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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Events (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 557. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a submission and if she supports a proposed initiative by an organisation (details supplied); if so, when an official statement will be made confirming the €15 million in support funding, as requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12300/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government within the pending review of national planning framework, if he has considered the impact of present required density guidelines and how, in a city such as Waterford, they are proving to be a disincentive to the provision of public and private housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered what new statutory guidelines will be enforced with respect to planning appeals to An Bord Pleanála; if he is aware that some private planning appeals are taking over two years to receive a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11652/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered making changes to the criteria which allows for observations and planning objections to be made to local authorities, often from people who have questionable impact personally from developments proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11655/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what review has taken place in terms of the bureaucracy that surrounds access to utilities such as water and wastewater connections; whether the Minister is concerned at the difficulty developers experience in trying to communicate and negotiate with these State utilities; whether he has considered any new initiatives to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government where the development of new housing schemes using modular building methods have already taken place in Munster; the scale and costs associated with homes supplied by this method; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11657/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's policy regarding the registration through the planning process of short-term letting properties often used as short-term summer accommodation (details supplied); his Department's position with respect to validating registrations of short-term accommodation through the planning...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 1372. To ask the Minister for Health further to a recent Parliamentary Question, the explanation of ‘restricted procedure for works contractor’ protocol (details supplied); what differentiates it from an ‘unrestricted procedure’; the key criteria for making this distinction; the way and the reason it should be implemented in the opinion of his Department or the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 1373. To ask the Minister for Health further to a recent Parliamentary Question, if he will provide an explanation of this framework (details supplied) to include all of its sub-components and what core groupings in his Department have management over this initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12342/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 1495. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 31 January 2024, the reason no electroencephalographic machine is available in University Hospital Waterford; what plans are in place or under discussion to provide such a machine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12948/24]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I wish fair winds to Deputy Varadkar. While he got some big calls right on the macro economy, the pandemic and Brexit, this has not been a Government for all people or for all parts of Ireland. People have become divided during the term of this Government. It has pitched urban against rural, motorist against cyclist, agriculture against the environmentalist and house buyers against...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to share time with Deputy Naughten.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I congratulate the Taoiseach on his elevation. I also congratulate his new Front Bench members and wish them all the best in their new roles. We have heard many times over the past two weeks of the soul-searching and renewal in which the Taoiseach's party is currently engaging. I wish his new ministerial line-up every good fortune. I say that sincerely, as one hopes their success in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the witnesses. I have my own opinion on retirement. To be frank, I believe that it is a disaster for a lot of people. Income is the major problem they have. A lot of people would be more open to the idea of changing their work situation if they had adequate income to fall back on and to allow them to go in new directions. One of the reasons they feel hard done by is that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Speaking of parliamentary systems, someone in Japan has to be nearly 70 before being considered for a Cabinet minister’s post. We have a different system, which is good. There are certain tensions. Young people might say they are not getting a crack at good jobs early on because people are staying in employment for longer. That is a societal issue as much as an employment one....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I ask for an answer to my question on the idea that young people are being kept out of the high-end jobs market because people are sitting in these jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Much of the debate is about getting onto the property ladder. Is that not the-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Central Bank has just produced the latest liability data up to 21 December 2022. It has taken 15 months to publish that. Will Government give a commitment to publish the 2023 data before the summer recess to see what is happening in the insurance market? The headline takeaways in terms of the report that was just published are that insurance profit margins have risen 55% in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will engage with the banking sector (details supplied) and request it to provide a status report regarding the offer to provide a 'gambling block' to customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15047/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 312. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the timeframe provided by the financial institutions required to deliver gambling block security to their online platforms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15048/24]