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm inspections carried out by month and county in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7066/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recipients who received CAP Pillar 1 payments of €60,000 or higher in 2020, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7109/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1027. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of funding that would be available for redistribution if CAP Pillar 1 payments were capped at €60,000 at 2020 levels. [7110/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if construction in the interests of animal welfare or the essential operation of a farm are permissible under the current level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7324/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: This week the Committee of Public Accounts has asked the Government to stall the recruitment process for the new Secretary General of the Department of Health. If the process goes ahead, an additional €81,000 will be provided in remuneration for the position. The committee also dealt this week with the ever-increasing spiralling costs for the national children's hospital. We have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time and number of persons waiting for a primary care clinical psychology appointment nationally and by CHO region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7487/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 256. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical staff employed in primary care clinical psychology by CHO region in each of the years 2010 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: 334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the discrepancies affecting the category known as the forgotten farmers, that is, those young farmers who have been denied top-up financial supports due to the fact that they commenced farming before 2015, will be resolved in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7720/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office
Chapter 5 – Implementation of Financial Management Shared Services (16 Feb 2021)

Matt Carthy: I return to the issue of the financial management shared services platform, which is really important. The NSSO came out of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. As that Department is charged with ensuring value for money and efficiencies within the public service, a situation where a project within that Department has ballooned in cost from €47.4 million to an estimated...