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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Issues Facing Small Businesses: Discussion (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Would Ms Buckley like to discuss sector-specific supports?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is half time for this Government. I once asked the Taoiseach, perhaps unkindly, whether he is a Cork Taoiseach or a Taoiseach who happens to be from Cork. That remains an open question. Under his tenure, I have watched Cork flourish, finally putting to bed the sad days of Ford and Dunlop. I know this was an era from which the Taoiseach's political philosophy was hewn and from which he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I certainly acknowledge that delivery is on the way. I thank the Taoiseach for that. I point out, however, that the south east still cannot see whether it is getting a fair share of capital funding. In fact, Deputies essentially vote on a black box when it comes to the €10 billion capital allocation. It is a message for the Government that people throughout the country need to see...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach knows I am someone who has engaged with the Minister and Department with responsibility for children on trying to secure accommodation in Waterford and the south east for Ukrainian refugees. My question relates to abuses occurring in our immigration system. Recently I wrote to the Minister for Justice regarding the status of people leaving other European jurisdictions on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the number of ecologists involved in processing the 11 afforestation licences on week four of October 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56599/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the actual output versus the phased projected monthly plan for licence and scheme approvals in his Department's plan for October 2022 for Coillte felling, private felling, roads, afforestation, Ash dieback RUS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56598/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will address the area of technology sector, if I may, and then address issues regarding the IDA in a second round. I thank Ms Buckley for her written contribution. I will split it into three parts and ask Ms Buckley to address the three. In the first part, the IDA has highlighted the need for investment in skills, research, innovation. Ireland is a centre of regulatory excellence and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will make a final observation. Recently, I attended a wind networking meeting where I met people from the UK who were involved in cybersecurity. They told me that we had no cybersecurity framework for the wind generation we were planning. I assume this is something that the witnesses' organisations wish to pressure the Government to address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to direct some comments to the IDA. I acknowledge the contributions of Martin Shanahan and Barry O'Leary before him. My brother David was head of business development in the IDA for a couple of years. The agency's results over recent years have been terrific. I acknowledge also the Waterford development. It has been slow coming but, thankfully, we are now starting to see good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Does Ms Buckley have any concerns about the FDI component of our tax revenue in the future? Let us say there was a change in taxation policy in the United States, which President Trump mooted in respect of repatriating overseas companies when he was in office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Buckley. Regarding the integration of the new technological universities, this model has application throughout the country in respect of these institutions contributing to industrial research. I might have a conversation with Ms Buckley in the future, one to one, in respect of the networks in Waterford, which is an area I am interested in. The hinterland there extends to other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: There is also the South Eastern Applied Materials Research Centre at the South East Technological University, SETU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Buckley.

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I am happy to contribute to this motion from the Labour Party on decriminalisation and drugs policy. We have been speaking about a drugs crisis and drug abuse in our society for many decades. It is funny that we use the word "crisis", which suggests that something is short-term in nature, when the problem has been going on for decades as well we know. It is having a terribly destructive...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on disability benefit were excluded from receiving the once-off payment of €500 cost-of-living measure announced in budget 2023; if she will consider including them in this payment; the other benefits that recipients were excluded from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58946/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 757. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the overhead and margin percentage used by the forest service of his Department in the afforestation grant rates for the next forestry programme, as recently published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58728/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date he expects to publish his forestry licensing plan for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58729/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (1 Dec 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the investigations or steps he is taking to consider the pricing differences between the cost of building materials in Europe and in the United Kingdom as opposed to those pertaining in Ireland at present (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60115/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (1 Dec 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that he is taking to address the significant delay issues in terms of house building companies securing engagement and agreement from Irish Water in domestic water supply and wastewater connection agreements which is delaying approved planning developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60116/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (1 Dec 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status that should apply to a castle structure (details supplied) which forms part of a private landholding; the State funding that is available without requiring private contributions to provide refurbishment works to protect the existing structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60118/22]