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Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: No, I am not. The Maritime Area Planning Bill is a component of the national marine planning framework designed to manage marine development. The Minister synopsised this Bill yesterday as setting out to develop and integrate the management plan for 500,000 sq. km. of our ocean and foreshore. The magnitude of the responsibility this Bill seeks to address was highlighted in the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position in relation to the national broadband roll-out; the delays encountered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44217/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I am sure everyone in the House supports the climate action target to reduce emissions by 51% by 2030. A large component of meeting this target is the development of significant onshore renewable energy and even more capital intensive offshore renewables. We are at present facing a perfect storm in terms of our energy security. In the last decade, we had 11 amber alerts on the national...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I am happy to attend and contribute to the debate on this Bill, which intends to facilitate the implementation of the new Garda Síochána operating model. It proposes certain amendments to legislation to facilitate the introduction of specific changes to the structure of An Garda Síochána. As the Minister knows, the new model is structured around Garda divisions. Under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister for his presence here. I have just a few questions. It is important that we do everything to try to initiate greater trade with all of our trading partners. People also have the right, however, to look over it to make sure we are doing everything to protect Ireland's interests, and particularly with this new investment court system. I have a couple of questions on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister. Does CETA allow for just compensation or would punitive damages also form part of a legal finding against Ireland in the future where a company's case was upheld in respect of trade discrimination?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I have a quick question. The Minister has made reference to exports to Canada. Does he have information on the import flows that have resulted from this agreement with Canada since its enactment or on the trajectory of imports of goods and services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Will the Minister outline the value of the trade flows in and out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: It would be good to be able to compare them. It is to be hoped that they could help to promote the argument.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The Housing for All strategy has outlined four main aims: "[to] support home ownership and increase affordability; [to] eradicate homelessness, increase social housing delivery and support social inclusion; [to] increase new housing supply; [and to] address vacancy and make efficient use of existing stock." The aspirations within the plan include "over 90,000 social homes by the end of 2030,...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I note the Minister's announcement that he is proposing a task force to deal with waiting lists and that he has put in a funding request for a budget allocation of hundreds of millions of euro to pay for this multi-year plan. That is wonderful news. Again, we can find emergency money to outsource waiting lists, yet we cannot find the money to support expansion within our own hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Licences (28 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of foreshore licence applications that are currently in progress or pending relating to wind energy development in the south east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44218/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Does the Tánaiste remember saying, "So long as I am Taoiseach Waterford will not be neglected or forgotten"? He said he considered Waterford to be "a litmus test for the Republic of Opportunity ... one in which every part of the country has an equal chance to share in our country's prosperity". These words were not said in the Sturm und Drang of an election campaign, rather they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Tánaiste for his response but I have to say I do not accept it. It would be very helpful to see proper granular data on capital spending. To that purpose, after our last engagement on this subject, I asked the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, which does really excellent work, to look at this and to prepare a report to see where public money goes. Believe it or not,...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The climate action plan is a monstrous piece of legislation for a monstrous problem. It includes certain key goals which are well known at this stage. These include reducing our net carbon emissions by half by 2030 and trying to get to a net zero carbon economy by 2050. The plan outlines Ireland's current greenhouse gas emissions and targets across a range of all our major sectors,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 309. To ask the Minister for Health the detailed annual operational and capital budget expenditures at University Hospital Waterford over the past five years; the whole-time equivalent hospital employment movements over this period or for the duration for which information can be accurately supplied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47258/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the additional recruitment that has taken place at UHW in terms of roles (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47257/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the NTPF activity in relation to UHW waiting lists over the past five years; the individual procedures outsourced; the name of the hospital systems to which such NTPF activity was awarded and carried out; the proportion of these allocations that were achieved in each individual hospital system by name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47259/21]

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Covid-19 has challenged the country, our society and our economy like never before. With this disease, the country has travelled on a roller coaster journey. It has been a journey of high consequent mortality in the elderly, a hospital intensive care crisis that has tested staff to the limit, deferral of significant other health procedures and activity and lockdown of our population to...