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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.

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.