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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...the processes, milestones and timelines for releasing ring-fenced funding in his Department in respect of the compulsory purchase order being contemplated by Wexford Council for the acquisition of lands for a higher education campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12722/23]

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I am happy to take part in this important debate about the future of forestry in Ireland and to examine the rationale of the Government's current policy. Ecology and biology have long been used in the lexicon of forestry language and we can now add a new word, “codology”, because that is the best description of the recent activity announced by Coillte, a State-supported company...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...to the minerals that are produced in electric cars and the ethics around the harvesting of the likes of lithium and cobalt, particularly in countries where child labour is being used. Has Ireland taken any steps to try to understand those considerations? The local authority in Waterford has announced a plan to provide an additional 12 on-street charging points in the city in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...to see good developments in that regard and a new advance factory under construction there. I wish to ask Ms Buckley a couple of questions about IDA strategy. One of them relates to the land banks the IDA may hold and the parks it holds. In Waterford, for instance, the IDA is probably selling off some of its assets. I am not quite sure what will end up happening in the older park....

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the subject came up in the pre-legislative scrutiny work of the committee. Insurance reform has been a long-running saga in Ireland, to say the least. As I said to the Minister of State and Tánaiste in the committee, I seem to remember a Fine Gael Minister in Wexford who came and went trying to deliver insurance reform....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I might remind the Minister there was never a need to buy additional land in Waterford. We already had three sites with planning permission that could have been developed. I have seen how Government can walk through walls since I have come in here. I saw it when Deputy McHugh moved forward the public private partnership, PPP, for the Munster Technological University MTU. I have seen two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the proposal and closing date, institution and value with respect to each land acquisition undertaken by the Higher Education Authority-funded higher education institutions between 2011 and 2021. [45505/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...Education and Skills if he will provide a detailed explanation of the process and milestones, including a schedule of Department circulars or regulations, with respect to open-market opportunity land acquisitions by Higher Education Authority-funded higher education institutions. [45506/22]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...done about it? The amount of oversight, regulation and bureaucracy involved in delivering public sector contract builds is retarding output and driving up finished-cost prices. Even for development on public lands, the time taken to expedite the build and receive settlement payment is too long and the price is too costly. In my area, I have seen private sector housing delivered in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...convention centre and the Dunkettle interchange. Contrast this with how Waterford has been treated. There has been no capital budget approved for the South East Technological University and a review of a land purchase to add to the Waterford campus footprint has now been going on for 14 months. While UCC is granted a new school of medicine, the engineering buildings promised to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...relates to how a community dividend, which in general in the wind sector is looked at for about 15 years over the lifetime of a farm, should be paid every year. If a turbine turns at sea or on land, a community needs to be resourced from that. I am worried not only about amenities in tourism but also about the fishing industry. Ms O’Connell might speak about Scotland in a moment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...additional to the Government's previous commitment to provide €5 million for the development of the runway extension and ancillary buildings at the airport. This will allow Boeing 737s and Airbus A340s to land there for the first time. The visit of the Minister of State was welcome, but I would like to hear very shortly that once shareholder agreement is hopefully reached and an...

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...to the Minister. I expect that this funding will be delivered by way of grant aid and not be based on some public procurement capital plan. Currently, we are a year down the road in Waterford in trying to acquire lands for the South East Technological University. Grant money would be the most expeditious way to deliver funding to the airport. If the cost envelope for this new runway...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...'s decision to reform the fair deal scheme to allow properties to become available to the rental market. The Minister also mentioned the possibility of providing modular home solutions on public lands that could revert back to the State in the future as part of temporary housing stock. This initiative must be expedited immediately. There is no reason to delay it. The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the oversight or review bodies that were involved in ascertaining the value of land (details supplied) prior to purchase; the individual activities undertaken by these bodies in terms of cost-benefit analysis, independent land price review and adherence to college strategic funding plans; the degree of variance that existed between these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Issues (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position of land (details supplied) on a mean average price per acre applicable to capital acquisitions in the university and IT sector over the past three years; if he will be extending approvals to other new technological universities to pay up to such a rate for new land acquisitions; if he plans to make transparent reimbursement to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Land Issues (26 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in approving funding to purchase a landholding (details supplied) in County Waterford to expand the Waterford institute of Technology and South East Technological University footprint on which sale negotiations with WIT began in March 2021 with a sale agreement in principle reached in September 2021; the reason for...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Ireland has set itself the ambitious targets of a 50% reduction in carbon output by 2030 and of carbon neutrality by 2050. The recent IPCC report again outlines the significant challenges that are facing mankind and our need to prevent global temperature increases above 1.5°C over the coming years and decades. We need to significantly change our consumption habits and our energy use if...