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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Brexit on Trade in Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Brexit on Trade in Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: There is another issue that strikes me. We have all heard Prime Minister Johnson speak quite a lot about the ability of the UK to go off and make future trade deals once Brexit is done. Has the Department been looking at forward game-planning for what might happen in this regard, particularly for our agrifood sector? The UK still is our largest export market. What happens if it does a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's policy with regard to uncertainty with fuel prices leading to very difficult trading conditions for private operators in which volatility in prices cannot be offset by operators increasing fares at this time due to competition from State service providers which may lead to a reduction of private operations; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's understanding that passenger numbers for private bus operators has not recovered to anything near pre-pandemic levels with many operating at 60% or less of pre-pandemic levels and with the prospect of the current direct award contract scheme ceasing at the end of March 2022, which will severely impact on the viability...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the way the proposal to grant 20% fare reduction to persons availing of PSO services is grossly unfair to private operators and will impact dramatically on the viability of services, the way that it will result in much needed transport services terminating due to the inability of operators to provide services...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has decided that the youth card travel scheme, which will offer a 50% fare reduction to 18 to 23-year olds, will not be available to commercial bus operators until a time into the future to be determined by the National Transport Authority; if he has considered the way the exclusion of the commercial bus operators from this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that commercial bus operators are currently operating in a direct award contract with the National Transport Authority and that the Authority is provided with monthly reports detailing revenue and passenger numbers which is overseen by a company (details supplied) in which submissions to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the real-life example of inequity in the proposed policy system regarding bus transport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14925/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 932. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that University Hospital Waterford continues to remain the most significantly underfunded model four hospital in the country versus its peers; the reason for the significant disparity in whole-time equivalent positions compared to bed ratios at the hospital versus peer model four hospitals has not been addressed; the reason capital budgets to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 933. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for the elective outpatients department and the 12-bed day ward at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); the status of the final health planner report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14370/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 934. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he failed to respond or accede to a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14371/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1066. To ask the Minister for Health when the emergency department task force last met given the present difficulties with hospital overcrowding; if an organisation (details supplied) has called for such a meeting; the latest initiatives to be considered by the next emergency task force meeting; the measures that are being introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14947/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (22 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1067. To ask the Minister for Health the average weekly trolley count within the nine model 4 hospitals nationally for the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14948/22]

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister of State has said the Bill is designed to create more sustainable patterns of production and consumption that will minimise waste to significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. He stated that waste and resource use are minimised in a circular economy and the use and value of products and materials is maintained for as long as possible. When a product has reached the end...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will read an excerpt from The Irish Timesfrom Wednesday, 16 February 2022, in which the Taoiseach said, "The process of relocating the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) has gone on for 'far too long'." He went on to say, "major health projects need to be delivered 'much more quickly' than they are at present." He added, "It’s not acceptable...". Further to that, he told the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (31 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a developing pastureland project incorporating multi-seed sward analysis research being undertaken at Waterford Institute of Technology; if he has considered allocating specific funding from his Department to this greenhouse gas reduction initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I pay tribute to my Regional Group colleague, Deputy Berry, who was the first to propose that President Zelenskyy would address this Parliament and allow us to express our solidarity with the people of Ukraine. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, report yet again shows the need for all of us to expedite climate action. As the Taoiseach will be aware, we will vote on a...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — the overarching goals of housing policy should be affordability, sustainability, equality and social inclusion; — the high cost of housing can lead to deprivation, exclusion and poverty at the household level and lower levels of consumption, and economic growth at the national level; — since 2015, national...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Ireland has set itself the ambitious targets of a 50% reduction in carbon output by 2030 and of carbon neutrality by 2050. The recent IPCC report again outlines the significant challenges that are facing mankind and our need to prevent global temperature increases above 1.5°C over the coming years and decades. We need to significantly change our consumption habits and our energy use if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grazing Rights (5 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derogations that are proposed to farmers that have habitually used heather and gorse mountain burning as a means of regenerating new growth for sheep grazing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17785/22]