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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 258. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with type 1 diabetes who have attended DAFNE carb counting and insulin adjustments in University Hospital Waterford since it began in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11949/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients presenting through the University Hospital Waterford emergency department or due to diabetic ketoacidosis; how many of these presenting patients were admitted; whether these patients presenting and admissions were adult or paediatric in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to return to the issues that I raised about this idea of a third way and a regulatory agency. I accept what Mr. Hegarty said about LEOs existing to help the SME community. The LEOs do an excellent job. I have great awareness of the work that they do and their approach but I do not think that the SME community, as a group, is properly represented. Certainly, in terms of collective...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I remind the Taoiseach of the words he delivered in Waterford in July 2017, when he signalled he was the future. He said, "So long as I am Taoiseach Waterford will not be neglected or forgotten." I remember well the hope his speech inspired as a signal that the vicious perishing unleashed by the Administration of his predecessor, Enda Kenny, was coming to an end. We surveyed the wreckage...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I am glad to hear the Taoiseach finally acknowledge there is a roadmap to get to a 24-7 service. It is the first time that has been acknowledged in this House. I invited him to come to Waterford and visit University Hospital Waterford, so I was very glad to see him there. As I pointed out to him in private conversation, there are still exceptional challenges at the hospital, not least the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: In our exchange during Leaders' Questions yesterday regarding south-east development progress, the Taoiseach said that the university for the south east is done. Almost one year after the merger, it is far from done on the ground. Indeed, at this moment, it is more of a complex and somewhat loveless merger with a rebrand. What measures specifically does the Government plan to take to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I asked about capital investment.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I am just asking about the capital investment programme.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Again, I asked about capital investment and the schedule.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I add my support to the abolition of hospital charges amounting to €800 in one year. If we were to provide universal health insurance those charges would have no place in the system. I ask the Minister to also look at the charges for hospital parking. Some hospitals do offer discounted assistance for regular visitors but, for example, I know of one family where the family members...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: We need to get the second catheterisation laboratory up and running but that cannot be done without beds. The Minister and I have spoken about this a number of times and about the fact that there is no capital support available for beds but there is the possibility of bringing in a modular day ward which is being done in other hospitals around the country. That would immediately provide the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Start-up and Scaling Environment in Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. On scale, and I am not sure if this is being done already or if there are plans to do so, I refer to providing a kind of driver's manual of how to set up a company. Many SMEs take the approach where they first set up a small limited company. Down the line then, the way the company is incorporated becomes a barrier to trying to sort out bringing in additional investment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Start-up and Scaling Environment in Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: That is a very good point and one the committee should take on board. Mr. Caulfield is absolutely right. The IP strategy and patents provide protection but having a good business model and product can be a good defender in itself because branding can be built around that and people will come to understand its uniqueness and how to possibly defend it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Start-up and Scaling Environment in Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the delegations for coming in. It is great to get a broad outline of where we are probably going and the steps the Government has been taking to try to look at providing investment in the broad economic sector. I am somebody who has experience. I was involved in two health business services. The first thing I would say is that it is incredibly difficult to build any business,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the project details for a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy scheme mortgages drawn down in Waterford and nationally in two years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12355/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless people on the housing list in Waterford and nationally, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12340/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes completed in the past two years in Waterford and nationally, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12350/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes, broken down by houses and apartments, respectively completed in Waterford and nationally in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12351/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of funding presently being provided to UHW and to CHO5 to provide a community neuro-rehabilitation team (details supplied); the number of whole-time equivalent positions and the specialisation of each, between acute hospital service and community service, respectively; and if he will make a statement...