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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: On the last two, Nos. 5 and 6, is the €137,000 in a separate bank account, I take it, under the auspices of this account?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Are there bank charges?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In respect of the local loans fund, is it the case that there are no funds in that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Why do these entities still exist?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Whose responsibility would it be to wind them down?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It would be appropriate for us to write to the Department to ask if it has the intention to do that. On the Regulator of the National Lottery, I think we touched previously on this issue in respect of the pensions and that there is a liability of €3.2 million in terms of pensions. I presume that is accruing on an annual basis?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What would the standard practice usually be in those instances?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What does it mean when Mr. McCarthy draws attention to something but gives a clear audit opinion? What responsibility is there then or is there an added responsibility due to the fact that he has flagged that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It would be useful if the committee got a note from the Department about what it considers to be the solution to this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I agree with that entirely. There is a lot of talk about learning lessons. Every Department that comes before the committee is learning lessons from some previous debacle, yet new debacles are always beginning. None of those is bigger than that relating to the national children's hospital. At some point, someone - whether it is this committee or someone else - will need to look at how we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will make another point. Deputy Burke mentioned that construction inflation has increased dramatically. We hope since most of the building work has been completed although the contract itself burdens the entire cost of any inflation over 4% on one side. It is mind boggling how so many people looking at a contract could not see a danger in that When we first raised it which is not that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The difference is that in that case, that percentage was built in to the original contract. What happened here was that 4% in construction inflation was built into the original contract with a proviso that everything above that, regardless of what it was, would be borne by one side. How it works with social housing projects, as we know, is that if costs go beyond what could have been...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current status of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53596/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the targets for delivery of IDA supported jobs in County Monaghan for 2023. [53597/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 99. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her intended timeframe to implement an effective rural proofing model. [53599/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Derelict Sites (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 112. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will establish a grant scheme towards the renovation of derelict rural properties for the purposes of providing tourism accommodation. [53598/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that speech and language therapy has not been available for in-patients at Monaghan Hospital in recent weeks; when such therapy services will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54029/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent number of speech and language therapists for in-patients that have been available at Monaghan Hospital on the first day of each month from January 2020 to October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54030/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That was felling; this is about planting.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I want to lodge with the Taoiseach directly my very real concerns about the direction of the forestry strategy in the State. There is a target in the programme for Government of planting 8,000 ha of new forestry each year. Our climate action plan assumes that we have been planting 8,000 ha of new forestry, but we are only managing about a quarter of that on an annual basis. It is getting...