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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: The proposal makes sense.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is agreed. I suggest we be more specific with the IHRB and that it would be the Accounting Officer who would attend.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop and support further and higher education in County Monaghan. [35748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements he has had with a view to increasing the provision of on campus accommodation for students. [35749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expected to receive the priority review of the disabled drivers and disabled passenger’s scheme. [35756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the Organisation Review of An Bord Pleanála by the Independent Review Group published in February 2016; the status of the progress of each of the 101 recommendations in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: 346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers availing of the nitrates derogation; the total number of cattle in the herds of those farmers; the total hectarage on which basic payment was claimed that is, grassland per county in 2021, in tabular form. [36451/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry to disappoint the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank our guests for being here. Did the CCPC have engagements with the Department with a view to being the body that would be responsible for the UTP legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: Mr. McHugh referred to the Common Agricultural Policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is the relationship between the Common Agricultural Policy and the UTP legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: That would not be my reading. I know the answer to this but does the CCPC see the need to establish a new UTP enforcement authority as a signal by the Government that the CCPC failed to protect the market chain in relation to food?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. McHugh see any potential for the new body to encroach on the work that the CCPC is currently responsible for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: UTPs are practices carried out by retailers or processors that discriminate against their suppliers in terms of the price they receive or the conditions attached. Is Mr. McHugh saying that up until this point, those practices never came within the remit of the CCPC?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I ask that we keep answers as brief as possible. The Chair often criticises me for speaking for too long but it is usually the answers that are very long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I knew that would excite the Chair. I ask this because we have to attend a vote. Are there any current functions of the CCPC that could be transferred to the new body at some point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will conclude on this, although I have a number of other questions so we will see if we have time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: Will the Chair allow me back in to contribute when we return?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: We were talking about the distinctions between the new office for transparency and fairness and the CCPC. The witnesses will know that one of the criticisms of this committee, and we have spoken about it previously, relates to allegations of either price fixing or cartel-like behaviour. Essentially, the position of the CCPC is that it does not have the evidence to follow that through....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: What did the CCPC find?