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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Agriculture Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding that has been allocated from the carbon tax to the agricultural sector to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48263/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the allocations provided to Monaghan County Council for flood alleviation measures in each of the years since 2017 to date. [48264/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Union (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected contribution of the State to the European Multi-annual Financial Framework in each of the years 2023 to 2027; the projected receipts by specific programmes (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48309/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of participants in the National Parks and Wildlife Service Farm Plan scheme for each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the average number of hectares and the average payment by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48314/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Environmental Protection Agency is compiling an indicators report of water quality in 2021; the expected publication date of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48315/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the new vaccine for shingles is not available on the medical card or the drug payments scheme; if he will review this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48130/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of parameters letters sent to Horse Racing Ireland following the Houses of the Oireachtas granting approval of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund for the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48311/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date that finalised details of the new forestry programme were shared with the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; if either Department awaits further information from his Department on the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of co-financing provided by the State in relation to funding from the European Multiannual Financial Framework provided in each year since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48313/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I welcome our guests. The issue of the Owenacurra centre in Midleton has come before this committee on several occasions. Who is best placed to answer questions on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am trying to get behind the HSE's rationale. As I understand it, in June 2021, residents received a communication from HSE management indicating that the centre was to be closed on the basis of a Mental Health Commission recommendation or standard. Am I correct in saying that was the rationale for the decision?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The HSE's procedure was to seek alternative accommodation. Does it strike the HSE as strange that some of those alternative accommodations - I refer to the ten residents who have already been moved - included placements in shared rooms and on long-stay wards? I am told that alternative accommodations included St. Stephen's hospital in Glanmire and St. Finbarr's hospital in Cork. The Mental...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: That would be absolutely laudable, were it a situation in which the residents who had been moved were indicating that they were satisfied with the fact that they had been moved. However, that is not the evidence that has been provided to this committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: This is what I do not understand. Essentially, the rationale for taking very vulnerable people out of a residential setting was a deficiency that had been identified by the Mental Health Commission but they have now been moved to other locations which, in some instances, have had the exact same adjudications from the commission and, in all likelihood, they will have to be moved again. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will cut across Mr. Fitzgerald, if I may. Does he accept there are other residential centres that, similarly, are not fit for purpose in terms of the standards to which we all aspire?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is Mr. Fitzgerald answering "Yes" to the question I asked? I apologise for cutting across him. Is that a "Yes"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is transformed when they have moved to better facilities-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: -----or when existing facilities are upgraded.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: As Mr. Reid will be aware, I am a step removed from this. I have spoken to elected representatives in the area who do not have a vested interest in the matter other than wanting what is in the best interests of their constituents. I am asking these questions because this issue consistently comes back before the committee. The question that has not been answered is why this centre was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I have gone through all the responses and the question I am asking that has not been answered is why this centre was prioritised. I will not go through the list provided to me of other centres in that CHO region that, by any objective analysis, are more in need of updating than Owenacurra is. There is no reference to any planned works in that regard. Taking at face value that works were...