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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Given the time constraints, I am happy enough to move on.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am okay for now. I will allow others in.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I agree with everything Deputy Catherine Murphy said. An additional line of inquiry might be to ask the Central Statistics Office what its data source for the non-profit sector will be in the absence of Benefacts. We should get broader information from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of its envisaged timeline for the procurement of a new provider, what it intends...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will come in on this issue on another day. I am okay for now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: It was not acceptable this morning. One could have this crazy scenario in order to avoid any questions on a particular line of expenditure that one would simply move it to another Department and then no historical questions can be asked because the new Department says that was historical and the old one says it can no longer answer questions in relation to that because it has moved. It...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am only making that point. I suggest that we write to both the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, DPER, and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and that we may seek to hold a hearing on this matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Can we flag that we will return to the Aramark contract with it on that occasion?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: On 31 January, the committee wrote to the Secretary General of the Department of Health seeking clarification regarding the exact period of time for which he waived remuneration for his current post. We did not receive any response. We wrote again on 8 April and that question was put again. I propose that we write again requesting that information. I remind the committee that this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes, that was in December last year.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the creation of new, or repurposing of existing, financial instruments under the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, with regard to the current challenges facing the self-employed and the small and medium enterprise sector. [17910/22]

Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: At a recent meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach I challenged the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, in respect of agri-diesel and the fact that the Government had announced, to much fanfare, a meagre 2 cent reduction in the cost of agri-diesel but intended, on 1 May, to increase it again. The Minister justified that move but...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Rural Independent Group for bringing this motion to the floor and allowing us have an opportunity to discuss carbon tax. I was very interested to listen to the Minister of State's response. It was useful also to be able to read it and the justification for the carbon tax. The term "behavioural change" is not used once. When the carbon tax was introduced behavioural change was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Sincere thanks to our guests for being here. They are bringing us a very important perspective on equine welfare in the broadest sense. We spend a lot more time than I would ever have envisaged at this committee talking about horses, from all different perspectives. It would be useful, if the opportunity ever arose, for the committee to visit one of the farms because often it is only when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Going back to my question then, who should be the lead partner on this? A lot of the problems we are talking about, including the funding problem, stem from the fact that different bodies can pass the problem on to somebody else and not take responsibility. Is it the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the local authorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: There is a programme for Government commitment to double the funding within two years. We are past that now for animal welfare organisations. I take it the funding for My Lovely Horse Rescue has not doubled in the past-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Welfare: My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: -----two years. I happened to be in the Dáil yesterday when Deputies Mark Ward and Gino Kenny raised a Topical Issue matter on the Clondalkin Equine Club, which I have an interest in because I got an opportunity to visit it some time ago. It is an example of best practice, where the local authority, the Department and the local community came together with horse owners in an urban...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Chairman might be relieved to know that I have to run off to speak in the Chamber shortly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am only saying what the Chair is thinking. I will try to be as brief as possible. The overwhelming sense I get when dealing with this issue is that there is a lack of enthusiasm and certainly a lack of drive, which is bewildering, considering many commentators suggest that this could be an important crop for diversification, farm incomes and climate action. Everything that has been done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Would the Department consider a move to hemp to be environmentally positive for the different sectors of livestock, dairy and tillage? Is such a move environmentally positive in each instance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Where does the Department consider that evidence coming from? Is it Teagasc, or does Mr. Moloney see a role for the Department to explore these matters at all?