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Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: How many individuals or entities would have utilised that scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank Ms Sweeney. How much of the loans would be still outstanding? In other words, how much would have been repaid at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: That is a good repayment record by the looks of it. Are there plans to reopen the scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: To give us a sense of this scheme, which appears to have been a success in that it is almost fully utilised in terms of drawdown and participants seem to have had a very good record of paying back, why fix something that is not broken? Why not reinvest the money that has been paid back into a similar type of loan scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: Looking through those different types of schemes, there are different types of farms in Ireland, as the witnesses know, and one that is in a particularly perilous situation would be what are broadly described as family farmers as opposed to corporate entities. I would argue that the agriculture cashflow support loan scheme seemed to be very appropriate to that cohort of farmers, perhaps...

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: My final question relates to the Brexit adjustment reserve, the famous €1 billion about which we had many discussions. Has Mr. Black's organisation been in any discussions with regard to ring-fencing some of that for its own purposes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Chairman and all our guests for being here this evening. This is a timely and important debate. If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results then the epitome of madness is the Irish tuberculosis, TB, eradication programme. We are now at a point where having spent €97.3 million directly last year, which was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the witnesses for being here. I have a number of questions which I will try to condense as much as possible. I thank the witnesses for the information relating to deer and badgers because that answers my first two questions. I ask Mr. Ryan to circulate in writing the figures he gave on testing, particularly of deer. That would be very useful to the committee. Was there a bit of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: That is fine.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will reconsider commissioning an independent report incorporating international industry expertise to examine the technical feasibility and cost of undergrounding the North-South interconnector in line with the resolution of Dáil Éireann on 16 February 2017. [13090/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: I firmly believe that the proposed North-South interconnector can be undergrounded and that the technology is available internationally in order for that to happen. I would go so far as to say I believe it will happen only if the Government changes tack and instructs EirGrid and SONI to pursue that route. In 2017 a motion was passed in this House calling on the Government to commission an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: I hope the Minister does not believe what he is saying because if he does, it means he is completely out of sync with his role and his responsibilities. The Government does have a role. EirGrid itself has been on the record on a number of occasions telling the Government that if Government policy directs it to underground the interconnector, it will be forced to oblige. The Government has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: Does the Minister wonder why it is 18 years later and there has not been a single move to erect a single pylon in the intervening period? It is because, crucially, in all the objectives and all the parameters EirGrid set itself, it is missing a crucial component that is at the heart of projects such as the ALEGrO interconnector, a very similar project happening between Belgium and Germany,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will meet with representatives of community groups (details supplied) that are seeking a revision of the North-South interconnector to ensure that the project is undergrounded in order to appraise himself of the concerns of those communities that will be affected by the current proposals. [13089/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it will be ensured those local authority staff members currently seconded to Irish Water will not have to transfer permanently to Irish Water without their agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13455/21]

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

Matt Carthy: 768. To ask the Minister for Health when indoor visits will be permitted in nursing homes which have been covered in the vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12623/21]

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

Matt Carthy: 769. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which decisions relating to the number of guests at weddings will be revisited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12624/21]

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

Matt Carthy: 813. To ask the Minister for Health if aesthetic clinics are permitted to open during level 5 restrictions; the guidelines in place for the operation of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12815/21]

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

Matt Carthy: 885. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an obligation on home care providers to inform the families when the carers of patients are found to have contracted Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13074/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 948. To ask the Minister for Health if all necessary remedial works have been completed at the group home for persons with physical and sensory disabilities at Drummond Otra, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; the date this home will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13388/21]