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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of salmonella outbreaks in each relevant county detected in 2023 to date; his Department’s response to these outbreaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6826/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has identified the cause of salmonella outbreaks on poultry farms; the measures he proposes to reduce the risk of further outbreaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6827/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 904. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he provides to poultry farms that are subject to salmonella outbreaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6828/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish in full the shareholder letter of expectation issued to Coillte on 2 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6829/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the dividend policy of Coillte was last reviewed; the outcome of such review; when the next review is likely to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6830/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (14 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: 907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 278, 280 and 281 of 11 May 2022, if the Government has sought a further derogation this year in relation to the use of non-organic wheat in organic diets up to a threshold of 5%, given the underlying conditions in relation to the invasion of Ukraine have not abated; and if he will make a...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: When a strategy comes to life years later, the new Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael Minister usually throws his or her predecessors under the bus, laments the historical practices and tells us that lessons have been learned. Not in this case, though. In this case, current members of the Government are implicated: the Tánaiste; the Taoiseach; the Minister for Justice, Deputy Harris; and...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: On 21 July 2011, the then Secretary General of the Department of Finance famously stated, "The Government of Ireland pays its debts, always has and plans to do so." Of course, he was talking about the use of billions of euro of Irish taxpayers' money being used to bail out unsecured bank bondholders, because the Government of Ireland does not always pay its debts and, certainly, not when it...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Nuremore Hotel and Country Club in Carrickmacross has been an important part of the south Monaghan economy and its regional tourism generation for several decades. The hotel was purchased in 2018 by Mr. Kai Dai, who is one of the biggest cash for visa brokers that has benefited from the immigrant investor programme. Serious issues have arisen at the hotel. On numerous occasions...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: The two parties who caused the housing crisis working together.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. As the Chair said, we are on a tight lock. I would appreciate it if we could try to keep the exchanges as brief as possible. Mr. Watt mentioned that 15,000 parliamentary questions were submitted to his Department. Just as a matter of interest, of those, how many were deemed to be operational matters and not actually answered by the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I asked out of only my curiosity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I want to talk about some of the issues that have been prominent in public discourse over recent weeks. As for the issue of people in institutional care homes who were denied their disabled person's maintenance allowance or disability allowance after their first eight weeks of care, from and until precisely what years did that practice continue?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Let me then try to be more specific in my question. In respect of each of the periods, does Mr. Watt’s detailed note suggest the numbers of people affected?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I saw the estimate of 12,000 and the report of the secret 2009 memo that advised the Government against conducting a trawl of HSE records, as it could result in media attention. Considering that there is now clearly media attention on the matter, is that trawl and full in-depth review of the numbers of cases going to be conducted or has that commenced?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will come to that. On this specific issue, has the Minister asked for that particular trawl to take place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach has pre-empted that discussion in some ways. He said that the Government does not have a leg to stand on in respect of the legal cases in respect of this particular aspect. Would Mr. Watt agree with him?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: When Mr. Watt said the matter is being examined by the Department, does that include analysing precisely how many people were impacted and what their financial loss was as a result of the Government operating ultra vires, which is a way of saying it operated illegally?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: Mr. Watt has not been instructed by Government to start putting in place the process of identifying and fully compensating all of those people who might have been-----