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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of submissions received in respect of the proposal for a protected geographical indication, PGI, application for beef; the number of submissions that were opposed to the PGI proposal; his plans to publish the submissions or a synopsis of same; his further plans for consideration of the submissions and to reflect the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I want to follow up on the point with regard to serial testing. I welcome the comment by Mr. Reid that it is useful and very beneficial because some utterances in the Dáil Chamber would suggest that perhaps serial testing is a novelty that we could do without. I want to talk in particular about the food processing sector because I am of the belief that at least some of the recent...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I want the figures because I have only five minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I did not. I asked one question. I asked the number of factories serial testing had been completed in last week and the number of people that involved.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am sorry. I have very limited time. I have asked Mr. Reid a question. Nobody is disputing that the public health teams are doing great work. Could he please answer my question?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I asked for last week's figures.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I know that. All of that information is to hand. Mr. Reid does not have the figures. Can the figures in respect of last week be conveyed to the committee as quickly as possible?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: What does the 500-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: In how many centres?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: Okay. There is another speaker after me. I have to ask one question. Could I follow up with a final question?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I note that Dr. Henry and Dr. Cuddihy attended NPHET meetings via video conferencing on 7 and 17 August. Following those meetings, a letter from the Chief Medical Officer to the Minister for Health recommended that NPHET agree the interim recommendations of the investigation into a series of outbreaks of Covid-19 in meat processing plants. Could the HSE speakers indicate the reason that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: It was the interim recommendations relating to the investigation.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: Can Dr. Henry indicate why the recommendations from NPHET had to be conveyed to the Minister for Health twice in ten days?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: I am finished. Deputy O'Reilly still has to come in.

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: In my previous life not so long ago, although it seems like an awfully long time, I was in the European Parliament where the issue of Brexit and the concerns around a no-deal Brexit took up significant amount of our time and deliberations. During all those debates, I could not think of a worse prospect for our country than a no-deal Brexit scenario. Little could I have imagined that we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: This correspondence, dated 20 December 2019, outlines the practice this committee had previously highlighted whereby university staff need to make a claim to get paid holidays, which seems to be unusual. I suggest that we get a sense of any cost associated with that. Considering the length of time since that correspondence, we need to get clarification from the university as to whether it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: Citizens have a right to liaise with Departments and statutory bodies through our native language if they so wish. I am simply requesting that we get an update on the position, not just in respect of Irish language posts specifically but also appointments where the successful applicant would be deemed to have a knowledge of the Irish language so we can get a sense of where we stand in terms...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: Under the Disability Act, each Department has a responsibility to employ 2%-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: -----of people with disabilities within the ranks. People have been very fluid with what they deem to be a disability in that regard in order to fulfil the criteria. It is a separate, but important, question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Matt Carthy: Members will recall this case and the severity of it and it would be appropriate that this committee is proactive in ensuring the answers in relation to the commission of investigation are made public as soon as possible. There is a huge public interest element in this and we need to ensure this committee is seen to hold to account those who need to be held to account and that answers are...