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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Potato Sector (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 655. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to support the Irish seed potato sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44530/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Potato Sector (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 656. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to support the Irish seed potato sector post Brexit should the import of seed potato from the UK no longer be possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44531/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the involvement his Department has had in the development of the national marine planning framework; the consideration given to the inclusion of fisheries and aquaculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44532/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 658. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date by which it is intended to have all farmed mink in Ireland culled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44533/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 659. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of mink intended to be culled in relation to Covid-19. [44534/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the manner in which it is intended to cull mink; the persons or bodies that will carry out the cull; the persons or bodies that will supervise them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44535/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if mink have been culled to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44536/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons or bodies that will be responsible for culled mink carcases; the way in which they will be disposed of; the persons or bodies that will supervise their disposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44537/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 666. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to provide a new library at Ballybay, County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44515/20]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: To follow on from the Deputy's point, the Comptroller and Auditor General will recall that the amalgamations of vocational education committees, VECs, as they were at the time, into ETBs were set out as cost-saving measures. Is Mr. McCarthy aware of any analysis as to whether any costs were actually saved? The old VEC system had its faults but it was the only democratic means of education...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: Would the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General perhaps be in a position to take a look at that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: The committee might consider that as a part of our work programme, and write to the Department of Education about the cost benefit that accrued from the amalgamation, for us to examine. I have one other point on the ETBs if I may.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: We are talking about the general thing. One of the issues that has arisen from time to time is the costs of legal settlements within ETBs. Would the Comptroller and Auditor General carry out an analysis of legal settlements? I am aware of a number of incidences, anecdotally, in different parts of the country where quite substantial settlements were reached by ETBs in respect of members of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: I apologise to Deputy Munster. I must have been out of the room for that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: In its correspondence, the HSE outlines that it had undertaken to report on 2019 procurement, but that it was delayed due to Covid-19 and staff being redeployed. The HSE states that it was to be completed and presented to the Government by April of this year. The HSE goes on to say that it intends to present the 2020 figures in April 2021. I do not follow why the project for 2019 has been...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: No, I will go along with the Chairman's comments.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: There is a question on request on the historic figures of the measured term contract by the OPW. These figures shed some light on what is increased reliance by the OPW on the outsourcing of work discussed at a previous meeting. Given the spend is multiples of the intended use, this probably serves as a warning to the Government and others that when we cut back on services to make the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am talking about the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach is still talking about the past.