Results 3,761-3,780 of 10,790 for speaker:Matt Carthy
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 778. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his efforts to secure amendment to EU state-aid rules that would allow State-owned companies such as Coillte to avail of grant aid under the Forestry Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4570/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the revised State-aid rules allow for Coillte and other public bodies to access afforestation premiums funded exclusively through national resources. [4582/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any provisions under the revised State-aid rules that exclude Coillte and other public bodies from accessing afforestation premiums which are funded exclusively through national resources; and if he will indicate the relevant provisions in relation to same. [4583/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the types of State-aid for afforestation that Coillte and other public bodies may be eligible for under the revised State-aid rules; and the costs of the establishment of forest and woodland and annual premiums per hectare for maintenance and income foregone. [4584/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 779. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that will be dedicated to forestry in each of the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form. [4579/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 785. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the recently announced €1.3 billion Forestry Programme between capital and current funding in each of the years 2023 to 2025 and 2026 to 2027, in tabular form. [4585/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 786. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of the recently announced €1.3 billion Forestry Programme that is pre-committed capital funding within his Department’s capital ceiling under the National Development Plan in each of the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form. [4586/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2023 (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme under subhead B10 of the Revised Estimates for 2023, in tabular form. [4580/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 781. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of hectares of land disposed of by Coillte, by year and by county, since 1988; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4581/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person who signed the shareholder letter of expectation to Coillte on 2 June 2022 on behalf of the State; the details of the letter; if the letter will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4587/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 796. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with a sectoral group (details suppled) to discuss the incoming forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4702/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (31 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: 797. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current number of hectares and percentage of utilisable agricultural area under use for or in conversion to organic production; the targets for 2025, 2027 and 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4703/23]
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: The Government is out of touch with the people we will need to deliver this programme. We need farmers, but the Government has alienated them. We need the forestry sector, but the Government has alienated it. We need local communities, but the Government has alienated them and disengaged them from the process. Unless the Government realises these failures, it will not be able to address them.
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Is the Government only using half its allocated time for opening statements?
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Okay.
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: The Government still managed not to answer any questions. Fair play.
- Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: I welcome this debate. I also welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. I have lost count of the number of discussions and debates in which I have participated in this House, and at committees and elsewhere, in respect of Ireland's forestry policy and its underlying failures. I have often said that a good forestry strategy is one that will deliver for the environment, our local...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Thanks to one of the Minister, Deputy Ryan's, brainwaves the last time he was in Government, for the past 12 years, without knowing it, ordinary families and households have been subsidising the electricity bills of some of the largest companies in the world. The large energy user, LEU, rebalancing subvention took charges away from big businesses and added them to the bills of domestic users...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Will customers be repaid?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)
Matt Carthy: Will the customer be repaid? The Minister will not answer.