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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: 871. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reporting radiographer positions currently operating in each CHO region; the plans for further recruitment for this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18278/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (5 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: 943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it has been ensured that all beef processors have the facilities in place to honour the commitment in the 2019 Beef Sector Agreement to provide live weighing in factory lairages when requested to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18237/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I commend the Deputy on raising this issue. I agree with his final point wholeheartedly. This is one of the areas where any of us who stand on farmyards can see a glaring opportunity for farmers to contribute positively to our climate action obligations and that they want to play that positive role. I agree with the point that farmers must be able to include and sell excess electricity...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank Deputy Crowe for raising this issue. The Minister will accept that the €15.8 million that has been earmarked for Ireland out of the EU crisis reserve is a drop in the ocean in terms of the supports our farming families need. The first question to the Minister is, naturally, whether he will he ensure that is co-financed to the tune of 200%, as is within his gift. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: On the Minister of State's final line, there is no evidence she is committed to supporting this sector. Every Minister that has responsibility, across three Departments, has run for cover. We have not even been in a position to get the relevant Ministers to come before the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine to discuss the issues. Who is the independent expert commissioned...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I did not say it had. The Minister of State commissioned this working group that mentioned Bord na Móna six different times, yet she is here saying she has no responsibility for Bord na Móna. It is central to the working paper her Department produced. She has appointed an independent expert with a specific remit. The second action in the working paper specifies this independent...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Because Bord na Móna was shipping it across.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: What about the short term?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Government has not delivered anything.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made to implement the short and medium-term actions of the working paper to address challenges related to peat supply in the horticulture sector. [16813/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horticulture Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Minister of State will know there are some horticultural sectors, and I am thinking of the mushroom industry in particular, that need peat to survive. I hope an alternative to peat can be found and I would urge that efforts be intensified in that regard. For years we had the scandalous situation in this State of hundreds and thousands of units of peat being extracted from Irish land and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regulatory Bodies (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to ensure the unfair trading practices enforcement authority will have the necessary powers to improve and secure farmers' position in the market chain. [16812/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regulatory Bodies (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Tá fáilte roimh an Aire. I have long believed a strong regulator is required for the food sector, for the meat industry in particular. The Minister has advocated for a food ombudsman in the past. Recently, he announced instead he would establish an office for fairness and transparency. I ask him to inform the Dáil what the distinction is between the two. What powers does...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regulatory Bodies (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I hope the Minister will accept that, to date, his response to this matter has been minimal. If he does not accept that, I would be apprehensive about the authority that is coming down the line. I want the new authority to work. I want it to have powers of enforcement that go beyond the current section within the Department which, being frank, has received no complaints since it was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regulatory Bodies (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: The difficulty is the Minister said the exact same thing about the timeframe this time last year. I followed the unfair trading practices regulation at an EU level throughout the entire process. I was a shadow rapporteur on the file and was part of the negotiations. I was disappointed with the final outcome because I feared the directive was far too minimal and member states would...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues. I apologise for my absence; I was in the Dáil Chamber. GSOC will appear before us next week, but I want to get a sense from the Garda of how its co-ordination with GSOC operates in practice. Does the Garda have an assessment of the budgetary cost of its interactions with GSOC? Is that delineated in any way?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does Dr. Coxon have an estimate for the number of human resource hours spent in engagements or interactions with GSOC?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does the Garda know the percentage of their time that superintendents and chief superintendents spend interacting with GSOC?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am referring to the industrial action that was in place from July of last year until this February. According to GSOC's correspondence with us, it had a substantial impact on the outworking of its investigations. I am trying to get a sense of how that arose and whether it was appropriate that industrial action was used in that way. Essentially, a group of workers implemented industrial...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: That action was described as a "go-slow" where the officers concerned were carrying out what were considered to be their core duties. Can we extrapolate from the industrial action that superintendents and chief superintendents do not consider their work on behalf of GSOC investigations to be a core part of their work?