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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has published reports to date with regard to equine anti-doping further to the report of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on Horse Racing in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4491/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board plans to publish the commissioned audit of Irish racing’s anti-doping procedures further to the report of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on Horse Racing in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for commissioning an independent expert to work with all suppliers to ascertain the level of horticultural peat stocks available to growers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the intended timeline to commission experts on planning to provide free advice to those wishing to achieve regulatory compliance for the extraction of horticultural peat on sub-30 hectare bogs for supply to the domestic horticulture industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4494/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consideration that has been given to providing supports to the seed potato sector due to issues arising from Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4542/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to further invest in the seed potato sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 838. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 806 of 14 December 2021, if his Department considered dedicated supports for small dairy farmers given that 1,888 or 12% of dairy farms have a family farm income of less than €20,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4543/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 322 of 20 January 2022, the appropriate solutions to the increased input costs and sustained nature of the difficulties being experienced on the pigment sector that he advocated to be rapidly deployed at the recent European Union Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 840. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in securing certified seed potato for the 2022 and subsequent planting seasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 842. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the existing targets for seed potato production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 841. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tonnage of seed potato imported by country in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 843. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected increased production of the rooster variety of seed potato arising from that variety no longer having plant breeder rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of the exploration of pathways to encourage earlier finishing of beef animals as per action 315 of the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4891/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average age of beef cattle slaughtered by quarter and by year in each of the years 2010 to date in tabular form. [4892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farms on which poultry was culled arising from recent outbreak of bird flu by county; if compensation has been paid to the farmers affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4893/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (1 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: 858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the reported kill numbers at European Union approved slaughter plants originating in controlled finishing units represent exact or estimated figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jan 2022)

Matt Carthy: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposed timeframe to honour the Government commitment to recognise the state of Palestine. [3538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (27 Jan 2022)

Matt Carthy: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the findings of the report of the Police Ombudsman in Northern Ireland into Operation Greenwich, which confirmed British state collusion in 19 loyalist killings and two attempted murders carried out by the UDA with the British Government; the nature of discussions; and the outcome of same. [3539/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Jan 2022)

Matt Carthy: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review and increase income thresholds for inclusion on social housing waiting lists. [3201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2022)

Matt Carthy: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families with a housing need currently in County Monaghan. [3200/22]