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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: It strikes me as strange that the HRI commissioned the report in 2019 considering there was no vacancy and the established position of the package for the then CEO was secure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes, two years later.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I take it that nobody can answer whether the HRI examined whether it was possible to identify a candidate under the previously agreed DPER guidelines?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Has Ms Eade been in situas the chief executive since September of last year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is it correct, in terms of departmental approval, that the final salary position was not agreed until November of last year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: When Ms Eade was going through the recruitment process, did she have any idea of the final salary for the position?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Would Ms Eade have accepted the previous salary scale that had been agreed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The DPER salary guidelines were in place.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: The HRI has cost us €50,000 a year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is the position, which we have just heard. We have somebody who is eminently suitable for the role and she is on record as saying she was willing to accept a salary scale.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: Which is it? Chair, I will leave my questions at that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Water Quality (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Environmental Protection Agency is compiling an indicators report of water quality in 2021; the expected publication date of same. [46399/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Programmes (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that there was no Irish application to the REPowerEU programme in respect of development of the use of anaerobic digestion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Programmes (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to apply for funding from the REPowerEU programme in respect of development of the use of anaerobic digestion; if such an application will be permissible at this stage; the details of any proposed application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (22 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated current and capital funding which he intends to be allocated from his Department's budget in respect of development of the use of anaerobic digestion; the purpose of any funding allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46449/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (21 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am participating from outside the Leinster House complex.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his proposals to reduce the amount of polyethylene terephthalate, PET, plastic exported from Ireland considering options are available for the domestic recycling of that waste. [45768/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the recent visit by the Minister of State to Shabra plastics facility in my own constituency. Regardless of the constituency it is in, I am sure from his engagement as local Oireachtas Members will have heard that he is bound to have been astounded by the facts as they are. A company that is in Ireland has to import PET plastics in order to remain viable, while Irish waste...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: In a previous written response to me back in May, the Minister of State indicated that the data relating to the quantities of PET plastic that are recycled domestically and exported were not collated by his Department. Will he indicate as a first step that this has now changed and that he plans to provide the data? We are having a debate in the abstract if we do not know precisely how big...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Carthy: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received a review of the North-South interconnector; when it will be published; and if he will commission a full independent assessment of the potential undergrounding of the project. [45767/22]