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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: To conclude on one brief point, EirGrid is not good at outreach, although it is apparently very good at spending millions of euro on advertising. My constituency is affected by one of its primary planned projects and its engagement has been very poor. Its advertising campaign has done the opposite of what the Department set out as the objective because it has antagonised people even more....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: I want to go back to the issue of the relationship between the Department and EirGrid. As the Secretary General rightly said, EirGrid is involved in the development of some substantial infrastructure. I note from a previous freedom of information request, secured by the newspaper The Northern Standard, that the relationship seems to be a strange one, in that EirGrid was even consulted and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Brexit on Fisheries Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank our guests and apologise for missing the first session. I had another meeting and it ran on. Without repeating what has been said, I contend Irish fisheries have been the poor relation in our relationship with the EU for too long. The core problem, as Deputy Mac Lochlainn said, is the notion of relative stability. It has been a burden that no Government has seriously tried to...

Brexit (Fishing Industry): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister for his contribution. There are no two ways of looking at this. Whatever people's views on the overall Brexit package are, most if not all Members of this House would argue that, in the main, a good deal was negotiated, insofar as was possible, on behalf of Ireland. Putting that aside and looking at this from a fisheries perspective, this was an incredibly bad deal for...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: I have a number of questions which I will put together and the Minister can respond as best he can. I seek clarification on several points in the Minister's responses to Deputy Culliane. He mentioned that dentists are included in cohort 2 as front-line workers. They do not know this so there is a need for improvement. Will the Minister clarify exactly how the roll-out among this cohort of...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: The strength of our response to Covid-19 has been the concept of solidarity. It is a concept we have seen in every community throughout the country. However, it is a concept that appears alien to Government. We are in a situation now where Deputy David Cullinane has to bring a motion before the House. It is the second motion relating to the demand, request and plea that student nurses...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) will be connected to fibre broadband in view of the fact that other houses in the area are connected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2753/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driver licence will issue to a person (details supplied) who has exchanged a UK driver licence for an Irish licence and who requires a physical licence for employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2377/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when those students who chose to sit leaving certificate 2020 written examinations will receive their results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2312/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 489. To ask the Minister for Health if dentists will be included in the Covid-19 vaccination programme during the same period as other healthcare practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 553. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to increase the number of listings for mental health professionals qualified in the treatment of eating disorders in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2554/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, for the third year in a row, much of the funding allocated for the treatment of eating disorders under the model of care for eating disorders has been diverted elsewhere by the HSE; the steps he has taken to help ensure the funding allocated to the treatment of eating disorders is not diverted once more in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a shortage of soya products is impacting on animal feed supplies; the measures adopted by his Department to support farmers affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2310/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce measures to support agricultural and veterinary students to secure placements on farms during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2311/21]

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: The Minister is essentially saying that all the people who have been contacting Deputies across the House are liars. On Thursday last, her suggestion was that the schools would operate this week for leaving certificate students and children with special educational needs. That did not happen precisely because the engagement had not taken place beforehand with all those leaving certificate...

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: I will put my questions in the first two minutes and ask the Minister to reply in two minutes and then use the last minute for a follow-up comment. There is widespread loss of confidence in the Minister's ability to address the challenges that will face education in the coming weeks and months. Like many Deputies, I have been speaking to leaving certificate students, other students,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to publish the recipients of the €100 million capital investment scheme for the processing and marketing of agricultural products Brexit fund along with the amount received by each recipient; the conditions to be applied to this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1538/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of road that has been allocated to roads in County Monaghan in each of the years 2010 to 2020; the proposed allocations for 2021 for each category in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1092/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Carthy: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to provide specific supports for first-time buyers to allow families to purchase second-hand properties in areas in which the level of new home construction is very low; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1096/21]