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Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am sharing time with Deputy Martin Kenny. I presume he is on his way. I am pleased to participate in this debate because there has been quite an amount of discussion about the cost of living, doing business and operating voluntary community services in recent weeks and months, and rightly so. The pressures in this State are so great on many workers families, small businesses, etc.,...

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

Matt Carthy: I concur with the Cathaoirleach in respect of the reputation Ornua, in particular the Kerrygold brand, has internationally. It is something we should be very proud of. When I was in Brussels I was at a European event showcasing some of the major European brands that have an international impact and one of the gifts we received was Kerrygold. I joked at the time I was probably the first...

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

Matt Carthy: I am referring specifically to the 7% that relates to the fixed price contract.

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

Matt Carthy: When Ornua is purchasing in this 7% and then selling it out, am I correct in saying that is all sold out on a fixed price?

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

Matt Carthy: Okay.

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

Matt Carthy: In some instances, Ornua is purchasing in at a fixed price but is selling out at the prevailing market price. I am trying to put this in layman's terms as much as possible.

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

Matt Carthy: I will try to put this simply. Is Ornua also selling out 7%? In terms of what Ornua is selling out at a fixed price, would it equate to 7% of the output?

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

Matt Carthy: I imagine the people who are purchasing from Ornua at a fixed price are doing fairly well in the current climate. They have got a good deal.

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

Matt Carthy: At the end of the day somebody is benefiting. I am not sure anybody who has been in a supermarket right across Europe has seen any reduction, or certainly not in terms of dairy products. Does Mr Jordan accept or believe that those farmers who are selling on a fixed price contact are losing money on the proportion of their product that has fallen under fixed price? They are selling at...

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

Matt Carthy: They are operating at a loss. In regard to what we just talked about, namely, the origins and the reputation of Irish dairy products, does Mr. Jordan think that is fair at a time when the overall milk price is so distorted in terms of that fixed price contract?

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

Matt Carthy: Yes, we accept that.

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...