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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1093. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of budget provision that has been set aside to fund the seven-day opening of the emergency cathlab suite at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47253/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1094. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that was allocated to allow University Hospital Waterford cater to the emergency patient streams that occurred because of the Wexford ED closure; if he will provide the quantum of funding provisioned; the status of this money as to whether paid over as of yet or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47254/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1183. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the hospital group CEOs across all hospital groups hold other remunerated positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47836/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1184. To ask the Minister for Health the oversight mechanism for approving hospital group CEO expenses across all hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47837/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1185. To ask the Minister for Health what mechanisms are in place to administer conflicts of interest for all hospital group CEOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47838/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 18 October 2023, to provide a detail of the date of each decision gate, the project budget at each decision gate, the overall cost of any completed projects and the overall financial disbursement from voted expenditure from the Department in respect of each completed project; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to advise what cut-off date is being discussed within his Department to end formal consideration of the phase two PPP capital delivery including the proposed engineering building to the WIT campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48252/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills understanding that design plans have been obviously completed considering formal negotiation of PPP delivery of engineering building to WIT campus and understanding that the PPP process appears unable to be fulfilled, the other pathways his Department is reviewing in order to separate this construction and tender for direct build; how...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Reform (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing process that decides approval for the provision of pharmacy and veterinary faculties and course development (details supplied); the reason for the delay in providing approval to these applications; if he will commit to providing an end-date by which a decision will be concluded and publicly communicated; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a framework for the university sector to develop student accommodation will be agreed; the quantum of capital funding his Department plans to make available to the technological university sector, and specifically SETU, to advance student accommodation builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48255/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of higher education in the southeast region, given that unlike other regions, there is no National University; how this deficit in regional higher level provision is being considered by his Department with respect to the development of SETU; the actions he has taken to date and the funding provision he has made available that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: There is much to admire in the shared island initiative as it gingerly tries to figure out how we can all live on this island together. Given the demographic destiny that is beating like a Lambeg drum now, it might prove to have been a little too slow and too careful in getting the well-meaning enhanced co-operation, connection and mutual understanding in place before events take over....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regional Development (26 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline where the balanced regional spend to the south east has been accomplished since the formation of the Thirty-third Dáil (details supplied). [46935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Appeals Commission (26 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance for a breakdown of the number of determinations arrived at for the years 2020 to 2022, by each individual tax appeals commissioner. [47173/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It may be somewhat harsh but possibly fair to say the Government is not particularly loved or cherished by the people. Most, I suppose, are not. I recently went back to review the relevant Fine Gael manifesto, remembering the deep sense of political change I hoped for when there was a change of Government in 2011. It is the document of a party that spent a long time wondering what it would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: -----particularly Enda Kenny’s opening comments that the pre-existing political culture had abandoned the principles underpinning the Republic that Fine Gael founded in 1949, had distorted the power and resources of the State for the benefit of the few, not the many, and had allowed the interests of citizens to be pushed behind those of powerful elites. Those are strong words which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach may that when Deputy Micheál Martin was first nominated for Taoiseach, I said I would not support the nomination as a protest against the lack of 24-7 cardiac care. I did say I looked forward to engaging with the Government in a programme that showed equity and transparency at its core. The south east has 11% of this nation’s population. I challenge the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I congratulate Ms Byron on her important appointment. Before I speak about the HSA, I will go back to her previous role in the insurance sector, which is important to this committee. Ms Byron was previously the CEO of PIAB and a past chairperson of the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland. It appears that the judicial guidelines are having an effect on compensation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I was just seeking an opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Byron. Getting to her role in the HSA, she has succinctly highlighted the challenges and the good work the HSA has been doing for a number of years. That is plain to be seen, particularly in the construction sector. Anybody who has worked in that sector over the past 20 years will have seen a marked change in culture and compliance. Certainly, in larger building concerns,...