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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (12 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 805. To ask the Minister for Health when the 56-hour dementia intensive home care package for a 91-year-old dementia sufferer, who is on a waiting list since August 2023, will be provided in full (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54885/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (12 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 806. To ask the Minister for Health if it is correct that an organisation (details supplied) has been given an instruction by the HSE not to feed or give any fluids, only to provide personal hygiene and activities, to a 91-year-old dementia patient it takes care of for seven hours per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54891/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (14 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 70. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline any new strategy development in his Department that deals with foster children and the challenges facing foster parents, particularly in relation to social security entitlements with respect to pension contributions (details supplied). [55037/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (14 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: My question relates to any strategy development in the Department that deals with foster children and the challenges facing foster parents, especially with respect to social security entitlements and pension contributions.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (14 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Deputy Canney and I, along with other members of the Regional Group, met representatives of foster families some weeks ago. There are very distinct challenges in the sector, not least access to pension entitlements. The Minister has had some engagement on this. It seems extraordinary that women who left the private sector workforce and took on foster care were not advised that they should...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (14 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Yes, residential care.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Children in Care (14 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It is important to recognise the challenges faced by foster families. Despite the increases, which are very welcome, the Minister is well aware that when some foster families take on children with additional needs, they have to source services privately. Like any parent, when they look at a child, having been told it will take two, three or four years to get an National Educational...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank everybody for coming in here this morning. They are all busy, but this is an important issue. I thank Deputy Stanton, who has led this at committee level. It is important that we hear the experiences on the ground. I also want to acknowledge the change, I suppose, the cultural change and also the social change and economic change that is happening in society. It is interesting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Mr. Dunne might like to come in there because he expressed an interest in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It would be helpful if the witnesses could identify what legislation was enacted or changed in the North of Ireland to facilitate what the Belfast retailers are doing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It is important to acknowledge it is not to up to retailers to sort out our socioeconomic problems. That is a job for Government policy. We need to have the witnesses leave here today with an idea that this committee can do something to support them. Mr. Jennings mentioned bringing his private CCTV to a garda. What is the admissibility of that as evidence? If I am an arresting inspector...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: When Mr. Dunne makes a complaint, how often do the gardaí ask to review the CCTV footage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I want to go back to the point of the appetite of the Garda to try to give more support to the witnesses vis-à-visthe Belfast initiative, which was discussed earlier. I understand that the PULSE IT system is presently undergoing a major upgrade. I presume this is because it has not been upgraded in more than 20 years. If we are doing this business watch scheme, there is an opportunity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: We can talk to colleagues to see where we can go with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Musgrave is a large company. Perhaps it should pilot something in a number of stores and try to link in.. A lot of this will have to be proven. The problem is the Garda does not have the resources. It does not even have feet on the ground. That is the big problem. We need to use technology to short-circuit some of this. There should be more discussion on the issue. This committee is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: That needs to be revisited. It is simply common sense. If we knew there was a known paedophile running around between national schools, would we be saying that we should not be sharing information and images? That is totally ridiculous. We have lots of archaic lawmaking and laws made with the best of intentions and the worst of outcomes. This is something else for broader discussion.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Trafficking (14 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department is taking to ensure the child trafficking is not occurring where refugee families and adolescents are presenting for international protection in Ireland. [55038/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to come in. I congratulate Mr. Gorman. I met him at the National Ploughing Championships. Well done on your success. I say the same to the other officers. I take an interest in a number of areas in forestry. Even though I am from Waterford, where we do not have the same volume of forestry as other counties, it is very important for the climate and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Would Mr. Delany accept that the forestry sector has completely underperformed over the past three to five years and that the trajectory at present does not look to be going a whole lot better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Would Mr. Delany know off the top of his head what the ratio split is between private and, for example, Coillte, on felling and afforestation? How has it moved over the past few years?