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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: No. The Chairman has been very easy-going and relaxed but I do not want to test him. How important is the establishment of a food ombudsman office in addressing the broad range of issues that were mentioned?

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 is if it ever comes before us.

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: As the Chairman will recall, I was a member of the European Parliament when the unfair trading practices directive was adopted. I voted against it because I did not think it was sufficiently robust. I thought it gave too much latitude for governments to take a minimal approach. The Irish Farmers Association had quite a go at me for voting against it and I was challenged in many a forum,...

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 two further questions. Ms Brennan will probably be best placed to answer both of them. A €7 million package was announced for the pig sector, which will work out at approximately €20,000 per pig farmer. The Minister is on record as saying that is all he is allowed to give under the de minimisrules. What else is needed? Has the IFA a proposed avenue in order to...

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 to run to another meeting, but I will try to come back.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Supports (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: I support Deputy Pringle's call for our fishing communities to be supported through the Brexit adjustment reserve fund. Farming families in Ireland were one of the poster boys for the potentially devastating impacts of Brexit and, therefore, in the outworking of this fund, which is welcome, they need to be supported. Up to now, the only element within the agrifood sector that has been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of instances in which his Department has set aside existing guidance as to remuneration rates for civil servants or employees of State-funded bodies regarding persons earning more than €120,000 per annum since February 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11299/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: In how many instances since February 2020 has the Minister's Department set aside the existing guidance on remuneration rates for civil servants or employees of State-funded bodies regarding persons earning more than €120,000?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Perhaps the Minister will use his remaining minute to answer the question I put to him in the first instance. I asked about the number of instances in which he has set aside the existing guidelines. We welcome the fact new measures will be put in place, but in my work as a member of both the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, I have...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Ba mhaith liom an rún seo a mholadh chuig an Dáil. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Cullinane as ucht an rúin a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. There are now 1.34 million people in the State on health waiting lists. Some 893,000 of those are on hospital waiting lists. It is an absolute scandal that has been decades in the making. It is the result of mismanagement,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if changes have occurred to the manner in which the National Parks and Wildlife Service provides notifications to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine relating to actions requiring consent as they relate to TAMS applications; if the staff, role or unit within the National Parks and Wildlife Service which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reports (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 848. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of external reports commissioned in 2021; the cost of each; the external reports that were received by his Department in 2021; when such reports were or are expected to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11364/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for delays in TAMS applications for Natura and hill farmers; the steps he has taken to alleviate the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11365/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 761 of 30 November 2021, the financial support that has been provided to the voluntary national Johne's disease control programme in each of the years 2012 to date in tabular form; the specified purpose for which this support is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has a strategy or policy with regard to the eradication of Johne’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11410/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 758 of 30 November 2021, the counties in which the referenced nine carcases diagnosed with Johne’s disease originated from; the year they were identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11411/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 853. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2024 of 19 January 2022, the reason that an organic farming scheme payment has not issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: 854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected costs relating to advisers and consultants a farmer is expected to incur in the process of taking part in the Agri-Environment Climate Measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11413/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the fact that the Minister is here to answer this question, because for far too long this has been fobbed off to a Minister of State. There has not been the serious intervention that is required at Cabinet level. This whole process has been marked by delays, as has been mentioned. The Government set up an expert working group to examine these issues. The length of time the...