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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Pressing these amendments is creating a different logic, which is basically that the problem that has been identified is access to medical certificates. We are saying that for low-paid workers and those who do not have a GP card, ultimately, they have to pay, if they can see the GP on the day they are sick, by the way, which is a significant problem in itself. On Report Stage, the Minister...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We were discussing a balance. Going from 20 weeks to two does not seem balanced. We are trying to implement a scheme that nearly all employers will abide by, but for those that do not, there has to be a sanction. Two weeks is not an adequate sanction. I welcome that the Minister of State will revert with something more robust.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister of State has alluded to how, on Report Stage, he will look into providing support to small and micro-sized enterprises. That would be welcome.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that his Department is taking to review the current regulations regarding Ukrainian HGV licences which are not currently recognised by the RSA (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21848/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to an issue (details supplied) with regard to a large number of sold electric vehicle cars arriving very close into dealerships but close to the expiry of the SEAI grant validity period which is due to the semiconductor shortage which has caused major delays in production (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 482. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the county of origin that the heart attack patient numbers derive from in the Irish heart attack audit national report 2017-2020; the total number of patients concerned; the actual transfer times for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21953/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 483. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the county of origin of heart attack patients highlighted in the Irish Heart Attack Audit National Report 2017-2020 (details supplied); the PCI lab that patients in the cohort were transferred to if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21954/22]

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I am sharing time with Deputy Canney. We have ten minutes, I think.

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We are witnessing the horror of war at the moment, although we are removed from it. The destruction that is happening in Ukraine and the annexation of parts of Crimea are truly horrifying. War crimes are taking place there, brutality, rape and genocide. The Russian leadership will have to be held to account for it in the future. Pictures have come out of Bucha in the past two weeks...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (10 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to an issue raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22843/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (10 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials have conformed to the consultation principles and guidance as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in November 2016 in regard to the consultation on the CAP Strategic Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22790/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (10 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an organisation (details supplied) recommends increasing afforestation rates to 16,000 hectares annually; if so, the reason for these recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22791/22]

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Indeed I will, a Cheann Comhairle. I enjoyed some of Deputy O'Dea's prescient remarks. As the Minister of State outlined, this Bill will transpose two directives, namely, the digital content directive and the sale of goods directive, which relate to contracts for the sale of goods and contracts for the supply of digital content and services. It also transposes elements of a third...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the planning requirements that are in place in terms of solar farm development with respect to environmental impact studies and environmental impact assessments; if such studies are required for the granting of planning permission for solar or wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23712/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Evidence I have received in the past ten days shows the worsening clinical situation for heart attack transfers in the south east when the Waterford cath lab is closed. In the three years from 2019 to 2022, of 134 blue-light ambulance transfers from University Hospital Waterford to Cork University Hospital, not one arrived within the 90-minute treatment window. In fact, the time from call...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (17 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will identify all capital, safety supports and any other grant or support funding given over the past ten years under each funding head to each individual airport, in tabular form; if the report issuing captures all Government or departmental subventions over the period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24429/22]

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I think we would all agree that every functioning democracy needs to have an independent policing authority, a police force to ensure the security of the population and the upholding of our democratic laws and mandates. In Ireland, we are lucky to have An Garda Síochána. It is a force that is recognised across the world for it close ties to community, its professionalism and the...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Like many others, the Tánaiste included, I welcome the introduction of a statutory sick pay scheme. As I stated in committee, however, there is an issue of discernment here in terms of the scale and size of the employers. What some of the amendments are speaking to, in seeking ten days of immediate sick leave, is wholly inappropriate for microenterprises. That needs to be said first...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: On standing for election I gave a commitment to the people of Waterford city and county and the south east that I would do my utmost for our regional hospital, University Hospital Waterford, and the patients it serves. Yet again, I have to bring the issue of the hospital's underresourcing onto the Dáil floor. Recent work on heart attacks by the National Office of Clinical Audit using...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I was hoping for a "Yes" or "No" answer but I understand that the Taoiseach feels he cannot give it. With the additional money put into University Hospital Waterford, it still remains the most underfunded of nine model 4 hospitals in the country. That is the first issue. Second, the Taoiseach talked about the provision of additional services to the cardiac care suite. What he is offering...