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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I find that extraordinary coming from a former Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. He is saying that it would be impossible to develop a capital investment programme at all if we are to say that every contract is meaningless in terms of -----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: And we accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: We are dealing with a project in which the original estimate cost was €800 million and which now is above €1.7 billion and Mr. Watt is saying that we cannot have an estimate of the final cost. I consider that to be a flawed process and I do not believe there is any other capital project

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: ------ where, at this late stage, we could not have a guess as to its final cost.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I have said on a number of occasions to tell me what the final estimated cost. I think that is a fair question. Unfortunately, we did not receive a fair answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Watt. He will be aware that our committee, along with the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, has spent a lot of time discussing his salary. The allocated salary for the position he took up was €292,000 and he waived the increased portion of that. Has he continued to waive that salary increase? Does he believe the salary is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Just to clarify, the question I asked related to the public statement that Mr. Watt made that he was waiving the increased salary. The only question I asked was whether that continues to be the case. Is he saying he will not answer that question?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: No, that is fine. Deputy Catherine Murphy can go on ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am okay for now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I was looking for clarification, in the first instance, as to whether we have written to GSOC as well on this matter. The length of time, at the best of times, that GSOC investigations take can be quite frustrating for those who are dealing with the system. Separately, can we get confirmation GSOC is on our work plan for next year? It would be useful if we had it appear before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I request that, in the interim, we send a letter to GSOC.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: My point can wait until the January meeting, if that is agreeable.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Is there a reason we must deal separately with National Broadband Ireland and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications? The timeframe for putting specific questions to each body will be very limited. If it is the case we will deal with each body separately, I propose that we waive the correspondence meeting in the afternoon and have National Broadband Ireland for the full...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe within which the all-island strategic rail review is expected to deliver its conclusions. [61887/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the all-island strategic rail review will consider the proposal to develop a new rail line from Dublin to the north west servicing County Monaghan and other counties. [61886/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if recommendations that arise from the proposed review into extending section 664A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, to include agricultural contractors for the purpose of providing them similar status as farmers regarding the carbon tax on green diesel, will be implemented prior to the relevant increase in carbon tax taking effect in May 2022. [61889/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (16 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward recommendations to address the high costs of insurance cover in the childcare sector. [61888/21]

Appointment of Member and Chair of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I have not had an opportunity to formally welcome the Minister back. I congratulate her on her recent arrival. GSOC should be the route whereby families or victims who feel they have been ill served by Garda actions can find truth and justice. One family that sought this were the parents and siblings of Shane O'Farrell. This House will recall that Shane was a 23-year-old Carrickmacross...

Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Instruction to Committee (15 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I welcome any proposals aimed at increasing native tree-planting and encouraging smaller levels of afforestation among those who may not be willing or able, in the current climate, to take a leap towards greater levels of planting. Even so, the manner in which this proposal has been brought forward so late in the day, as an amendment to legislation that will ban fur-farming, is a matter of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I had some trouble joining the meeting, so I apologise for being a few minutes late. Will the Minister give his rationale for not accepting the amendment, if that is his intention? Will he elaborate on the wording it is proposed not to amend, namely, "during the period commencing 6 months before"? There is a seasonal element to workers in this sector. Is the Minister satisfied all workers...