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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I asked this question of the Tánaiste some time ago on this committee and he said the SME community was captured under the Small Firms Association component of IBEC. Would Mr. McDonnell agree with that? Where does he lie with that comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Mr. McDonnell made a comment about SCARP in the context of leaseholders, landlords and so on. We had the Minister of State, Deputy English, with us yesterday morning and I asked him this question. I do not want to say he was evasive but he certainly did not give any comfort or say leases and landlord arrangements would come under the remit of SCARP. It sounded as if he was saying legally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: May I return to a comment that Mr. McDonnell made on upward-only rent reviews? He said there is potentially a constitutional problem with addressing upward-only rents and that he has legal advice — from the Supreme Court, I believe — to that effect. Could he clarify that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Mr. McDonnell. I look forward to receiving that correspondence. Could I ask Mr. Berney a question on aviation? He has highlighted his thoughts on the reintegration of State airports but there is also a problem regarding airlines. What activity has Congress undertaken to support the air travel protocols that are being used, particularly in the United States, but which we have not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Mr. Berney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Companies (Small Company Administrative Rescue Process) Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (15 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister of State and Ms Keane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the guests. I will speak about the living city initiative. I am interested in hearing comments from Mr. Shakespeare but not about Dublin, which has been well covered this morning. I am thinking more about my city of Waterford. We are probably following the same narrative as other cities at the moment in trying to develop remote working opportunities, seeking to expand digital hubs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: How will that scheme be achieved? Mr. Shakespeare mentioned direct subvention. How does the local authority achieve that with an owner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I have a quick question for Mr. McElwee. Can he outline any activity the LEOs are doing in terms of entrepreneurship around the living city initiative besides new coffee shops, eateries and all of that? There is an awful lot of that happening in all our towns at this stage. What other direct activities is he involved in when trying to get other small businesses in the service sector into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I have a general question for the local authority managers in respect of the escalation in build costs and the affordability of housing development. It is somewhat similar to a question asked by Senator Ahearn. Are local authorities again considering trying to keep some type of in-house build team rather than just project management? I refer to the retention of skills in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reactivation of Economy Following Pandemic Restrictions: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Dr. Daly mentioned small builders. According to a model used in Germany, small builders can come in and piggyback on projects. Is such a model being considered? I do not get the sense from the local authorities that that is happening in public procurement.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the advertisement that has taken place to date in relation to the replacement of an interventional cardiology post previously occupied by a person (details supplied) with a substitute whole-time equivalent position which was approved by the Consultant Applications Advisory Committee many months ago; the status of this...

Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The small company administrative rescue process, SCARP, has been proposed. I am a member of the Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment and was glad to waive the pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill because it is important that it be enacted. It applies to small and micro companies, which represent 98% of all companies in Ireland. These companies support almost 800,000 employees in...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Tánaiste for attending the meeting. I wish to run through a couple of points made in his opening statement. In respect of Science Foundation Ireland funding, the Tánaiste said this has moved from his Department to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science with the €106 million of capital appropriations carrying forward. Can...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I will return to the issue of ISME and the Labour Employer Economic Forum. The Tánaiste highlighted that IBEC, the Small Firms Association and Chambers Ireland are represented but I will highlight to him the work that ISME has done with regard to insurance reform and examinership-light, two key pivotal strategies for the reopening of business and the future of small businesses and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: That is okay.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach referred a number of times this morning to the success of the joint procurement agreement, JPA, for vaccines in Europe whereby Ireland receives 1.12% of European supplies. Could I ask him about the proposed purchase of 1 million doses of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine to be sourced directly from Romania? The purchase of this vaccine will be outside of the JPA. What oversight or...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The last time I spoke on this issue during a Private Members' motion I pointed out that too often the State, through its policymakers, can tell us the cost of everything but the value of nothing. The retention and resourcing of the regional and rural post office network is more than just a commercial consideration in terms of Government policy. It is a demonstration of actions being louder...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Data Protection (8 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the data that was contained on a memory device (details supplied); if there was video imagery contained therein; the steps that have been taken to recover the lost information; if the original information is still safely protected within her Department's hard drives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36835/21]