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

Matt Shanahan: 622. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanisms that are in place to administer conflicts of interest for hospital group CEOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46687/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: There is much to admire in the shared island initiative as it gingerly tries to figure out how we can all live on this island together. Given the demographic destiny that is beating like a Lambeg drum now, it might prove to have been a little too slow and too careful in getting the well-meaning enhanced co-operation, connection and mutual understanding in place before events take over....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I congratulate Ms Byron on her important appointment. Before I speak about the HSA, I will go back to her previous role in the insurance sector, which is important to this committee. Ms Byron was previously the CEO of PIAB and a past chairperson of the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland. It appears that the judicial guidelines are having an effect on compensation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I was just seeking an opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Byron. Getting to her role in the HSA, she has succinctly highlighted the challenges and the good work the HSA has been doing for a number of years. That is plain to be seen, particularly in the construction sector. Anybody who has worked in that sector over the past 20 years will have seen a marked change in culture and compliance. Certainly, in larger building concerns,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Someone trying to get a certification redone might be waiting three months, during which time that person is out of certification and an employer cannot bring him or her onto a site. It seems that there may need to be more accredited people to do the training. The issue of solar panels, rigging and so forth was mentioned. It is an important area that we need to consider. Ms Byron will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: We are still waiting for the Minister to produce a national hydrogen strategy. It will be an important sector for Ireland, so it would be good to understand the technical safety requirements. I am sure that the HSA will have a large role to play in that. Perhaps it will work closely with the new technological universities to ensure that we have suitably educated people to regulate this space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome Mr. Carey and his team. I congratulate him on his appointment. I have had some engagement with Enterprise Ireland over the years and the previous CEO. I did not know the Chairman but the CEO, Julie Sinnamon, did a great job. To be fair, Enterprise Ireland has a very good leadership team now with Leo Clancy and the others. I wish them all the best. I am on the record a number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Could I just make one final comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: One other programme in EI was the larger supportive innovation centres where it was paying for innovation site managers to come in and they were given a salary for a year or two in the hope that an enterprise would become self-sustaining. EI has supported a model like that in Waterford which has been very successful. I ask Mr. Carey to look at that again. I know some of the funding is now...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (26 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline where the balanced regional spend to the south east has been accomplished since the formation of the Thirty-third Dáil (details supplied). [46935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Appeals Commission (26 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of the number of determinations arrived at for the years 2020 to 2022, by each individual tax appeals commissioner. [47173/23]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: In the couple of minutes I have, I will point out a couple of areas where the law of unintended consequences has come to bear and maybe the Government can have a look at it. The first is in the area of housing bodies. They have become too top heavy, too administratively onerous. It is causing increased costs and it means that the small and medium-sized builders are avoiding dealing with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Our banking sector is failing those in gambling addiction recovery. I am referencing the failure of the Irish banks, aside from Revolut, to offer gambling blocks to payment cards. This provides people with the option of preventing any and all gambling activity for 24 to 48 hours while they consider and fully contemplate the decision. The protocols are widespread and available in the UK...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1093. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of budget provision that has been set aside to fund the seven-day opening of the emergency cathlab suite at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47253/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1094. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that was allocated to allow University Hospital Waterford cater to the emergency patient streams that occurred because of the Wexford ED closure; if he will provide the quantum of funding provisioned; the status of this money as to whether paid over as of yet or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47254/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1183. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the hospital group CEOs across all hospital groups hold other remunerated positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47836/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1184. To ask the Minister for Health the oversight mechanism for approving hospital group CEO expenses across all hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47837/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1185. To ask the Minister for Health what mechanisms are in place to administer conflicts of interest for all hospital group CEOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47838/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 18 October 2023, to provide a detail of the date of each decision gate, the project budget at each decision gate, the overall cost of any completed projects and the overall financial disbursement from voted expenditure from the Department in respect of each completed project; and if he will make a...