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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Transport Costs (10 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 1169. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the daily transport charge, which parents of adults and children with special needs were required to pay for transport to day services has been abolished as per commitment given by previous Minister of State for Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 1402. To ask the Minister for Health the current and known upcoming vacancies at Cavan and Monaghan Hospital group; the dates on which the vacancies arose or will arise and the dates when vacancies are expected to be filled, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29507/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Yield (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: I really would appreciate a bit of honesty from the Government. It is not true to say that the carbon tax is ring-fenced. The Comptroller and Auditor General confirmed that he could account for about 61% of it and be assured that it was going towards environmental measures. As with all Government decisions, taxes are collected and decisions are made as to how they are spent, so to say that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Yield (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount by which he intends to increase the carbon tax, by category, in each year until 2030. [28015/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Yield (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: Will the Minister outline the amount by which he intends to increase the carbon tax during the course of the Government's term, setting out clearly what that will mean for families and workers facing a cost-of-living crisis?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Yield (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: The carbon tax is unique. There is nowhere else we can point to in the current budget where we can say with certainty, "This is what the Government plans to do". We cannot tell pensioners where their pension will be in five years' time but we can tell them by how much precisely Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and those champions of rural Ireland, the Healy-Raes et al., are going to increase the...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: As we have a quorum the meeting is now in public session. Apologies have been received from Senators Gallagher and McDowell. Senator Diarmuid Wilson will act as a substitute for Senator Gallagher. I remind members to turn off their mobile phones or at least switch them to flight mode. We have one specific item for the public session today which is an engagement with the Minister for...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for that. I want to raise a number of points before I invite members to indicate. The committee has not been in operation for long, and we accept that, but the timeframe that has been given is very short considering these issues. Once a decision has been made to opt in under Article 3, there is no reverse gear. We will then be locked into any decision that has been...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: I have regularly expressed my concern about the erosion of sovereignty which naturally comes about as our membership of the European Union. It is my view that we should only ever cede sovereignty when we are absolutely clear that it is in the best interests of the Irish people to do so. The Minister will recall that Protocol No. 21, which is attached to the EU treaties and essentially...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: Deputy Callaghan and Senator Ruane are indicating. I have a couple of questions. I will ask them together. The Minister mentioned that Ireland is currently subject to 12 readmission agreements. Will he give us a breakdown of how many of these are EU-wide agreements? Are any of them bilateral agreements? I note that quite a number of EU states, including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland,...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: Since when was that?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Senator can come back in later.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: I have no other Members indicating. I have a few questions but members can indicate if they want to jump in at any stage. The Minister mentioned there have been 12 IP applications from Kazakhstan since 2019 and one was subject to a deportation order. Should I take it that the other 11 applications were approved?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: Am I correct in saying the Minister does not know whether the deportation order was enforced? Does he know whether the person subject to the deportation order is in Kazakhstan or has left the State?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: When was the deportation order issued?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Minister does not know whether-----

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: Is that not part of the problem?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: There is a difference between return agreements and readmission agreements in that the latter covers citizens of third countries who might have come through Kazakhstan, in this case. Would it be fair to say part of the impetus from an EU perspective is not Kazakhstani citizens - the Minister indicated the numbers are fairly small - but citizens of third countries who have travelled through...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: It will only apply to citizens of Kazakhstan.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: This is important. I have tried to understand the urgency the Minister is attaching to this particular opt-in. From an Irish perspective, since 2019 we have dealt with one individual who would be affected by this. Other members may have been in the Houses for longer than me but, in my experience, this is unique in that we are being asked to endorse something without having the full...