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Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...city, Dublin should have a MetroLink to the airport. The shocking scandal of a project 23 years in development, on which €300 million has been spent at this stage - a large amount of it wasted - should not be lost on anybody. While all that money was being contributed and circulated, was anybody aware of how it was being spent? Deputy McGrath and others spoke about the...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...is trying to put some manners on runaway HSE budgets. Anybody who has spent any time working in or around the healthcare industry knows we have a lot of inefficiencies. It leads to a lot of needless waste. That is yet to be tackled and is something we need to pay particular attention to. Like Deputy Canney, I worry about the message to workers, patients, families and those on long-term...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The bust following the Celtic tiger era should have taught many of us the importance of budgeting and living within our means. This applies also to the management of our national finances. I said on budget day that I felt I needed to stand up and question the wisdom of breaking the fiscal rules in developing budget 2024, not least when the level of pre-windfall corporation tax means that in...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...have come to be asked and have yet to be answered. One of the main questions I have is what drove the derogation of trust and the need to conceal the spending of public moneys. Why did RTÉ management deceive the public and the Oireachtas for five years in a row regarding the public salary of one of its best-paid employees? I also want to ask the Minister why the Grant Thornton...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: .... It is €241 billion. Now we are talking real money. This whopping number is double the national debt at the end of 2011, which stood at €119 billion. As before, a lot of public resources will be wasted in the mismanagement of that expenditure. I point the Minister of State toThe Irish Timesyesterday where the HSE announced an agreement to bring orthopaedic patients to...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister of State has said the Bill is designed to create more sustainable patterns of production and consumption that will minimise waste to significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. He stated that waste and resource use are minimised in a circular economy and the use and value of products and materials is maintained for as long as possible. When a product has reached the end...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Matt Shanahan: .... In Ireland, we have had a casual relationship with water, believing that it falls from the sky and just meanders into our faucets, but that is not the case. Water is a resource and it needs to be managed and paid for. We need not make a scientific conundrum of the issue, but we nevertheless must not think of it as a simple activity that can be achieved for nothing. Water and its...