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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: 212. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to significant competitive advantage that bigger multinationals and retail operators presently have over small and medium sized retailers in towns and villages throughout Ireland in the absence of a permissible click and collect service; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (21 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: 1054. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when work by her Department on the refinement of the new DEIS identification model will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19972/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: 2222. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary IT database exists to roll-out the EU digital green cert system in Ireland in a timely manner to allow freedom of movement for vaccinated persons to arrive and depart Ireland from July 2021 onwards to give a much needed boost to the tourism and hospitality sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: 2223. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received representations from the European Commission in relation to the mandatory quarantine system here; if so, the nature of such representations; if reservations have been expressed regarding the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20174/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: 2530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2049 of 24 March 2021, if he will respond concisely in relation to the afforestation level he expects his Department will achieve for 2021; if he has a clear position or understanding on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19901/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: 2531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department issued only four afforestation licences for the week ending 15 March 2021 given that 9,600 hectares are stuck in his Department’s system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19902/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: I thank Mr. Gleeson and all of the crew from the Department for their attendance today. I will start with forestry. My question is simple and relates to the ongoing and persistent licensing crisis. We have never had more resources in the Department. We passed emergency legislation to provide more resources, including more ecologists, but the crisis seems to be getting worse. Could Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: In relation to applications, what is the Department's output?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: How are they divvied out, such as to Coillte versus privateers? If Mr. Gleeson does not have the figures, he might send them in to the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: My information is that there are approximately 150 staff now working in forestry. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: That is a huge increase. We should not be having the problems that we are having. I would appreciate those figures in the coming days. The other question I want to touch on is one Deputy Carthy raised about today's report from the Commission. There are two points about this. The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, spent €1.47 million on legal fees in 2019. It spent...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: When Mr. Gleeson says the Department has worked hard to increase the resources, how many prosecutions have been yielded out of the €1.47 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: It is a specific question. How many successful prosecutions have we had?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: Dr. Beamish should have that. That is not a big question. Surely Dr. Beamish has that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: It seems Dr. Beamish cannot hear me.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: Have we had any?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: I will go back Mr. Gleeson. When Dr. Beamish says "legally independent", there was a statement made this morning to the newspaper that a spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine said the Commission decision was an operational matter for the SFPA and that the Minister is precluded from getting involved in these matters. The SFPA has, in effect, cost us €40...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: So who made that statement? When Mr. Gleeson says they have not cost us €40 million, the report from the Commission and the report in the newspaper says that it is around the €40 million mark.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: So how can it cost us? There is a figure being quoted. Will it reduce quotas?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: They are going to withhold possibly €40 million. That is going to have a significant effect. It may not be a fine but if they withhold it, where is the money going to come from that that €40 million ordinarily funds?