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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 241. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports he can provide for vulnerable current account customers who may not be in a position to switch accounts prior to the closure of said accounts by a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5883/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 25 January 2022, the date that the review income eligibility for social housing was completed; if he plans to publish the review; if so, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6723/22]

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

Matt Carthy: 836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 835 of 1 February 2022, if he or his colleagues in have had engagements with Bord na Móna with regard to provision of access to extraction equipment or mixing plant to the commercial peat extraction for horticultural use sector in the State; the timeline for implementing same; and if he...

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

Matt Carthy: 837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 833 of 1 February 2022, the terms of reference of the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board commissioned audit of anti-doping procedures in Irish racing further to the report of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on Horse Racing in Ireland; the intended timeline to...

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

Matt Carthy: 838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 841 of 1 February 2022, the circumstances under which potato seed may be imported into the State without the State from which it was imported being specified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6659/22]

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

Matt Carthy: 839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the updated forestry licensing target by licence type for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6720/22]

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

Matt Carthy: 840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation in 2022 for a new system facilitating a pre-application engagement between the forester and his Department; the number of individual licences the pilot applies to; the types of licences the pilot applies to; when the pilot is due to conclude; if successful, when it is intended to roll-out the scheme more broadly; and...

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

Matt Carthy: 841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is planned to provide a financial contribution to afforestation applicants towards the cost of environmental reports; the intended allocation for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6722/22]

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

Matt Carthy: 842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated to the pilot soil sampling scheme; the number of places within the scheme this was intended to facilitate; the number of successful and unsuccessful candidates by county; the basis on which applicants were selected or refused; the number of successful applicants affected by reported delays by county; and if he...

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

Matt Carthy: 843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to delays within the pilot soil sampling scheme; the consequences for farmers spreading lime, fertiliser or slurry prior to sampling taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6725/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to publish the CAP Strategic Plan given the 16 other European Union member states have done so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6726/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tax Code (8 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position of his Department, the expected impact and mitigation measures his Department intends to introduce with regard to privately owned farmland being within the remit of the zoned residential land tax from 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6727/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Minister's commitment to the sector will be judged on two measures, namely, the conditions experienced by those working in it and the costs borne by those people bringing their children to childcare facilities. Neither of those two areas has seen any improvement since this Government took office or since those thousands of people came onto the streets two years ago. We must, therefore,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I take it from the Minister's response that those childcare providers I referred to will have the full information by March. I welcome that he expects the JLC process to be complete by then and that the Department will have published the breakdown of how this process will work in future. The next point, then, concerns those people working today in stressful conditions, because childcare...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to improve the pay and conditions of professionals in the childcare sector. [4894/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I would appreciate it if the Minister would outline his plans to improve the pay and conditions for professionals working in the childcare sector. I would particularly appreciate it if he would give a timeframe for the delivery of those much-needed improvements.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the witnesses for being here this morning. On PPPs and Mr. Walsh's assertion that they represent good value for money, how many PPP contracts have fulfilled their duration at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: When is the first due to expire?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Which one is that?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Has TII carried out a full audit at this point of the cost of the project on that road, for example, and the ongoing cost on an annual basis?