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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Okay. It is referred to in the plan. That is the only reason I asked the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Given the witnesses all get on so well, would it not make sense for them to all operate under one Department? Is Mr. Nolan allowed to answer that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: As an organisation, does the EPA have any contradictions or competing obligations in its role? One of the points that came up at our last meeting with hill farmers was the suggestion that even with very low density stocking rates there would still be an obligation to fence off watercourses, although the land designation would make that impossible without going through an awful rigmarole with...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 1: In Schedule 2, inserted by paragraph (1), by the substitution of "€373.39" for "€383.42". This amendment seeks to amend the 50 cent increase on tobacco to 30 cent, in line with our alternative budget proposals. Very importantly, this reflects the concerns that the Revenue Commissioners have already relayed to the Department of Finance. Essentially,...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: The matters are related.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: The only difference that today's budget will bring to most workers and families is that their fuel and heating costs will increase again tonight. This very night petrol and diesel prices will increase again. The Government has been told that families are already struggling with energy and fuel hikes. This year energy companies have increased their prices 30 times. The price of a litre of...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: I appreciate the leniency of the Ceann Comhairle. This is important because the change is happening at midnight tonight.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Families, the people who get up early in the morning, are struggling. They have already told the Government that they are struggling to meet housing and childcare costs. Today nothing was provided for them, except a further increase in the cost of getting to work. How out of touch can we be? It is scandalous that the Government did not have the guts to put the latest hike before the House...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Families will be crippled.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Turf Cutting (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the regulatory measures that are being considered as part of an examination into the use of harvest peat sod; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49744/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to amend procedures to permit adult escorts such as special needs assistants to accompany children in their care on mainstream school transport when this is deemed appropriate by school authorities and when there is space on the bus, considering the benefits this will bring from the perspective of costs and the development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of those eligible for school transport applicants that had or have not yet secured a place on a bus due to late payment of fees by county and month from September 2021 to date in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49743/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 355. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the fact that the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes appears to have failed to reach findings in respect of St. Gerard's Mother and Baby Home; if he accepts the Church of Ireland executive summary claim that the commission knows very little about St....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 465. To ask the Minister for Health the reason applicants for the EU Digital COVID Certificate who were vaccinated in the Northern Ireland but are residents in Ireland require proof of an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49745/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 510. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation will be delivered to provide legal recognition to both parents who have children through surrogacy either in Ireland or abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49342/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 513. To ask the Minister for Health if his proposals regarding legislation for parents who have children through surrogacy will include provision for maternity leave for mothers, a streamlined service that ensures that both parents are legally recognised as such, retrospect parentage for those mothers who have been granted just guardianship to date and measures to reduce the substantial legal...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of women registered as farmers by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49092/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 653. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average payment per hectare including greening paid to women farmers by county in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49093/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle slaughtered from controlled finishing units in September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49398/21]