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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I do not disagree with anything the Deputy said but this is a retrospective Bill, whereas he is talking about future policy, strategic capital development and all of that, which can be informed by the data that is there today. To his point, driving around will tell you where things are not happening, but the Bill offers much more granular detail and will allow us to create a platform on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: It is all departmental information we are depending on, so that is what we are talking to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Would the committee be able to make a recommendation for a shorter timeframe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Bill will grant all assets and all assets realised, so it will capture anything in local government above €500,000 as long as the heading relates to assets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Grants from the Department will have to be captured within that to local government in the case of capital expenditure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank OPLA, the PBO and parliamentary colleagues, including the three here today, who have assisted me. Their participation has been really well received. They are smart people and they understand exactly what we are discussing. None of them has an axe to grind. There are no agendas here; this is really about trying to deliver better legislation, governance and better clarity on how we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I invite my colleagues to make closing statements.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I gather a new national student accommodation strategy is being developed as we speak. The 2016 policy targeted no new student accommodation in Waterford, despite the issue of a university in Waterford appearing in the 2011, 2016 and 2020 programmes for Government. To reiterate: none, nada, nothing. I cannot resist the cheap shot that this is one of the few targets in housing the...

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

Matt Shanahan: There are many things up for discussion, not least, the assessment of risk. Before we discuss the issue of beetles, and all of that, and the call for a forestry agency, would Mr. Delaney or the Department officials support the idea of a national forestry agency?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (18 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his Department's planned allocations to capital developments at South East Technological University over the next 12 months and beyond (details supplied). [46934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Code (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 1598. To ask the Minister for Health to review the taxation treatment of GP group practises (details supplied) with respect to the specific queries raised in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57169/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 1652. To ask the Minister for Health what surveillance activity programme is taking place with respect to monitoring wastewater for Covid; the number of treatment plants that are being monitored as part of the health surveillance; if he will publish the latest data available to his Department on Covid concentrations in municipal wastewater schemes; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 1815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s processes that consider the value for money question understanding that in 2017 a project build (details supplied) was estimated at less than €50 million, in 2021 it was estimated to cost close to €90 million and today the engineering block build is estimated to be costing over €100 million; if,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: People in Waterford and the south east know that the Taoiseach and the Government have forgotten them. In the election of 2011, 2016 and 2020, voters from across the south east who had been left to stew in their anger turned away from the traditional parties of government. Parliamentary responses I copied to the Taoiseach's office in recent weeks show that University Hospital Waterford, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach did not actually correct the record in respect of what I highlighted to him. I am glad that he seeks support for University Hospital Waterford, as do I. Since the two cath labs opened - they are operating 60 hours a week - the hospital is emulating the same service activity as the Cork centre, which has five cath labs and 168 hours scheduled. This is despite the fact the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests for their presence here this morning. I have owned and operated a private business for many years, and I have to say that when I sit here and listen to some of the commentary, I wonder if I am living in the same country as other people. Whether anybody has acknowledged it here or not, we currently have full employment. In large part, workers have far more access and more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I did not object to transposing the directive. I said-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Mr. Reidy obviously did not take account of that restaurateur and the point he is making. He is going out of business because his business can no longer compete. I do not know where Mr. Reidy thinks these jobs are going to be taken up at a higher level. There will not be employers there to provide that type of employment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regulatory and Legislative Changes Required for the Transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Regarding their access to discretionary spend, people do not have the money to go where Mr. Reidy wants to go. It is not possible for them.