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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: According to its most recently published strategy, the Government intends to provide 54,000 affordable home interventions, which is an interesting term, between now and 2030. How many of those affordable homes will be delivered in County Monaghan between now and 2025? Will the Minister outline his definition of "affordable" in those instances?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for that answer. In order for a strategy to work, and we can leave aside the debate on the wider strategy itself, it is crucially important that we know the where and the when. It is hard for me to comprehend how we could say that the local authority will provide the Minister with a plan or vision by the end of this year and that, within that context, any affordable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Therein lies part of the problem. The Minister is correct that house prices in Monaghan are lower than in other parts of the State. My fear is that the local authority and the Department will consider that Monaghan is not a priority for affordable housing. The difficulty is that we see the pressures that are already building, even in a county like Monaghan. House prices in County...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes that will be delivered in County Monaghan in 2021 and in each of the years 2022 to 2025; and the definition of affordable in these instances. [46429/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: My first question was answered by Mr. McCarthy in his last remark. Does Mr. McCarthy reckon it was three years that these payments were made for?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I appreciate the Comptroller and Auditor General's response to Deputy McAuliffe that the exact numbers are not to hand. Can I take it that this was uniform across the agency or the authority?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Mr. McCarthy references an April 2020 review which made a number of recommendations regarding data management inadequacies, data analytics capability, IT capability and industrial relations capability. Is Mr. McCarthy satisfied that the review is being implemented? Can he make a comment on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I fully support the Chairman's proposal. We may have given Revenue an avenue out by being prescriptive in terms of requesting that they commission an independent investigation. I am very disappointed, however, that Revenue has said that it does not have the powers to set up such a commission and that there is no legal basis for them to do so. They are not offering a proposal to do...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Yes, Cathaoirleach, and it is in relation to the public relations expenditure, which is something that we have seen in the accounts of a number of statutory bodies. We have had particular discussions around Irish Water and its grid. Irish Water springs to mind where one has statutory bodies that have no competitors spending tens of thousands of euro, and in some cases hundreds of thousands...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: On the DART interconnector, I am sure that, like me, other members of the committee have received correspondence from Ashtown Stables. We see this every time there is a big infrastructural project in terms of the impact on particular businesses. In some cases, it can wipe them out. I propose that the committee write to the Department of Transport to request a note on how it plans to deal...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I will leave it until our meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Chair's proposal is fine. The correspondence was sent on 3 August, although it seems much longer since that debacle initiated. I request that we write to the Department of Foreign Affairs about existing and previous special envoys appointed and costs associated with them and for a briefing note on the budget line under which they fall.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: It is just to get a note on the previous special envoys who were appointed, the costs associated with them and the line budget under which they fall. I am sure the Department would be happy to provide that information to us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I must say that it is much fairer that I am let in first, as the usual Chair usually keeps me until the end. I thank Deputy Cahill in the first instance for bringing this legislation to the Dáil. I commend him on ensuring it has gotten this far. I said when we were dealing with it in Private Members' time in the Dáil that this is one of the few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Regarding the practices Mr. Neary is speaking about, are they being bought by other vets or outside bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Is Mr. Geary confident that this legislation will, if passed, address the situation he has spoken about of people buying up practices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Can we retrospectively apply it or will it be the case that whatever is lost between now and the President's signing on the Bill, if it gets to that point, will be lost forever?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Neary believe they are acting illegally as matters stand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Has Veterinary Ireland made a complaint?