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Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the Bill, as I am sure most Deputies will. It is about giving full transparency to costs in terms of credit agreements and licensed credit intermediaries. We have heard a lot in the last year and more about economic challenges and the level of indebtedness. Credit agreements and different ways of buying goods and products, including hire purchase agreements and private contract...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (15 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine her views on supporting agri-food development in rural and regional Ireland as a building block to sustainable community development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27886/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the witnesses for the important advocacy work they are doing. I am not somebody who would be completely au faitwith what has been going on in Israel for the past while. Like many, I have been detached, to a degree, in looking at it and feeling we are not empowered to do much about it. I am shocked by the GDP figures supplied by Sadaka, particularly the idea of 100 times the value...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: How can the database of companies be publicised and how can consumers become aware of it? How can they also become away of the importance of looking at labelling and requesting labelling that shows exactly who is involved in the supply chain and if products are coming from the occupied territories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Who else is providing funding support to Palestinian Authority budgets? Is anyone doing it outside of the EU? I also want to invite the witnesses to comment on our strong foreign direct investment sector and the extent to which that is probably retarding our ability to advance the occupied territories Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I will follow up on a couple of matters. In one sense, I imagine it must be frustrating for the witnesses contributing today if they are trying to see some advancement. It is important to try to take something away from these actions that can be progressed. It is very important to state that perception is reality to people. Communication is very important. If people are not informed or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Mr. Ó hAinmhire but the problem I am pointing to, and I class myself as somebody who is reasonably well informed, is that I am not necessarily going to land on the Sadaka website. I am talking about some kind of larger scale or very targeted communications to try to put these inequities out there and highlight them to people, even by getting simple messages about the ratios of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Between Ireland and the Palestinian Territories: Discussion (14 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I have made the point and do not have an answer for what I am asking. I am just trying to highlight it. Mr. Lovatt is correct that the public is far ahead of the politics on this but it is a question of trying to create the pressure that will force politicians to follow.

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 43, to delete lines 41 and 42, and in page 44, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “(2) This Act shall come into operation 30 days after its enactment.”.

Select Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I accept that. We understand the difficulties in the context of IT, etc. We are happy to work with the Minister of State on the matter. We have a concern regarding the timeframe. Given what the Minister of State has just said, however, we will work with her. I will withdraw the amendment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Retail Sector: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to follow up on a point that I referenced previously. I led a delegation to the Tánaiste recently from the Regional Group around a new buy local campaign which the Government has committed to put money into from July 2021. I would like to see everybody actively pushing and promoting the idea of indigenous genuine buying Irish where we can. We must get that message out. With...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Science Foundation Ireland (27 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding available under Science Foundation Ireland research call SFI Research Infrastructure Programme 2021; the value of the call; the proposed number of preferred successful candidates; the closeout date; the award date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39409/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1460. To ask the Minister for Health the public health policy regarding many expectant mothers who continue to be separated from their partners during prenatal appointments and early stages of labour; the measures he has undertaken to ensure that HSE public hospital management observe comments and instruction from his Department and the HSE clinical director in relaxing these restrictions;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (27 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 2135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of medical card holders with respect to dental treatment; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many dentists are no longer accepting medical cards as a payment means for dental procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36651/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (27 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 2243. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the present status of medical card holders with respect to dental treatment; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that dentists are no longer accepting medical cards as a payment means for dental procedures; if his Department is responsible for any new orders with respect to the scheme; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 2325. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will ensure that vaccination appointments are offered to persons living within a defined radius of the centres rather than based on allocated eircodes which appear to be directing patients to centres many hours away rather than the nearest centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37332/21]

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: On the day this vote was announced, the Irish Examiner led with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform's insistence that the Cork-Limerick motorway would be in the revised national development plan. I thought this an unsubtle wink to the people of Cork that this Government and the Minister, Deputy Coveney, had the motorway baby safely in their arms. Unfortunately, I have no babe in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Immigration Policy (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 101. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered introducing a points-based system for the entry into the country and naturalisation of skilled workers and their families similar to that in place in Australia and now being considered by the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36838/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a series of matters in relation to fees provided to criminal barristers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43414/21]