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Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 242. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed explanation of the processes, milestones and timelines that led to the recently released tender for Cork University Hospital Clinical Medical School; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45626/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 243. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed timeline of the recent tender for Cork University Hospital clinical medical school progress through the public spending code and associated processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 275. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed explanation of the processes, milestones and timelines that led to the recently released HSE tender for Cork University Hospital Clinical Medical School; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45661/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 276. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the source of funding for the recently released tender for Cork University Hospital Clinical Medical School; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45662/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the significant lack of parking availability at the Waterford campus of South East Technological University with students who are commuting by day having their cars clamped for parking on the access roads around the Waterford Campus; if he will provide a hardcore area for overflow parking at this site to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make funding available to South East Technological University to provide overflow parking for Waterford campus students, given the general understanding that capital developments through public procurement will take some years to deliver student accommodation and teaching buildings on the newly acquired Waterford Crystal site; when...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1008 of 21 March 2023, if his Department can provide a copy of any response issued; if none issued, to provide an update on when further information may issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45627/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I convey my support to the people of east Cork and west Waterford who have been impacted by flooding. I thank the rescue services and council workers, particularly in Tallow, Lismore, Dungarvan and Clashmore. The Blackwater Valley will probably flood over the next couple of days. I ask that the Government give a clear signal to the local authorities that necessary funding will be provided....

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I do not want to come into this Chamber and suggest that our health service provision is a mess, but clearly some things are not working and need to be changed. I acknowledge the many people in the service who are doing extraordinary work. I also commend the ongoing development of our community and primary health sectors. These are fundamental to relieving pressure on our acute hospital...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I have written to the Secretary General of the Department of Health three times this year requesting a meeting to discuss the issues affecting University Hospital Waterford, UHW. The Secretary General has proved himself good value for his €292,000 annual salary. He declined to meet me, but responded by saying that he was aware of the issues I wanted to raise. In such circumstances,...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The bust following the Celtic tiger era should have taught many of us the importance of budgeting and living within our means. This applies also to the management of our national finances. I said on budget day that I felt I needed to stand up and question the wisdom of breaking the fiscal rules in developing budget 2024, not least when the level of pre-windfall corporation tax means that in...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Sinn Féin for the opportunity to debate further the issues in our health service, which at this stage are legion. The planned HSE funding freeze is worrying. I am inclined to agree with my esteemed colleague, Deputy Canney, that the rationale is that Government is trying to put some manners on runaway HSE budgets. Anybody who has spent any time working in or around the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 118. To ask the Taoiseach if he will direct that an organisation (details supplied) be invited to become a participatory member of the Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF); and if so, when an invitation might be forthcoming. [46575/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It may be somewhat harsh but possibly fair to say the Government is not particularly loved or cherished by the people. Most, I suppose, are not. I recently went back to review the relevant Fine Gael manifesto, remembering the deep sense of political change I hoped for when there was a change of Government in 2011. It is the document of a party that spent a long time wondering what it would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: -----particularly Enda Kenny’s opening comments that the pre-existing political culture had abandoned the principles underpinning the Republic that Fine Gael founded in 1949, had distorted the power and resources of the State for the benefit of the few, not the many, and had allowed the interests of citizens to be pushed behind those of powerful elites. Those are strong words which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach may that when Deputy Micheál Martin was first nominated for Taoiseach, I said I would not support the nomination as a protest against the lack of 24-7 cardiac care. I did say I looked forward to engaging with the Government in a programme that showed equity and transparency at its core. The south east has 11% of this nation’s population. I challenge the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 618. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the full service acute hospitals budget allocated at the beginning of 2023 to each of the nine ‘model 4’ hospitals nationally; the indicative and individual forecast overspend being guided by his Department for each of these hospitals up to 31 December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46683/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the financial rewards his Department is planning to give to the budget of University Hospital Waterford in recognition for the five months' additional capacity management this hospital delivered while the emergency department of Wexford Hospital was closed due to fire damage (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46684/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the hospital group CEOs hold other remunerated positions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46685/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the oversight mechanism for approving hospital group CEO expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46686/23]