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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1276. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12716/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1436. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline when the capital funding program the money is being allocated for the development neuro-rehabilitation service centre at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); the timelines for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13478/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Funding (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1439. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 8 March 2023, the specific funding amount that he is referring to in the response; if he will define the quantum of funding approved; the amount that is being grant-aided by EU funds; if any funds are being provided through the Exchequer or State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13510/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1440. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government intends to set up a public enquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic in nursing homes; when the enquiry will get underway; how long it will take; who will conduct the enquiry; if the enquiry will be independent; what will be its terms of reference; what will be the scope of the enquiry; if service users will be involved; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1443. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government intends to set up a public enquiry into the reason Covid-19-related deaths in Irish nursing home settings were among the highest in the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1449. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government intends to set up a public enquiry to investigate the respective roles of Government policy, HSE and acute hospitals' transferral of patients to nursing homes without proper screening at admission and without adequate isolation accommodation on arrival; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13532/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1450. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government intends to set up a public inquiry to investigate the causal relationship between enduring managerial weaknesses in nursing homes, public and private, as reported on by HIQA, and the tragic and disproportionate impact of Covid-19 in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13537/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1454. To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendations of the Expert Panel report, now two and a half years old, will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13552/23]

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The debate focuses on our binding requirements to meet climate-reduction targets under EU legislation and compliance agreements. The framework the Minister of State referred to is the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol from 2013 to 2020, or the last nine years. The framework at EU level provides for various compliance options beyond our making direct emission reductions,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (28 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 703. To ask the Minister for Health if a person with dementia, who is in receipt of maximum 22.5 hours home help per week, could also avail of the dementia home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15036/23]

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It is fair to say that the housing sector is in crisis. It must be acknowledged and I acknowledge this is a multifaceted problem. It has not occurred only in the past couple of years. It goes back to the banking crash and construction sector withdrawals and liquidations and the loss of skilled labour. Then we had Covid and now we have Ukraine and the energy crisis. We must also...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The Department of Education produced an additional teacher education policy document which suggests that teacher provision will be led by a small number of university centres of teacher education. It appears to discount any opportunity for the new technological universities, only recently established, to engage formally with previous plans to develop a teacher training capability. I mean no...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister of State will know - the Government certainly knows - that Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, which was the fulcrum of the new SETU, had been providing teacher training in the form of further education, which was recognised by the Teaching Council. The academics in WIT had long recognised the regional need for teacher education, particularly at secondary level, in the south...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I support Deputy Bruton's view. I would like to hear the presentation first, and then perhaps we can chat about it to decide what we are going to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Chair and I thank the departmental guests present here this morning. I echo some of the sentiments of colleagues here this morning regarding this Bill being technical and the scope of it seems very large. All of us here obviously want to see greater protection in respect of the communications and activities online. I wish to raise, if I may, a couple of issues. In Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: If there is a complaint there, it will be referring to one post or one series of posts, or whatever, and it should not be that difficult for them to locate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Greene. The other thing which is interesting and which Ms Greene touched upon there is this issue of algorithms and how they are used, exactly who is writing them and what, I suppose, they are seeking to do. This is a bugbear, particularly in social media with regard to its management. I am struggling to understand where, in all of this potential legislation, activity is going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It was said that a new commissioner has to be appointed in this area and that staff requirements are then going to be fleshed out. I would imagine the legal element of the grouping will be the largest. Is it envisaged that the work will be done in-house or will there be contracts with legal firms in Dublin to try to oversee the body’s work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: If enforcement is key, I would imagine that the majority of the work will ultimately be in the legal department. The one thing I would like to understand is whether we will see contracts worth €30 million, €40 million or €50 million given to private legal houses to do the work of the body. My questions therefore concern value for money and the control of the remit of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I will ask one further question if I may. In terms of harmful content, particularly where it is being put out on social media by somebody who is not showing his or her identity, will the telecommunication service companies, TSCs, be able to provide the Internet service providers, ISPs, a list of the people who are behind that? The content could be taken down but there may be defamation. It...