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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?

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

Matt Carthy: Is that a toll road?

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

Matt Carthy: There is income coming from the tolls. I take it there is an ongoing cost to TII.

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

Matt Carthy: The company is largely responsible for the cost of maintenance of the road.

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

Matt Carthy: Then there are the original upfront costs in terms of the construction of the road in the first place. Taking all of those factors into account, including the income that is being received by the private contractor, can we say here is a balance sheet outlining how much the road costs, how much it costs to maintain, how much income the private operator received and this is how much it would...

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

Matt Carthy: What are the final figures? How much more will it have cost the State than it cost the public-private partnership, PPP, model to do the same work?

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

Matt Carthy: Can we do that for each of the projects?

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

Matt Carthy: In this committee, we have learned that some PPPs deliver cost savings, but many do not. However, we do not know that at the time of the contract; it is only when it is extrapolated over time. It would be very helpful if we could get that in respect of any of the roads for which it is being done.

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

Matt Carthy: Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, is one of these organisations that finds itself in a bind, because whenever it is doing something that is welcome in a local community, it is the Minister who has delivered that. However, whenever it is postponing or suspending projects, that is on TII. I want to try to figure out where the line is drawn in terms of political decisions versus TII's...

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

Matt Carthy: TII would send the Department a list, I presume in order, of what it thinks are the most critical road projects or transport projects.

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

Matt Carthy: Of the existing network?