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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 September 2019, before any of us had ever heard of Covid or corona viruses, the ICU bed numbers were 255. It is hard to believe that we have come through the past two and a half years, an additional €1.7 billion has been provided and we still have fewer than 300 ICU beds.

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 understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: Would it be fair to say that a proportion of that work would previously have been carried out in-house by the OPW?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I suggest we write to the OPW. Representatives of the organisation are scheduled to appear before the committee later this year. In advance of that, I suggest that we ask for a note on this contract, specifically whether it has carried out an examination to determine if restoring at least some of these types of work to in-house staff would have a cost benefit.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is what I would have thought.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: We asked questions about this in previous deliberations with the OPW, but it would be useful to receive a note on this matter in advance of our next engagement with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I support Deputy Murphy on that point. In respect of the correspondence itself and the laying of the accounts, I note the Chair's positive remarks but think it would be more positive if the accounts were actually produced on time. There is a number of items of correspondence from different bodies - I cannot clarify how many - but they indicate that the delay to the laying of the accounts...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It was.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current number of outstanding passport applications that were submitted more than one, two, three, four, five and six months ago; the total number of applications on hand; and the current number of staff in the Passport Service. [48266/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposed timeframe to honour the Government commitment to recognise the state of Palestine. [48265/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach will be aware that the A5-N2 road artery has been raised on numerous occasions in all-Ireland discussions and has been included in several national development plans and other projects. This year, however, all funding for the section of the N2 from Clontibret to the Border was removed and works stalled. I ask the Taoiseach to assure the House that he will use his position to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I asked about the section of the N2 from Clontibret to the Border.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The road funding for the N2 from Clontibret to the Border was pulled this year.

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) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I apologise in advance to our guest that I have another engagement I need to go to. The opening statements and the subsequent answers we have heard have been very comprehensive. I have two brief questions. The first is in respect of the evidence we have now heard from the co-op sector, the licensed merchants sector and the pharmacy sector in that the sales of veterinary medical products...

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) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will cut across Mr. O'Shea because I am going to end up not getting an answer to an important question. Can I ask the IPU, in terms of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, whether that is something it has considered?

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) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: I want to refer to an aspect of the ILMA’s opening statement which spoke about a fresh approach and a new legal opinion that may resolve the problem and that has been submitted to the Department for consideration. Could its representatives briefly outline how that would work in practice and how it would differentiate from the current heads of the Bill that we have seen?

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) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is in terms of what the Department has provided to us in respect of its legal advice, which of course we have not seen, which essentially states that responsible persons cannot be provided for in the way that they have been to date. I take it that the ILMA’s advice is saying something different. I am asking how it would work if the IPU’s advice was adopted by the Department?

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) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: To clarify, essentially the ILMA is saying it has advice that would allow responsible persons to act as they heretofore have been acting.

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) (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is okay. I thank the Chair.

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: The twisted logic behind the decisions of this Government can often be mind-boggling but the defence of the concrete block levy we have just heard would send the head spinning. In the midst of a housing crisis that has merged with an inflationary crisis the Government is proposing a measure that will make houses more expensive. It has essentially proposed a defective funding mechanism to...