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

Matt Shanahan: I suggest that when the new commissioner is appointed, that might be something that should be looked at. That is a scourge that is there in social media and that is doing much damage, particularly to the youth in our country. There are people who for their own reasons are constantly resurfacing and putting things out and they are not being tracked or got at in any way. There needs to be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It is Groundhog Day as I bring up the issue of a second cardiac cath lab at University Hospital Waterford, where the HSE has spent 14 months attempting to provide a 12-bed day ward solution for this lab to operate. The latest parliamentary question response I received stated the hospital hoped to occupy the lab by quarter 2, not operate it. Operations cannot begin in this lab without...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: A modular solution is all that is needed. It is being done everywhere else. That is all we need.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Organised crime is a fact in Ireland and it involves conspiracy generally to commit serious crime. Mostly, it operates on a level of intimidation and enforcement. It preys not only on the weak but also on the strong. We also have disorganised crime in this country. We see that more outside of the major urban centres, maybe, in the form of antisocial behaviour, theft, money laundering,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 849. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding section 254 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2021, what right of appeal will exist under the Draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 in relation to telecom and communication masts, which presently appear to be planning-exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17970/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 851. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with respect to the new communications masts that are becoming apparent around Waterford city, what safeguards are being built into the planning Acts to ensure that there are no negative health effects on people located in the areas adjacent to these masts. [17997/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1603. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1275 of 21 March 2023, if he will address a number of issued raised (details supplied). [17451/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1604. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a long standing commitment to the refurbishment of a building in the old St. Otterans site in Waterford so that community services presently located on the acute hospital campus at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, could move to this new location thereby freeing up space within the main campus which is badly needed to provide new...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1605. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the pressing need to provide a dedicated cardiac day ward at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, to facilitate elective activity of the second cardiac catheterisation lab at UHW due to begin activity in quarter 2 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17453/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1646. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter concerning bed capacity at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17593/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1647. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter concerning cardiology services at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17594/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1648. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter concerning a laboratory at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1667. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the new two-storey laboratory extension at University Hospital Waterford which has received planning permission from the Waterford local authority, if he will confirm the status of this project with respect to ring-fenced funding, tender development and contract award and this project's status within the 2023 capital plan (details supplied);...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The Good Friday Agreement was signed on 10 April 1998. It was a seismic agreement that ended decades of violence that had pitched extreme elements within communities against one another based on ideas of religion, inequality, the retention of political power and the perception of ethnic identity through the prism of the past. The agreement paved the way for the development of a new...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Can the Tánaiste update the House on the final cost of the Dunkettle interchange? It was originally signalled at €77 million when first mooted, then the figure rose to €88 million. I gather it was signed off in the early days of the Tánaiste's premiership at €216 million. Even that sounds a lot for a fancy-pants roundabout. Some 23 years ago, the Jack Lynch...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: They are not happening.

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: My colleague, Deputy Tóibín may or may not be here. If he is not, I will not take the full allocation of time. This is an important Bill that is being discussed in regard to the preservation of our national monuments which are singularly involved with our ideas of culture and heritage. Apart from the idea of identity, of understanding who we were and who we are and maybe who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I am rather sorry to see Deputy John Paul Phelan announce his departure from the House. I wish him and his domestic constituency the very best. I have a good deal of sympathy for his predicament. Like Paudie Coffey, Michael D'Arcy and John Deasy before him, genuine embarrassment was felt to have made electoral promises that simply evaporated at the Cabinet table. For all the blather about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach has reached back into a couple of previous programmes for Government. The North Quays, as he knows, was included back in 2014, to be fair, and it has taken until 2023 to get that approved.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Beyond that, the PPP for our engineering building in Waterford Institute of Technology was actually granted planning permission in 2008. In 2020, I had the pleasure of coming into the Government here to see that project sidestepped while other PPP projects in Cork and Dublin, to the tune of €330 million, were advanced. This is what I am talking about. The Taoiseach said we are...