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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: We are seeking an understanding as to why contact was made with a third party in respect of information exchanged between the Committee of Public Accounts and the regulator without also contacting us for a copy of that correspondence and a broader explanation as to whether it is standard practice that contact would be made with third parties to clarify information that is raised in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: As I said previously, I think we should wait until the Deputies who raised this matter are here to deal with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: I was only forwarding on additional correspondence that had come through.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: My understanding is that we previously agreed to seek a response from the Charities Regulator. I presume that will be an item of correspondence in the new year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: In fairness, it has been a busy couple of weeks, so I can understand why the Deputies who first contacted the committee have not been able to attend meetings. To give them their due, could we include it as an item of correspondence as well at the first meeting in January, regardless of whether we have received a response from the Charities Regulator?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: There was a query as to the process by which the Minister would appoint members to the board of a company, which is not owned by the Government. With your indulgence, Chair, could I put this matter back until January, just to get my notes together properly?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Investigations (14 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: The 50th anniversary of the bombings at Belturbet in County Cavan, Clones in County Monaghan and Pettigo in County Donegal will be marked on 28 December. The three bombs exploded within 49 minutes of each other. It is widely believed that the UVF in conjunction with British state agents were responsible for the attack. Nobody has ever been held to account. For many years, the response...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Investigations (14 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State for the update on the investigation. I ask him to give an assurance that he will endeavour to consistently update the families of the two victims he mentioned, Geraldine O'Reilly and Patrick Stanley, and the family of Paddy McCabe regarding any progress in that investigation. Will he also ensure that Justice for the Forgotten continues to be recognised for the...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle might give me guidance on whether we should use the metric of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, on what it says about the Government’s confidence in the Minister and his policies with the fact that neither the Taoiseach nor the Tánaiste could remain in this Chamber.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: For all of the bluff and bluster from Government Deputies, they cannot hide from the plain fact that its housing policies and its Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage are failing. Far from resolving the housing emergency, the Minister denies that there is an emergency at all. The emergency was not of the Minister's making, although his party played a starring role, but he...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: Where is the Deputy's leader?

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: Hear, Hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: In the 21 years of the existence of the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, only once has its members had a split decision, and that was in respect of the actions of the Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, in leaking a confidential document to his friend. The Comptroller and Auditor General and the Ombudsman, both members of SIPO, did not accept his implication that his actions, in his...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: Are taoisigh accountable to SIPO?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: Are taoisigh accountable to SIPO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: To take up that point, is it correct that the 100,000 ha is the commercial joint venture with Gresham House?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: Can answers be kept a bit shorter please? I ask the witnesses to answer as clearly as they can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: On the 100,000 ha that are being purchased through this joint venture, what is the timeframe for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Matt Carthy: How many hectares are we talking about in the commercial joint venture?