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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the additional services that will be provided at Monaghan Hospital in 2021. [41639/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority of Ireland (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to ensure that veterinary services are available to local abattoirs for inspections post November 2020. [33515/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 25 November 2020, if environmental samples were gathered at any other meat processing plants since July 2020 other than in the course of the referenced pilot project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42657/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 25 November 2020, if he will provide all materials, reports, correspondence or findings in relation to the referenced pilot study. [42658/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plants (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role his Department’s veterinary staff have played in meat processing plants generally and specifically with regard to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42659/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Equipment (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in the course of their general duties Departmental veterinary staff use a paper or computer-based system; if so when such a computer-based system was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42660/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Ordnance Survey maps will be provided to all farmers who will be obliged to fence watercourses as a result of nitrates requirements; the support his Department will provide to ensure farmers meet their requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42662/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the form the Teagasc support fund for agriculture students will take; the level of funding that will be made available to students; when payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42663/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the mechanism farmers should avail of to change their reference years in relation to the sheep welfare scheme if they have increased their stocking levels but are currently paid on historical stocking rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42665/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which applicants should engage with his Department regarding the announced farmer-led farm safety proposals to be funded under the European Innovation Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42666/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (10 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: 481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forestry dashboard provided to members of the Houses of the Oireachtas will be updated to include applications received and the status of the applications in order to provide a complete overview of the existing backlog within the forestry licensing process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42667/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: I also want to raise the issue of housing for people seeking asylum. There has been a bit of a conversation around direct provision, a system which is an abomination. The fact that we are still utilising it all these years later is a scandal and a testament of a failed policy. I note over the past three years there has been an increasing dependency on emergency accommodation which falls...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: That is a lot of money and a big outlay to carry out an important role. Essentially that money is going to private companies to house people for whom we have an international obligation to provide shelter while their asylum process is ongoing. What level of inquiry does the Department make when entering into contracts with people providing emergency accommodation as to their track...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: Is it fair to say that the use of some hotels for this purpose has become, in some instances, almost a singular use of those hotels and that has been the case over a prolonged period of time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: In some cases I understand there is a third party, a cog in the wheel between the Department and the hotels. Is it individuals or companies that the Department would work with on a contract basis to find suitable accommodation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: Has only one company been given that role?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: That would be useful. Ms Buckley mentioned that this was primarily hotel accommodation. Is it not fair to say that in some cases it involves dwellings, for want of a better term, in remote areas? In other words, houses would be used for the purposes of emergency accommodation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: I return to the issue of emergency accommodation. We talked about the cost of €35 million. I am trying to get a sense of the role of the intermediary. I do not know whether the witnesses have to hand the names of the companies that the Department has contracted to identify emergency accommodation. Of the €35 million, how much was paid to those companies in 2019?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: Without putting the Comptroller and Auditor General on the spot, is there anything in the accounts that would point us to that figure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am having visions of when representatives of the new Department appear before the committee and say that in 2019, the matter was under the auspices of the Department of Justice and Equality. Can we ask for that figure to be provided? It was in the public domain but I cannot recall it at the moment. Assuming it is in the millions of euro, what exactly is the role of those companies? Do...