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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Like others, I have a concern that we are in a very one-sided discussion this morning. I know employer groups were asked to come in but it is always good to have the balance and, hopefully, we will have that again in the future. I have stated a number of times in this committee that I would support a living wage but it must be done on a phased basis that is cognisant of the pressures in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Could Dr. Bambrick repeat that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Does it suggest to Dr. Bambrick that those two sectors are very prone to competition? In particular, I think retail will see the most fall off in jobs over the next three to six months. I think it will be the sector that suffers the most. In fact, it is already happening largely because of competition, inflation and affordability. Although we want to raise wages, how does it help workers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: With respect, we have to take the wider economy into consideration. We will probably see, over the next six months, where the fallacy lies in terms of the cost of employment. I would say that the costs relating to employment are not divorced from the other inflationary costs in the business environment. Unfortunately, costs are going north at a time when revenues are going south. I am all...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will allow registered company owners to pay commercial rates of motor tax on certain vehicles (details supplied) once they can demonstrate a genuine need within their business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49804/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position regarding the future headquarters of the South East Technological University (details supplied) which is irreconcilable with that stated in the minutes of the governing body meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (11 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of what constitutes a quorum with respect to the new governing board of the South East Technological University; the way that decisions at board level stand when taken in the absence of one or more of the primary four regional representatives; if it is by majority vote on the day; and if he will make a statement on...

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Communications Regulation Bill is certainly a topical subject in light of the cyberattack on the HSE and news from the US today that a chief technology officer from Uber is being prosecuted for a data breach in 2016. This Bill is designed to enact a European directive on data management, network management, and security and legislative provisions. Customer care has been a significant...

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: As has been said a number of times already, insurance costs as a result of personal injury awards have been a blight on the Irish business landscape for a number of years. It is not stretching it to any degree to say that a lot of businesses have been on the verge of self-insuring in recent years. In actual fact, I know of some that were trading without insurance for a period because they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The funding is key.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will take up the Taoiseach on that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I fear the budget will be a case of "A lot done. More to do". It is certain the supports for SMEs will not be enough to prevent a wave of insolvencies and redundancies in the coming months. I have brought the case of one manufacturing business to both the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. It employs 45 people in the south east. Its production...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I gave a range of metrics at the enterprise committee this morning on the real performance of the south east. I have not got the time to go through them here but unfortunately they do not tally with what the Taoiseach has just described. The supports the Government is offering to the SME sector in particular are not enough. A lot has been done, as I said, but it will not be enough to hold...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the present status of the setting up of an independent radiation therapy review which was agreed as part of a Workplace Relations Commission hearing in 2021 (details supplied); if a full update will be provided in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48812/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Tánaiste and the departmental officials for attending today. In his opening statement, the Tánaiste described the south east as being one of the best performing regions over the past two years. I am just wondering what qualitative and quantitative research the Department used to form that description. I might provide the Tánaiste with some of my own. The south...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Tánaiste says "potato" and I say "potahto". It depends on what is being measured when he is saying that the west has fallen behind. Looking at where the west is in comparison to the south east, there is a far greater degree of wealth in the west at this time. That was not the position 25 years ago. I would contend that the Western Development Commission has done an excellent job,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: As am I. I intend to work proactively-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I think it is important to highlight that the Tánaiste talks about investment and growth, and I ask him to show it to me. I have just given him a range of metrics that obviously demonstrate that what he describes is not the case at present, but we are coming along.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I refer to the Minister's comment about optimism. I am certainly an optimist. If I was not, I would not have stood for election in national politics in the hope that I might influence Government policy. I also remind the Minister that I have only been a public servant for the past three years. In my previous career, I was self-employed and worked in the private sector. Yes, I am an...