Results 261-280 of 2,283 for speaker:Matt Shanahan

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Professor Kelleher. She has answered my questions. Does she have an understanding of what the management of oxygen in terms of palliative care will be in the future if we end up with a second wave in our nursing homes? Please God, we will not. Will the Covid response teams that have been highlighted be assigned for that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: The witnesses will be aware that at the start of the Covid pandemic many private nursing homes had to buy PPE. They were not being supplied by the State. Subsequently, the State gave them support moneys but this was based on capitation grants and did not cover private patients in nursing homes. I hope this has been rectified at this stage and that in future there is modelling to provide PPE...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Staff resourcing was a problem in the private and public sectors and possibly still is. I am aware of a number of nurses with foreign citizenship who are trying to get work here, and there are nursing homes that wish to recruit them, but they cannot get movement through the Department. Is there a crossover with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on trying to fast-track some of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Absolutely and I strongly agree.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Professor Kelleher and Ms Doherty.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Chairman. I thank our guests for attending, particularly those who have been with us a number of times. All of us welcomed the expert panel's report but it contains many recommendations and thresholds that need to be met in the future and the first question that would arise in anybody's mind is the level of sourcing that will be required. The Deputy who preceded me spoke about...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I referred in the earlier session to the question of ensuring there are adequate isolation facilities in place in nursing homes. Under the new regulations, nursing homes are required to maintain an isolation space in readiness for a Covid outbreak. I understand that the supports the Department were offering in this regard were based on capitation grants for public rather than private...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 10. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider introducing a code of standardisation of road and pathway signage that must be used by community groups and local residents associations in view of the many different signs and sign designs across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24438/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Before I start, I wish to thank the member of staff who chased me down the corridor this morning to return money that had fallen out of my pocket. I am sure they thought they could do with it far more than me but I would like to acknowledge their honesty and integrity. Will the Minister of State consider introducing a code of standardisation of road and pathway signage to be used by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister of State. The tenor of the question was wider than that remit. What I was driving at was more about re-imagining rural Ireland and trying to look at more homogenous signage that would describe the character and the charm of our rural places. In terms of community development, particularly in terms of the town renewal schemes and so on, where the Department is giving...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Signage (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: If the Department were to look at specific funding initiatives that would emphasise the idea of using a more rural and more traditional type of signage to give character and to keep the little bit of character we have left in our rural areas, and to try and build on that, it would be a very good initiative.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has considered setting up rural information pods and lectures in the community to facilitate adult learning within the rural environment in relation to issues such as job seeking, heritage, the environment and sustainability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24439/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: Will the Department consider setting up rural information pods and lectures in the community to facilitate adult learning within the rural environment on issues such as job seeking, heritage, the environment, sustainability and onward education?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: In my constituency, the Dunhill Multi-Education Centre and Dunhill Community Alert invite people in to speak on issues. Recently, John Lonergan very kindly came and spoke about the issues of the Prison Service and so on. These people have to travel at their own expense. There is no funding. We are not looking for funding for that but realistically, I am talking about community centres...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I commend the men's sheds organisation, part of which was started in Waterford. A new men's shed is being started in Dunmore East for the winter. There is a particular problem down there as there have been many suicides over recent years. These are very notable community organisations and I would appreciate any help the Department can give them in the future. Perhaps I can liaise with the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Remote Working (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 17. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps being taken by her Department to provide additional funding to both enhance existing hubs in view of the fact that remote working is now becoming the new normal for persons both in the public and private sectors, and that this is likely to be the norm for some time; if funding for additional hubs across rural Ireland will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 95. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has a strategy in relation to bringing the arts back in a social distanced manner to the rural community; if so, her plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (17 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department currently liaises with the Department of Community and Rural Development and the Islands in terms of the recruitment of community employment workers by rural community groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24436/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: In terms of looking after patients, both general medical and Covid-related, we need to look at the best configurations for their care. I would like to speak briefly about University Hospital Waterford, which is a model 4 hospital in the south east. It provides medical services and acute care services to a population of 520,000 to 615,000, depending on which report one reads. It certainly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Taoiseach. I ask that the Government and the Taoiseach's own office move the Office of Government Procurement review. We have had a specification and a build tender capable on this project since January of this year and we are now expected to wait another four months while we approve an approval for a total spend of €6 million, while every week we are deferring diagnostic...