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Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered expanding those approved colleges that receive grants in relation to the student hardship fund to include agricultural colleges on the same basis as those colleges already supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of his Department in facilitating the provision of green cert courses via the education and training board sector; the number of students enrolled in such a course in each of the years since 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12502/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Natural Resources (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided to local authorities regarding hedgerow surveys to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12569/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Natural Resources (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total length of hedgerows in the State, in kilometres and hectares by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the year that Irish forestry will become a net emitter of carbon due to the current afforestation rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 747. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated by Horse Racing Ireland to anti-doping measures in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 748. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated by Horse Racing Ireland for the welfare of retired racehorses in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount expended by the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board on the testing of blood, urine and hair samples; the number of such tests carried out in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12551/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which farmers can identify if the holding is within the boundaries for the cooperative projects of the agri-environment cooperative measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12552/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current supports available from his Department for hemp farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12553/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost associated with producing an online survey tool in relation to unfair trading practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12554/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the targeted number of participants in the organic farm scheme for the years 2022 to 2030; the expected allocation to achieve such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12560/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation related to organics, excepting the organic farm scheme in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the purpose of this funding; the recipient of this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12561/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 755. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to meet the target contained within the Climate Action Plan to provide 1.6 TWh biomethane injected into the gas grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12562/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government has a 2030 or intermediary target for the adoption of multi-species swards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12563/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 757. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated to multi-species sward scheme; the number of participants; the average payment by county and farm system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12564/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to publish a report in relation to the recent correspondence of his Department to persons who have received afforestation licences but have not yet planted; if so, when he plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Government target by year for the adoption of low emissions slurry spreading technology; the intended allocation under TAMS to support same; the target number of farmers in receipt of such funds by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers supported via TAMS in the purchase of low emissions slurry spreading technology to date; the total expenditure; the average grant by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12567/22]