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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I appreciate that. We have a situation, however, where essentially we have a market chain. As Mr Jordan said, the fixed price contracts model benefited everyone on that chain for about a decade and in normal circumstances because everybody has the assurance of knowing how much they are going to be purchasing and how much they are going to be selling their product for. It gives an assurance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Mr. Jordan has acknowledged that everybody who is selling under a fixed price contract at the moment is losing money, that is, the farmers. Everybody else in the market chain, including the co-ops, Ornua and their purchasers, have quite an amount of security. The only people who are taking a hit in this instance are the primary producers, the people who, I would argue, are the most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Thank you, Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I apologise that I missed part of the meeting. I am trying to balance three meetings. I concur with what has been said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is it the voting block? There will be a number of votes. There will be at least two.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: It needs to be said that the people of Meath are 100% correct to fight for their hospital services and their elected representatives are absolutely correct to bring this matter to the floor of the Dáil. I commend Deputies Guirke and O'Rourke on doing so. I encourage the people of Meath and their representatives to keep fighting and to be extremely wary of promises of better services to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: 34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects to receive the review of projects allocated funding under the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; when it is intended that Fund will re-open for applications; and the process Monaghan County Council will have to engage with following the review in order to secure funding to provide a public swimming pool in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I apologise for missing the start of the question. The specific question to the Minister of State is on soaring fuel prices and the impact they are having on workers and families. The Government introduced minimal reductions in excise measures in March and it has done nothing since in respect of the huge cost and burden of fuel prices on workers and families. We are four weeks away from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Let us be clear that Sinn Féin has put forward a package of measures that are required to ease the burden of the cost-of-living crisis that so many are facing, including specific directed measures that would ensure social welfare recipients and people on lower incomes receive targeted supports. We also need to recognise the lived realities of hundreds of thousands of families. I will...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I offer apologies on behalf of our Chairman and Vice Chair. A great deal is happening in the building today, so a number of members are unavoidably absent. I understand that they will attempt to make it to the meeting later. I will ask a couple of questions before other members contribute. Does the Department consider that the overall contract arrangements for the children's hospital...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: As the Committee of Public Accounts, an amount of our work involves taking a retrospective view in respect of best practice, value for money and efficiencies in contractual arrangements in various sectors. Is Mr. Tierney saying that the Department of Health engaged in a contract, the outworking of which will reach billions of euro in public expenditure, but the Department does not have an...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does that office engage with the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does it come to various Departments, including Mr. Tierney’s?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: The office comes to the Department of Health, tells it that it is reviewing the entire basis on which major infrastructural projects take place, points out that this Department has been engaged in the largest infrastructural contract and asks what its opinion is, but the Department says that it has none.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is it? That is what I am asking for.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: No. I asked what the Department’s position was in retrospect on the contract to which it tied the Irish people.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Will Mr. Tierney remind us of the original contractual value of the children’s hospital?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: The budget that was allocated.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Will Mr. Tierney distinguish between those two figures for me, please?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: At our meeting this time last year, I believe the estimated figure was in the region of €1.7 billion.