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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...

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

Matt Carthy: I thank the witnesses for being here. I have a number of questions which I will try to condense as much as possible. I thank the witnesses for the information relating to deer and badgers because that answers my first two questions. I ask Mr. Ryan to circulate in writing the figures he gave on testing, particularly of deer. That would be very useful to the committee. Was there a bit of...

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

Matt Carthy: That is fine.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (4 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to review the eligibility criteria for community employment schemes for those over 55 years of age who have been moved from jobseeker’s allowance due to changes in budget 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12244/21]

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: The solution to the housing crisis is to build houses. That might sound simplistic but it is the essence of what is required. The decisions of previous Fianna Fáil Governments to effectively stop building council houses is essentially the source of the situation that has resulted in the reality wherein most Irish people aged under 30 years watching this debate will probably never own...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (3 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised through vehicle registration tax in each of the years 2015 to 2020, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11344/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (3 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of vehicle registration tax in terms of EU law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the construction of single residential units can recommence safely in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11311/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (3 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff based in speech and language therapy that are currently redeployed to other duties by CHO; the corresponding figures for each month from January 2020 to March 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11953/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Matt Carthy: 976. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff who have been vaccinated by community healthcare organisation, CHO; the number of outstanding staff to be vaccinated by CHO; the number of vaccinated staff that are not patient facing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11987/21]