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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hemp Industry: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is that opinion?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State for that, but I could have sent the Minister an email with the questions. I would have thought that the purpose of Topical Issue debates is that we could have a debate on a matter such as this. If the Minister is unavoidably absent, then we accept that. In fairness to the Minister, he is one of the better Cabinet Ministers at attending for Topical Issue...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: I will have to revise a number of my remarks because I had very much hoped I would be having a discussion with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine this evening. Of course, that is no disrespect to the Minister of State. One of the fundamental problems I had with the Minister's approach to the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, strategic plan is that he refused even to indulge...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: For the purposes of clarification, let me be clear that Sinn Féin supports measures that protect public health. We support measures that protect our environment and deliver climate action. Where we differ from the Government is that we insist that such measures are fair, workable and credible, concepts that are alien to this coalition. In fact, at the heart of this Government's...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The committee should not have to hunt down public representatives.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Deputies are getting very frustrated over there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is not what the Taoiseach was asked.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: He was not asked that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is the Fianna Fáil position. It is good to know.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach should tell his party Deputies who are running around the rural communities saying something else.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: There are two sides to every argument.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: We never said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Yes, we know, and you are going to increase it next week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: And it is going up next week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: No, you have not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: What about home heating oil?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Electric Vehicles (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: 510. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties encountered by private companies securing insurance cover for company owned electronic vehicles; if he proposes any measures to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20368/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Apologies for being late; I was listening to the proceedings on the phone. It is an important voice that needs to be heard in the wider debate on afforestation. This committee agrees that forestry can play an important role in the future of agriculture and meeting our climate emissions targets. Sometimes, the third cog of that is missed, namely, that forestry should also be playing a part...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: For this committee and for decision makers more generally, it is going be about balance. I agree absolutely that there are some areas where there has been a proliferation. That needs to be accounted for in terms of how we plan for the future. We need to undo damage that has been done by very poor forestry and planning policy in the communities that the witnesses have spoken about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: Some of the language our guests have used, such as describing the Department as inept and incapable of meeting its remit, is probably stronger than we have ever heard from any stakeholder group across most committees in these Houses. That needs to be heeded. Our guests have spoken about the elephant in the room, and I get a sense they believe the solution is essentially to get rid of the...