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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests and congratulate the Minister on his elevation. I wish him the best of luck in his new role. There is quite a lot in the White Paper. We could probably give much lengthier consideration to various issues than we have time for today. I will touch on a few of them, if I may. First, I have brought up with every Minister and Minister of State who has come through this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Eight hundred are not going into Waterford.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: May I put something on the record?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: On the Minister's response, which I also heard from the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach, the flood relief for Waterford and the construction of a courthouse were done under the previous programme for Government, as was the Dunmore wing hospital development. On the Minster's other point about investment in our technological university, there is a strategic capital ask in that regard of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: We have spent €44 billion in capital investment in this programme for Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: They were in the last programme for Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The population of Waterford is 2.5% of the national population and the population of the south east is approximately 10%. The capital expenditure in the programme for Government is approximately €45 billion, as far as I can make it out. That suggests Waterford should see €1 billion, pro rata, and the south east should see €4.4 billion. Will the Minister go back to his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: That is potentially 200 jobs to Waterford over the next three years. We have not had major FDI investment in Waterford since West Pharma eight or nine years ago. I was recently told informally that an inquiry was made by staff of a large multinational about locating in Waterford and IDA Ireland advised them it did not feel the land bank was available for what was proposed. There are two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Going back to the point of the State taking proper capital investment, it is a really missed opportunity. We only need to look at Corrib gas and see where it was held up, and at what we did with oil 30 years ago with licensing and the pittance that we go out of that. Talking about offshore wind as an asset, whether it is an asset or otherwise, it will not be an asset if the State is purely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: We should be investing from the start. That is the time to invest in a start-up business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: A decent 10% of that-----

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make a feasibility study public (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28400/24]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Ministers for the extra time. I would like to acknowledge the efforts of the USI student groups around the country and the many third level institutions, especially student representatives from the South East Technological University, SETU, in my region. Third level participation in rentals has been a limited offering in Ireland over many years and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Everyone in the House will recognise the bravery of Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh who waived her right to anonymity in a traumatic trial. An issue highlighted in the case related to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, which allows counsellors’ notes as admissible evidence. Victims’ rights groups have highlighted this threat of admissibility as making victims think twice before...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests for attending but I have found this debate a bit depressing. I have three teenage children and I hoped, as part of this committee, we would figure out how to interdict young people using drugs into the future. A lot of the talk today seems to have been, and I think it was Ms Lawlor who mentioned it, that the rate of drug taking among young people is rising and that is...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Professor Stevens mentioned the illicit market a couple of times, and we all understand exactly what is meant by that. If we are not to have that and we instead nationalise drugs policy and make drugs available under controlled circumstances, we are tacitly saying that drug-taking is something society is now okay with, for want of a better word.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: If I make a point given that Professor Stevens mentioned tobacco, which I was going to mention, we have a particular problem in this country with the rise in vaping. Vaping was put forward as a substitute for tobacco and a way to get off it. We now have teenagers starting vaping who have never smoked cigarettes. We have seen issues with commercialising a substance when society decides it...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: We have people who are functioning alcoholics and we may have functioning people on opioids who are in employment. Are the toxicity and rate of dependency not generally higher as you get up to the harder drugs?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: That is as an interdiction to opiate use.