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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the concerns of an association (details supplied) regarding the leaving certificate syllabus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12504/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Families, workers, farmers and small businesses have all been struggling with the cost of living for months or years even. They have struggled with rents, childcare, insurance and mortgage interest, and Irish workers have paid among the highest costs and rates in Europe for some time now. Added to this, electricity, heating and fuel costs have steadily risen over the past year, leading to a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners’ relief for increase in carbon tax on farm diesel part 23-01-36 reflects the increase to the carbon tax applied to the mineral oil tax carbon component from 1 May 2021 onwards; if more up to-date guidance is available; the best source of such information for farmers seeking to calculate the available rebate in the period...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 1 March 2022, if the review that resulted in new guidelines regarding the salary of the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland in 2011 was part of a broader review or related solely to that role; the number of instances since February 2020 in which such guidelines have been set aside in the case of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS inpatient beds by the lowest available geographic unit in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13187/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of grain by type produced in the State in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the amount by type imported in the State in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the amount imported of which is GMO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13177/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the technical specifications that inform the traceability of input feed in food production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding has been allocated to complete a review of the Teagasc Marginal Abatement Cost Curve per action 3030 of the Climate Action Plan – Annex of Actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13180/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rate at which the foal levy is currently calculated; if he has considered the reform of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which the foal levy is distributed; the way it is ensured this efficacy is achieved in its dispersal; the amount raised by year in each of the years 2007 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13185/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the oversight his Department has of the foal levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13186/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided to the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland for loans that could be availed of by farmers to date; the amount of credit loaned; the amount of repayments received by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13188/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Waste (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to reduce the amount of waste associated with food packaging and food waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13189/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the witnesses for their very interesting presentations. I must admit that, like Senator Paul Daly, I am not clear on how it all works. I wish to have a few points clarified for my own understanding. Under the ECJ ruling, GMO products are largely banned across the EU but there are some exceptions, of which Spain is the most notable. Where does CRISPR fit in? Is the ruling of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry to interrupt Dr. McLoughlin but for clarification, are Spain and Portugal operating under a derogation or do those particular GMO products have a licence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: They are licensed across the EU. It just happens that they are the countries that use it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Going back to my original question, is the CRISPR technology being used anywhere in the EU at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: The great anomaly with GMO products is that goods produced from practices and products that are banned in the EU are permitted to be imported, which is an inherently unfair system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: If we are going to ban a practice, we should ban the importation of products for which the practice is used as well. Otherwise, we are putting the likes of our grain growers at a distinct disadvantage. Then, when there is an emergency, we ask why we do not have more of them. That issue needs to be addressed. In terms of CRISPR technology, does the EU also allow the importation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: To mask my ignorance and for the layperson in the audience at home, I want to ask a question that has already been asked. What is the biggest distinction between GMO and CRISPR in terms of the specifics? I understood that one technique involved two different organisms, but Dr. McLoughlin is saying that CRISPR could also use two organisms. What is the biggest distinction in terms of process...