Results 461-480 of 2,283 for speaker:Matt Shanahan

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

Matt Shanahan: 483. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE secured sufficient supply of liquid oxygen and bottled oxygen to ensure that hospitals continue to have adequate reserves of same to cover increases in gas requirements for long-term ventilated patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2298/21]

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Covid Restrictions Support Scheme) (Percentage Adjustment) Order 2021: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The CRSS was designed to bring some certainty to businesses in these uncertain times. For those businesses that have applied and qualified for the CRSS, it has obviously proved a valuable lifeline. It must be stated, however, that tying eligibility to apply to the scheme to the operation of a business premises has excluded many SMEs and service sector businesses. Many have great difficulty...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Policy (27 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that coiled steel exports to mainland UK, EU and outside the EU have to go through the only two main decoiling lines in the island of Ireland in Lisburn in Northern Ireland (details supplied); the tariff situation for Irish manufacturing sectors; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to implementing a predicted-grades leaving certificate examination based on continuing assessment in each subject (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3685/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (27 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 626. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons availing of direct provision; the number from this cohort who have applications for refugee or asylum status; the present application period averages to a finding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3679/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ports Policy (27 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Dunmore East Harbour will be added to the list of designated approved ports for UK registered vessels to land fish in Ireland in view of the fact the Dunmore East has fish processing facilities and fishery protection officers on site and also given its proximity to sudden fishing grounds; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018 (Resumed): Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I do not propose to use the entire time as I do not wish to rehash a lot of what has been discussed already. I thank the Tánaiste and the Minister of State for coming here. I wish to make a few observations and then I will ask a couple of questions. I welcome, as I think most people would, the formation of the authority. One of things that I would hark back to is the Anglo Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018 (Resumed): Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Tánaiste. I accept what he is saying about corporate enforcement. With respect to Anglo Irish Bank, it was a long, tedious, drawn-out affair, which was probably what annoyed many people but I accept that people were secured at the end. I welcome the Minister's comments about looking at the regulatory burden on small businesses, which is critical. The Minister mentioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018 (Resumed): Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (29 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: It was about looking again at the burden of regulation on small businesses and a possible alternative pathway for some of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Previously, I highlighted that University Hospital Waterford, UHW, has the lowest budget and lowest staff-to-bed ratio of all nine model 4 hospitals in the country. Parity of esteem is not extended to this hospital by the South/South West Hospital Group. UHW has just passed the tragic milestone of 40 patient deaths from Covid-19 in one week. Additional emergency morgue capacity has had to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I do not understand why the question of the Technological University of the South-East, TUSE, headquarters is at issue. WIT took in €21 million in research last year while Carlow IT took in about €1.2 million. Delaying a discussion on that matter has made this a very difficult and fraught process and it should not have to be that way. We should recognise where the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: We can all agree that we have a terrible vista at the moment in hospitals and nursing homes with cross infection in all our hospitals and a large number of our nursing homes. The Taoiseach is well aware that I brought antigen testing to NPHET last April. I am an advocate for these tests. Despite NPHET's resistance to them, they are being used informally in hospitals. I know of a...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The Regional Group certainly supports the extension of the scheme because we see it is as very important in providing liquidity and in softening costs on business owners. As a payroll support, we also see it as helping to keep up payments on social welfare contributions, which are very important for those looking at pension entitlements later in life. On balance, the scheme is relatively...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (3 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to each of the 23 higher education institutions in respect of the fund announced on 22 January 2021 to assist students with disabilities; the computational method used to determine allocations in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5872/21]

Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the opportunity to support the passage of the Bill. Institutional reform and restructuring of aviation policy is probably well overdue in this country. I was a member of the Covid committee and we spent quite a number of modules hearing from the aviation sector. We know the crisis in the sector due to Covid and it does not look like there will be any resolution of it soon. I...

Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Counterfeiting refers to something capable of "passing for a currency, note or coin of that description, or if it is a currency, note or coin which has been so altered that it is [...] capable of passing for a note or coin of some other description". That is a long way around of saying a fraudulent copy. Ireland is the last country to transpose this 2014 directive on the protection of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Since 2011, three programmes for Government have pushed a technological university on the south east. I use the word "pushed" deliberately. Where is the Government's plan? IT Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, have fundamentally different visions for education. IT Carlow is oriented around the greater Dublin area. It is positioned around the strong Dublin universities....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: It is clear that in the past decade no planning was done by Government.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: How can the Government ask anyone to sign up to the technological university without a realistic and honest plan for-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (11 Feb 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the workstreams activity agreed regarding the new technological university for the south east development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7533/21]