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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: So the witnesses will not answer my question.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I accept all of that. What I am asking is that if the internal report-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I just want to go back to the issue of the ventilators. Out of interest, how many of the ten suppliers from China were actually Irish?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Of the ten suppliers from China, were any of them Irish companies?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Were they conducted through Irish entities?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I am looking for a number between one and ten.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Apparently there are no records or audit trails for the €81 million in orders for ventilators from China. That is according to the internal audit, which could not find any. It seems it is the same with contracts and, in some cases, purchasing orders. How can that possibly happen?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Is Mr. Reid saying there are audit trails for all orders in respect of the ventilators?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: In terms of the €11.6 million Mr. Reid mentioned that will be repaid - "imminently" was the term used - who is that coming from?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Which one?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Finally, legal proceedings were mentioned in relation to four suppliers of ventilators. Is it true that no legal papers have been lodged yet?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a review into the north-south interconnector. [43527/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to commission a feasibility study that would access the prospect of delivering rail infrastructure through County Monaghan. [44066/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will facilitate the recruitment of additional driving testers to address the existing backlog. [44065/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: The difficulty is we are dealing with farmers who do not have this type of money. They received this payment because it was recognised they were in exceptional difficulties. To give the Minister of State a sense of the amounts involved, in my constituency in County Cavan 133 farmers will be expected to pay back €157,000 and in Monaghan 138 farmers will be expected to pay back...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, for being in attendance. It is important to recall that the beef exceptional aid measure was put in place to provide farmers with temporary financial aid in response to a prolonged period of depressed beef prices. It was a recognition that farmers were on their knees. The difficulty with the scheme from the outset was that it included a...

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: Freedom of information legislation has become a bedrock of democracy across the western world. It is in place to provide transparency, accountability and confidence in government. It is in place to allow citizens access the decisions made and the process that led to them. We have seen in recent weeks that, in Ireland, rather than providing such confidence, the actions of some Departments...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, has brought an unbelievable story to this House. His narrative, essentially, is that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, contacted him to tell him that Katherine Zappone was looking for a UN gig and he then made contact with her. He says she did not lobby him or ask him for a job. Almost immediately afterwards, however, he had a conversation with his Secretary...