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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: My point is that this scheme is not actually addressing the regional imbalance that was set out as one of the issues. What proportion of units funded through the momentum fund were in Dublin?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: We introduced a scheme in the middle of Covid that potentially put pressure on the Dublin market because it removed workers from building homes to building private rental properties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Hence the prices people are being charged for rent.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeframe to deliver the N2 Clontibret to the Border road scheme. [11296/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to publish and act upon the review completed in November 2021 into the current banding model and income limits applicable to local authorities regarding housing supports. [11294/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current number of persons and families in need of social housing in County Monaghan. [11295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a request for funding for the Bus Éireann bus station at Monaghan town has been received by his Department; if so, the works included in the application; if he will ensure that funding is provided to carry out works at the station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12252/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport services that are available leaving locations in County Monaghan; the frequency of each service; the corresponding services available in January 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide funding to resolve flooding in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12255/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the applications that have been received by Monaghan County Council for flood alleviation measures; the funding that has been allocated each year since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12256/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding towards flood alleviation measures that has been allocated to each local authority area in each of the years 2010 to 2021; the proposed allocation for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12257/22]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Israel operates an apartheid regime. The report by Amnesty International, which is subtitled “a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity”, calls for Israel to be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people. The obvious question is who will hold Israel accountable. It should be said that the Irish position is much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Cullinan and his colleagues for being with us. However, I must record my disappointment that we have set to secure a meeting with two Ministers and one Minister of State, who we have asked to be present to discuss the issue of horticultural peat. It is nothing short of a scandal that they have continuously refused to co-operate with us in that regard. Nevertheless, the issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: They also said they would not attend unless the third fellow was there as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: There was a bit of semantics involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Cullinan for agreeing to come regardless of who else was here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Why are the processors not the ones who are protesting outside the retailers? I am trying to get to the core of why that is not the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: That prompts the next obvious question. Are farmers afraid to stand outside the gates of their direct contractor, as in the processors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges in the Pig, Poultry and Horticulture Sectors: Irish Farmers Association (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I have a few more questions. I will be as brief as possible before the Chairman cuts me off.