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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Do the witnesses see a route by which we can harmonise the positions in this instance? The difficulty is that it is not devolved. As a result, we are dependent on Westminster, which is not in harmonising form at present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Apparently the smart way to obtain home heating oil in many places is to get a half a tank of oil filled by a local supplier and to get the other half of it filled from across the Border, where the price is substantially cheaper. There will be a bigger price difference between the two jurisdictions when our colleagues put the carbon tax up again next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: That is what happens when we diverge. It creates anomalies. There will always be somebody who will try to beat the system. I am not convinced any additional measures are being put in place here to address that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: No problem. It is a good discussion because we are getting down to the practicalities and there are many practical problems. To return to the Attorney General’s advice and Department's reading of it, Mr. Doyle indicated the Attorney General's advice was emphatic. What was the question put to him? Mr. Doyle indicated the Attorney General suggested the advice should not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: We knew that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Anybody could answer that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: If Mr. Collins could provide the question, it would be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: There were a number of references to the value of licensed merchants in the Department's opening statement. Does the Department have specific proposals in that regard? This is probably a broader question for the Department in terms of how we can support their viability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: I note Dr. Corkery's responses to the questions about e-prescriptions and all that comes from that and his earlier response regarding decoupling. Many people who are not farmers would find one element of this difficult to envisage. If a vet advises a farmer he needs a product and the vet happens to have it in his van and can give it to the farmer, it will be very hard for the farmer to say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: I wish to return to an earlier point regarding our approach to EU legislation. When I was a member of the European Parliament I worked on quite a number of files dealing with antimicrobial resistance. It is one of the big global challenges we face. If we screw it up, it could have a devastating impact on human health, not to mention animal health.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: The question is not necessarily product specific. It is about antimicrobial resistance legislation. I know it will keep coming at European level because the Commission is under pressure from some member states and from some elements within the European Parliament to continue to review and strengthen any provisions that are in place. I am saying that the starting point should be that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: I have to go Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Unfortunately, that is the problem. It is not in Stormont, and the Minister is not in too much of a harmonising form either. Do the witnesses see a route by which we can address it? I am from County Monaghan, and this is an issue. We can talk about all the protections that are in place or whatever is the case. It will not be Monaghan farmers, by the way, and I wish to clarify that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: There was no reference to seeking a derogation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: At the Council level, was it a qualified majority vote?

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: I apologise in advance to the Minister that I will not be here to hear his contribution. However, having seen the Government amendment, I am disappointed because Deputy Funchion has provided a route that will ensure we can deliver affordable childcare. This is crucially important in a State in which many families are already facing a cost-of-living crisis and we are dealing with the highest...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: Many families are facing a cost of living crisis. They are burdened with the highest mortgage rates in the eurozone and among the highest rents, childcare, insurance and utility costs in the world. On top of this, there have been more than 30 price-hike announcements from Irish energy suppliers this year. The Government's proposed response is to add to the cost of living by increasing the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: So you are pushing ahead with the carbon tax.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Carthy: 29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a review into the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; and the steps required by Monaghan County Council on foot of the review to secure funding towards the provision of a public swimming pool in Carrickmacross. [47948/21]