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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that applied to be part of the Be on Call for Ireland initiative; the number that were subsequently recruited into the health service via the scheme; the amount paid to agency companies in respect of the scheme by company and amount in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10168/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appraisal has been carried out of the outworking of the mandatory reduction obligation contained within the BEAM scheme; if he will remove the criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10156/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason trotting racing is operating to a different reopening schedule than that of thoroughbred racing in respect of the easing of Covid-19 restrictions; if the matter will be reviewed in order to ensure equality across the codes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10157/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Imports (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the implications of the Chinese suspension of beef imports from Ireland following confirmation of an atypical case of BSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10158/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for developing PGI status for grass-fed beef here; if this will result in clear labelling to distinguish grass-fed beef from other product; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10159/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the EU emergency measure will be implemented that will allow payments of €5,000 to be paid to farmers experiencing cash flow difficulties arising from the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10160/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler calves born in each of the past ten years by county; and the number of farmers in the sector by county in the same period in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10161/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in each county that received 2019 CAP payments by amounts (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10162/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects driver tests to resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10171/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: 579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bespoke support scheme will be provided for private bus and coach operators affected by the Covid-19 lockdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10172/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: We received correspondence from Mr. Jim Breslin regarding this committee's request concerning oversight of secondary legislation. I am disappointed in what Mr. Breslin has written. He states that he has consulted with the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris and essentially tells this committee that he is not going to engage with us regarding pre-scrutiny. Mr. Breslin points to the fact that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: That is fine.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: What is the order of questioning in the first round?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: That is correct.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. Can the witnesses give us a sense of where we are at with the planning? I thank the witnesses again for being here. I know they are incredibly busy men. I will start by asking Dr. De Gascun to give us a sense of how good our information is to date. Yesterday, the Department confirmed that we had nine new Covid-19 cases. That is a great number...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: The number of new cases from yesterday is almost irrelevant to my question. I am asking if we now know where there are clusters and can we be fairly confident that clusters will not emerge somewhere that the National Virus Reference Laboratory does not know about at the moment?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Meat factories.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Is there any other particular sector? We have seen the evidence that was released in recent weeks on the meat factories. Is there any other sector or particular type of workplace that is raising concerns with the National Virus Reference Laboratory?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: I gather that whatever number of reported and confirmed cases there are, there is an X number of other likely cases. At one stage there was a suggestion that there could be as many as four times the number of cases as those that had been confirmed. Do we have a sense of what the X number is now? In other words, how many cases of Covid-19 have there been that we do not know about but that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Matt Carthy: Before I allow Professor Nolan to add something, if he wishes to do so, there are some anomalies in terms of outbreaks. The counties of Cavan and Monaghan have had fairly high instances, proportionally. I think Cavan has the highest, Monaghan the third highest. The reason many people find this unusual is that, internationally, it appears that the greatest concentrations of cases are...