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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to advise what cut-off date is being discussed within his Department to end formal consideration of the phase two PPP capital delivery including the proposed engineering building to the WIT campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48252/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills understanding that design plans have been obviously completed considering formal negotiation of PPP delivery of engineering building to WIT campus and understanding that the PPP process appears unable to be fulfilled, the other pathways his Department is reviewing in order to separate this construction and tender for direct build; how...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing process that decides approval for the provision of pharmacy and veterinary faculties and course development (details supplied); the reason for the delay in providing approval to these applications; if he will commit to providing an end-date by which a decision will be concluded and publicly communicated; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a framework for the university sector to develop student accommodation will be agreed; the quantum of capital funding his Department plans to make available to the technological university sector, and specifically SETU, to advance student accommodation builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48255/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of higher education in the southeast region, given that unlike other regions, there is no National University; how this deficit in regional higher level provision is being considered by his Department with respect to the development of SETU; the actions he has taken to date and the funding provision he has made available that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I wish the Chairman a good morning and thank the guests. I only have seven minutes so I would like to split my time evenly. I will put three broad questions to each of the representative organisations. First, in terms of the Green Tech Skillnet activity, particularly in terms of wind and solar, I would like to reflect on what my colleague beside me said about questioning 70 wind technician...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Mr. Flynn. I am sorry; I am going to have to cut him short. Perhaps he might just respond with the totality, if he knows it, of the numbers of placements he is envisaging for the current year. He can come back to me in writing. It is just that I have two other questions and I am tight on time. Skillnet stated in its report that it has invested €70 million in industry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Mr. Stockil very much indeed for the answer. This is a very important point going forward. It is very important to target the private sector, but it is very important that we start getting training done in the public sector. I will go to the SEAI. I thank our guests. In terms of the SEAI's statements and decarbonisation roadmap, it has highlighted the retrofit programmes that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Mr. Meally mentioned public procurement. I am not a fan of the robustness of public procurement because I have seen too much of it that is not robust. Many people are left outside the process because of definitions and standards and they are not interested in tendering. That leaves a very small number of people. There is no real competition. Perhaps that is something we could have a chat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Does the authority have a role as regards modular panel building? Does it examine the panels? Does it have a role in certifying energy standards in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: My question is for the SEAI. Mr. Meally spoke about the difficulty of building on carbon savings year after year. It is great to go into a building and change the lights, put up curtains and look at the ventilation to get a reduction but what is done next? We all understand it is a difficulty. The nub of my question is the ability of the SEAI to influence public policy. When electricity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Not to disagree with Mr. Meally but the community development fund is not at all adequate. I will give an example. A large offshore wind farm project of the south coast of Ireland, specifically off the coast of my own county, is being considered at the moment. The investment threshold for that project is probably over €1 billion. The community dividend is payable over 15 years and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Is it just the standards authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: That would be helpful.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of applications for temporary protection received in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, listed by country of origin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49423/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of deportation orders issued in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, listed by country of origin; the number of deportation orders that were actually enforced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49424/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current average processing time for international protection applications; of the applications received in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, the percentage which progress to residency permission; the percentage which are refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49425/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given that International protection applicants can request permission to enter the labour market if their IP application has not been completed within five months, if she will outline, in tabular form, the percentage of IP applicants that have achieved employment status in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023; the number of these...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what steps are being taken by her Department to prevent the destruction of passport documents following embarkation from the country of origin and arrival at border control on Irish shores; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of international protection applicants, listed by country of origin, who passed through Irish border control without passport documentation in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49428/23]