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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I will go back to the substantive point to which I do not think anybody here would object, that is, the rationale for a statutory sick pay scheme across the board. I have concerns around competitiveness. We have to remember that we an export-led economy and that feeds into the more indigenous economic rationale. The issue of insurance has been discussed. Has anybody looked at funding a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: On behalf of myself and the Regional Group, I would like to wish the staff of Leinster House and the Ceann Comhairle a happy Christmas and new year. Just over a year ago, as a political outsider, I stood outside Leinster House with Hand on Heart campaigners. We delivered thousands of petitions to the Tánaiste's then office as Taoiseach on the funding issues around University Hospital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: As I said, the Taoiseach said in recent days that this was not a resourcing issue but that this was to do with academic allegiances, reviews and all of that. I am saying to the Tánaiste that this is a political issue. We have six cardiac rescue centres in the country, two of them in Dublin. The only one to serve the 600,000 people of the south east is constrained to a 39-hour working...

Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister referred to the importance of having this Bill passed before the end of the year. I am sure he will receive widespread support in that regard but not without reservation from many of us in the House. He highlighted the scale of spending this year and the facility to provide €10.8 billion in capital expenditure in 2021. That is a mind-boggling figure when one thinks of...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: For many months now, at various stages of the coronavirus pandemic, the Government, the Department of Heath and the HSE have continually been asked what is the plan. It is fair to say that the master plan often appears to be hidden and the perception is that Government health policy and leadership have been reacting to events. One recent decision that could be so described is the announced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1015. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical protocols observed that required the South/Southwest Hospital Group to provide vaccination to front-line staff in its Cork city-based elective only hospitals some with no Covid-19 patients, while deferring vaccination to front-line staff in the second largest acute hospital in the group, University Hospital Waterford, in addition to acute...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1016. To ask the Minister for Health the remaining timeline and steps outstanding to a grant of build tender award given that the Tánaiste has confirmed that the main contractor tenders along with sub-contract tenders for mechanical and electrical works have been received by the capital procurements office regarding a build tender award of new cathlab at University Hospital Waterford;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1042. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding approved fire rating and retardant specifications to exterior cladding being fitted to the national children’s hospital build; if the fire rated specifications of same will be published considering concerns regarding exterior cladding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1603/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1043. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has been in any new discussions regarding possible new surge capacity requirements from the private hospitals network; the present surge plan in HSE run hospitals; if all private consultants will be awarded temporary work approvals from the HSE if private hospital capacity is utilised again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1604/21]

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I gather that higher education cost the State approximately €2 billion last year. To quote the late American Senator, Everett Dirksen: "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money". At a cool €2 billion, the sector costs real money and requires real and meaningful oversight and a thoughtful strategy. I appreciate that appointing a Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Question Heading for question(s) 79,87,88,90,91 (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the stage at which his attention was drawn to the fact that the existing Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would be interested in the position of Secretary General of the Department of Health ; if, in advance of appointing them to the interim position, he requested that if they were appointed to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Question Heading for question(s) 79,87,88,90,91 (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the increase in salary of 50% proposed in respect of the Secretary General of the Department of Health will not apply to any other Department including his own when a successor to the Secretary General is appointed and that assistant secretary and lower grades of the Department of Health will also not be the subject of grade...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants on the Secretary General grade; the number on the grade that are in receipt of additional emoluments from the public purse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2101/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants recruited through the Top Level Appointments Committee that are in receipt of additional pension rights; the extent of the public liability in respect of such rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2102/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (14 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the precise costs including pension accrual benefits to the State of the three categories of persons being appointed to the role after the existing competition, that is, a person with no prior public service, a person who joined the Civil Service for the first time after 2013 and a person with the same salary and pension entitlements...

EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Motion (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: As a Member of the Irish Parliament, I would like to congratulate Joe Biden today on his investiture as President of the United States of America. I hope he will continue to foster and promote the strong relationship and ties between Ireland and the US. After four years of intense discussion and political posturing, a negotiated future trade agreement between the EU and the UK is very...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the agreed top-level appointments code of practice of the Office of the Commission for Public Servant Appointments was followed in the recent advertisement for the role of Secretary General of the Department of Health. [2182/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Secretary General of his Department or a person who reports to the Secretary General is part of the top-level appointments committee that undertook the competition for the role of Secretary General of the Department of Health. [2183/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 481. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the priority of carers in terms of ranking status in receiving vaccines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2296/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will communicate the need for the provision of sanitiser and-or hand detergent at the entrance to stores to remain in place (details supplied); the steps he will take to mandate this practice be provided at open retail stores, garage forecourts and convenience stores; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2228/21]