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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (22 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his Department's planned allocations to capital developments at South East Technological University over the next 12 months and beyond. [42796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (22 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the process that decides approval for the provision of new or additional pharmacy faculties and course development; and if new courses will be approved in the technological sector before March 2025. [42797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (22 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether new lecturing and research contracts for faculty working in the technological university sector will be in place before March 2025. [42798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (22 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the annual payments in respect of the loans provided to IT Tralee and Waterford IT since the loan was provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42799/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (22 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the capital expenditure within each of the technological universities since their creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42802/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (22 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the public funding with respect to each of the universities, technological universities and colleges for the provision of new-build student accommodation; the number of units; the public contribution and the timeline for their completion, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (22 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for his and his Department’s assessment of the feasibility of the South East Technological University, Strategic Plan, Connecting for Impact 2023-2028, given that €350 million of capital funding is required between 2023 and 2028 to realise the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42804/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: With the barrage of Bills guillotined, no doubt the Taoiseach is a man calling time on the Thirty-third Dáil and perhaps my time in this Chamber too. How can the people of my city and county can trust any new promises made by the parties of Government when promise after promise has turned to dust? The Government has burned through €44 billion on capital projects with less than...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I feel like I am flogging a dead dog with this one, but anyway, one last time with feeling, I suppose. I recall listening to an interview between Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy and the Tánaiste. He kind of caught him off guard by asking why he wanted to be Taoiseach. His answer was simple: "community". I always felt that the Tánaiste uses the term “community” in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I have an obsession with inequality, Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Tánaiste's ability to extol a narrative that does not exist knows no bounds. When people go to bed at night in Cork, they have no worries about heart attack access. However, when people go to bed in Waterford and the south east, they have significant worries, particularly those who have ongoing cardiac issues. In the last three months, three friends of mine have ended up in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Will the Tánaiste address why the extra positions were in the HSE embargo?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: There are positions under the HSE embargo and emergency appointments that have not been covered.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I too thank all the staff and ushers, and the Ceann Comhairle, for their support over the last while. I advise the House that President Higgins has agreed to ring the peace bell at Áras an Uachtaráin for 11 minutes on 11 November, from 11.03 a.m. Perhaps this House could do something in unison to support that initiative. I will drop the Ceann Comhairle a note on it. To check...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: There certainly is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: There is a €300 million ask.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (5 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of unplanned downtimes on the Revenue ‘ ROS system at this time of the year, with peak filings; if filing deadlines will be appropriately extended for agents and tax payers in the event of any downtimes on ROS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44026/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance his views in relation to investment funds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44253/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (5 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the exit tax collected on ETFs in the past five years, in tabular form; the relative prevailing tax rate for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44251/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (5 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the exit tax collected on ETFs, specifically related two taxpayers reporting under the self-assessment scheme over the past five years, in tabular form; the relative prevailing tax rate for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44252/24]