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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the meetings that are taking place with bus and coach providers in relation to school transport; the steps that her Department is considering to provide additional supports to fuel pricing which is threatening many bus services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34958/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ukraine War (30 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of her Department's position with respect to new school places for Ukrainian refugee children; the way the school transport system is being examined to ensure it caters effectively for these students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34957/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether her Department should reconsider its policy of grouping build projects under one single project management contract given the increasing difficulties within the building sector and regarding the management of new-build contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34955/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: This is about the harmonisation of European law. Has the Department looked at actual cases from the past that could have been taken once this legislation is transposed? Ms McNamara mentioned consumer class action against Volkswagen. I only remember that being done through the American courts. I ask the witnesses to give us an indication of where they see this legislation coming into play...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Does Ms McNamara see this being used mainly in the financial services sector? I am just thinking of the issue of tracker mortgages. For instance, if a large group of people who have been questioning tracker mortgages for a long time wanted to get together, who would the qualified entity be in that case? Would the financial ombudsman or somebody like that take a case using this mechanism for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Department does not know who will be a qualified entity because it is waiting to see who will apply. What is the Department's position on people who are, in effect, making applications to be entities but do not know what resourcing they will have, apropos what Deputies Bruton and Staunton alluded to? Could somebody potentially take a case who has not got the wherewithal to meet this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: To get back to the point we are all circling, if a State body decides to become a qualified entity, takes a case that is ultimately unsuccessful and has to meet the cost of that case, it looks like the State will be the backstop. Depending on what bodies they are, if they do not have finance themselves, it is quite likely they will not have the finance to meet redress in a case they are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms McNamara for that clarification.

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We all know how important a subject this is across our communities and especially for business owners. The Alliance for Insurance Reform was before the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment recently. We discussed many of the problems of which the Minister of State is well aware and has covered recently. When will the duty of care legislation be published? When will it be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach said I reduced it to politics; I actually did not. He did when he stood in the grounds of University Hospital Waterford with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and made a commitment to deliver 24-7 cardiac care to the south east. In recent weeks, I presented to the Dáil data from a three-year National Office of Clinical Audit report along with three years of patient...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Will it deliver 24-7?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: That was two and a half years ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: That was two and a half years ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: A number of Sundays ago, a gentleman suffered a cardiac event and was resuscitated on the ground outside University Hospital Waterford, UHW. Even if he had been inside UHW, a model 4 hospital in our great Republic, he could not have accessed cardiac care as the cath lab was closed, which it is 129 hours of every week. Sadly, that man passed away two days later in UHW. Ar dheis Dé go...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Banking Sector (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he and his Department are taking to provide further consumer choice to the Irish retail banking sector particularly with the exit of two banks (details supplied) from the domestic market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31004/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Banking Sector (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: My question relates to the steps the Minister of State and the Department are taking to provide further consumer choice in the Irish retail banking sector, especially with the exit of the two main banks.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Banking Sector (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: As the Minister of State outlined, KBC and Ulster Bank are leaving the Irish market and because of that approximately 900,000 account holders need to find a new home. That process is ongoing, to a degree, but it is causing a lot of anxiety for people. Some of those customers have left the banks they are now going back to, possibly because of disputes over a number of years or when they were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Banking Sector (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The retail banking sector is very important but what most people are now concerned about is access to finance and access to credit, especially if they are in the construction and manufacturing sectors and, in particular, the agricultural sector at present. There are major headwinds in those areas in terms of where people can go to access finance. That is a big problem. I accept that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance the concerns that he may have regarding recent reports that Ireland’s domestic economy has contracted by 1% quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of the year; the steps that he and his Department are taking to ensure rising inflation does not spiral beyond manageable levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the way that he and his Department plan to address the new challenges such as supply chain issues and inflation highlighted in the recently published progress report on the 2021 Economic Recovery Plan which also confirmed that employment levels have exceeded pre-pandemic levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31007/22]