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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Before Senator Paul Daly came in, I wanted to talk about the potential of putting in place a legislative framework that would have what he described well as decoupling. For ordinary people, what we are talking about in that instance is exactly what happens for human medicine whereby a GP prescribes and a person purchases in a chemist. That system is in place for very good reason, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I absolutely support the principle of this part of the legislation. It could be a very valuable tool in terms of putting measures in place at a later stage that would incentivise individual farms to reduce emissions. The difficulty I have with it is a fairly obvious one. What procedures are envisaged for a farmer from, for example, my county, who happens to go to a merchant? It may be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is simpler not to do it if we are talking about simplicity and the reality of these things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: So they go across, they buy, they come back, they go online and then register themselves. Do they do that before they buy it or after?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does the Minster of State not see the potential for the overall figures to become distorted as a result of somebody forgetting to register as a fertiliser economic operator or forgetting to upload the entirety of what they purchased?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Today, I realised a direct debit came out because I forgot to tick the box to cancel it, even though I reminded myself about 100 times. Sometimes people do forget. Let me ask the other way around-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will ask the question the other way around. A farmer from County Fermanagh travels to his local merchant who happens to be in County Monaghan. What happens in that instance when he purchases? What does the merchant in that instance do to record the fact that farmer has bought a quantity of fertiliser?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: So he will say, for example, he has sold 200 bags of fertiliser to somebody outside of the jurisdiction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: As I said, I support the objectives of this legislation. How will the Department know somebody who told a merchant they were from outside the State was actually from outside of the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I concur with Ms Byrne about the importance of doing this and of getting it right. It is a good phrase "to have a system that is fully functional, reliable and accurate". I contend it is not possible to do that on a partitionist basis. Finally, I ask the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, what interaction he has had at ministerial or official level with his sister department in the North....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That does not reassure at all, I have to say. As it stands in the legislation, if I as a farmer go to any merchant in this State, purchase fertiliser and give my herd number, the onus will be on the merchant to upload all of that and it will be assigned. It is a very simple process. Am I supposed to say to somebody who might be in the parish of Cullaville - the parish crosses the counties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I agree with the Minister of State that the vast majority of people will adhere to this system and work to ensure it is fit for purpose because it is in the interests of Irish agriculture to have a system that stands up to scrutiny. The problem is some people will always try to circumvent some rules and the anomalies I have drawn attention to will allow that to happen, I would argue, fairly...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I welcome Mr. Mulvany and his colleagues. I just want to touch briefly on the cyberattack of last year and specifically the individuals whose data may have been exposed. Have they been informed by the HSE that their data was incorporated into that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is the near future? Is that days, weeks or months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Mr. Mulvany mentioned a complex process. I do not think anyone would dispute that. We can all appreciate that would be the case and that a number of steps will need to be taken in response to it. My difficulty is getting an understanding of what step is informing those people whose data may have been exposed. It clearly was not the first or even the second. Where down the line is it?...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: As the HSE gets close to clarifying the scope of it, what is the estimate at this stage of the number of individuals who will have been affected?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Are we into the tens of thousands?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I assume that if the teams are put in place to contact all of these people, there would need to be some form of an idea as to how many people they would be expecting to contact.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: On the self-declared risk rating, it is essentially up to the HSE to categorise the associated risk in terms of the exposure. Have any or all of those who have been affected been rated at this point?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: In respect of the National Ambulance Service, Mr. Mulvany’s briefing indicated that the NAS budget in 2021 was €203 million. Was the outturn in line with that?