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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Completely disingenuous.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Answer the question that was put to you.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Does the Taoiseach accept the Government is failing?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: He does not accept that. Does the Taoiseach accept that rent prices are too high?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: That is completely disingenuous.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Government is adopting our policies from five years ago, but now it is too late.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Government was told that would happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Read the Dáil record.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: What are other EU states doing?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: What is the Taoiseach going to do for those families who cannot pay for fuel?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: I asked the Taoiseach what he will do.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: Does the Taoiseach accept that rents are too high? If he does, and I think most objective people would accept the premise that rents in this State are far too high, then he will have to accept that his Government's record on controlling rent costs has been abysmal. I could go back through all the successive Ministers with responsibility for housing who have failed, including Deputy Kelly,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: We cannot talk about economic recovery without talking about a cost-of-living crisis facing many families and workers across an array of areas, whether it be the huge rents and mortgages we talk about here, the insurance costs that are still crippling people or childcare costs. In particular, the issue that comes up time and again is the cost of home heating and motor fuel, which is putting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: A report from earlier this year from the NESC highlighted the LEADER programme as a crucial programme for addressing and developing the rural economy. In fact, in the Taoiseach's remarks yesterday, he made a similar point and he was right. The difficulty, though, is that the LEADER programme has been hollowed out in recent years. In the 2007 to 2013 programme, the allocation to LEADER...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the remedy open to ensure compliance with environmental regulations relating to water quality in which a farmer is not in receipt of CAP payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the livestock schemes proposed in the CAP Strategic Plan that will require Bord Bia Quality Assurance membership; the ones that will not; the justification for inclusion and not inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59284/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the remedy open to ensure compliance with environmental regulations relating to air quality in which a farmer is not in receipt of CAP payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the statutory instrument which facilitates his Department to imposing penalties on payments relating to Pillar 1 payments of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59286/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Baccalauréat Professionnel level 4 on the European Qualifications Framework is recognised as fulfilling the need for a Green Certificate level 5 Quality and Qualifications Ireland in relation to requirements to participate in departmental schemes; the reason for such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59287/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of seed potato produced in the State; the amount imported to the State from Scotland by year in each of the years 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59288/21]