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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 885. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an obligation on home care providers to inform the families when the carers of patients are found to have contracted Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13074/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 948. To ask the Minister for Health if all necessary remedial works have been completed at the group home for persons with physical and sensory disabilities at Drummond Otra, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; the date this home will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13388/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 956. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents in each county that have received their first and second vaccination against Covid-19, respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 957. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner practices per county that have yet to receive the necessary allocation of vaccines to cover the first vaccination of their patients over 85 years of age as of 4 March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13435/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 965. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that pregnant women can be joined by their partner during prenatal scans and childbirth; the current situation that applies in each maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13448/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1027. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he has taken in response to reports of a rapid evolution of an aggressive strain of the neurological form of EHV-1 originating from Valencia that has resulted in outbreaks in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contacts he and his officials have had with their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive with regard to EHV-1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13201/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quarantine and testing arrangements that have been put in place since his Department was notified of outbreaks of EHV-1 on the continent; when such measures were put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13202/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he sought the advice of the chief veterinary officer in relation to the recent outbreak of EHV-1; if details of the advice received will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13203/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Incidence (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1038. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number and the number by county of cattle condemned as TB reactors in each of the years 2010 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1039. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expenditure on the TB eradication programme in each of the years 2010 to 2020; the amount of EU funding received in relation to same for each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13457/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Incidence (10 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 1040. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the significant increase in TB infection rates over the past year; the measures he will enact to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13458/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: For the record, I formally second Deputy MacSharry's proposal. I thank Mr. Black and his colleagues for being here. I have some questions with regard to the agriculture cashflow support loan. Mr. Black mentioned in his opening statement that this scheme is fully subscribed. Would he clarify again the amount of money that was made available under this scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: How many individuals or entities would have utilised that scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank Ms Sweeney. How much of the loans would be still outstanding? In other words, how much would have been repaid at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: That is a good repayment record by the looks of it. Are there plans to reopen the scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: To give us a sense of this scheme, which appears to have been a success in that it is almost fully utilised in terms of drawdown and participants seem to have had a very good record of paying back, why fix something that is not broken? Why not reinvest the money that has been paid back into a similar type of loan scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: Looking through those different types of schemes, there are different types of farms in Ireland, as the witnesses know, and one that is in a particularly perilous situation would be what are broadly described as family farmers as opposed to corporate entities. I would argue that the agriculture cashflow support loan scheme seemed to be very appropriate to that cohort of farmers, perhaps...

Public Accounts Committee: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland: Financial Statements 2019 (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: My final question relates to the Brexit adjustment reserve, the famous €1 billion about which we had many discussions. Has Mr. Black's organisation been in any discussions with regard to ring-fencing some of that for its own purposes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Chairman and all our guests for being here this evening. This is a timely and important debate. If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results then the epitome of madness is the Irish tuberculosis, TB, eradication programme. We are now at a point where having spent €97.3 million directly last year, which was a...