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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: There are no beds for it. After two years of engagement with the State, there are no beds to service that unit.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: With respect, there are no beds to support the new cath lab.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: There are no day beds to support the second cath lab coming operational in December. There have been two years of engagement with HSE states but there are no beds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Like others, I have a concern that we are in a very one-sided discussion this morning. I know employer groups were asked to come in but it is always good to have the balance and, hopefully, we will have that again in the future. I have stated a number of times in this committee that I would support a living wage but it must be done on a phased basis that is cognisant of the pressures in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Could Dr. Bambrick repeat that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Does it suggest to Dr. Bambrick that those two sectors are very prone to competition? In particular, I think retail will see the most fall off in jobs over the next three to six months. I think it will be the sector that suffers the most. In fact, it is already happening largely because of competition, inflation and affordability. Although we want to raise wages, how does it help workers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: With respect, we have to take the wider economy into consideration. We will probably see, over the next six months, where the fallacy lies in terms of the cost of employment. I would say that the costs relating to employment are not divorced from the other inflationary costs in the business environment. Unfortunately, costs are going north at a time when revenues are going south. I am all...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the Government's proposal to expand the spending limit of €500 million to the tourism sector before the end of the year. I can promise the Minister it is extremely badly needed. In her opening address, the Minister highlighted that tourism has been Ireland's most important indigenous labour-intensive sector, generating substantial export earnings and tax revenues, and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the quantum of capital funding which he envisages will be available to draw down over a timeframe to deliver on the aspirations to halt the brain drain in the south east as part of this framework; the new courses, new disciplines and new buildings that are being put in place as part of South East Technological University configuration; the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: My question relates to the South East Technological University, SETU, and the quantum of capital funding that the Minister hopes to announce to deliver on the aspirations to halt the brain drain, to create new courses and to deliver new buildings and new capital structures in SETU.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is now 11 years since Fine Gael promised Waterford a national university. It also promised this to the south east in 2011. Since that time no investment has been made on the campus in Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, despite the fact that the Government and the Higher Education Authority, HEA, blocked any developments and this ended up at the Committee for Public Accounts as well....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I might remind the Minister there was never a need to buy additional land in Waterford. We already had three sites with planning permission that could have been developed. I have seen how Government can walk through walls since I have come in here. I saw it when Deputy McHugh moved forward the public private partnership, PPP, for the Munster Technological University MTU. I have seen two...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is just a structure.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is just a structure.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Show us the money.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Housing Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 713. To ask the Minister for Health when a change, subject to a recent Regional Group Private Members’ motion that houses within the fair deal scheme could be made available to the rental market without impact to the cost of the scheme for those in residential accommodation, will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51293/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank all the guests for coming in today and for their continued advocacy on this very important issue. As other colleagues stated, this committee will not be found wanting in terms of trying to assist them as best we can to make sure that Ireland is in the vanguard when it comes to what is being proposed at European level. This is very difficult subject in many ways. We are largely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I appreciate that. One of the things I would like to see is some kind of framework within this whereby companies would try to investigate their own supply chains, even where they are buying from a third party. If it means that companies must have a policy stating that they have put people on the ground in South America or Africa, have seen what is going on and are moderating, looking at and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I count 51 days to the end of the Taoiseach's premiership. Many commitments were made to Waterford and the south east in that time but one is paramount, namely, 24-7 cardiac care. We are just weeks away from a formal handover of the second cath lab in Waterford and we have no bed allocation other than the existing allocation within the hospital to service that cath lab. In essence, we are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is no good without beds.