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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. It is a wide-ranging area. I had the misfortune to study physics in secondary school thinking I was going to do mechanical engineering but I ended up in a course that was all about maths, which I hated. I will raise the matter of the learning background for physics and the curriculum, particularly at secondary school. My own kids are going through that stage at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: We absolutely need specialist teachers because teachers do so much to motivate and influence students. I will raise a couple more points. The first relates to the STEM route and more apprenticeships and craft working. Our guests are probably well aware that there are now far more opportunities for people to go on to third level. We have a kind of hangover, compared with places such as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: If our guests are talking to the Department, they should mention that kids should be going into industry far sooner. They should be going in as first and second years even for a short while just to see what the industry space is like and the opportunities that are available. The elephant in the room as we develop in this area is artificial intelligence, AI. It will impact not only on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I imagine they are getting some great papers from ChatGPT.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I will return to the issue of integration at university or technological university level. I am particularly interested in where the technological university sector is going. In Waterford, where I am from, we had Waterford Institute of Technology, which is now the hub of the new South East Technological University. We have three scientific gateways down there - the Pharmaceutical and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Can the institute do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I think the institute has a platform and a voice that perhaps a lot of people in the research community do not have. The next issue I will touch on is the circular economy. Deputy Bruton might speak to this as it is a particular favourite of his. It appears that it will have to be a very big area and you imagine that there will be a lot of aptitude there for people to get involved from the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Before I start, I mark the passing of Ollie Cleary, a past mayor of Waterford and somebody who campaigned tirelessly for 20 years for the South East Technological University, SETU. It is show time all over again. I feel as though somebody should stand up and question the wisdom of breaking the fiscal rules in developing this budget, particularly given how without the windfall corporation...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (10 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps she and her Department are taking to pressure insurance companies to pass on savings, following the publication of an article (details supplied) outlining how the implementation of judicial guidelines has caused a slump in the number of personal injury cases being taken to the courts; if she will consider supporting a windfall tax gain on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (10 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 482. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a HSE tender (details supplied); if he will give a guarantee that the Waterford surgical hub will be nominated first to be constructed and awarded the highest priority, given the high level of surgical activity at University Hospital, Waterford and in its subsidiary unit in Kilcrene, County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The latest Central Statistics Office, CSO, data show a massive discrepancy in disposable income between Dublin and the south west versus the Border areas, the midlands and the south east. In fact, for Dublin and the south west, the figures are 20% and 4% above the average, respectively, while the figure for the south east and the midlands is minus 20%. There is a 40% difference, therefore,...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Am I done? I thought we had more time.

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The debate is to finish at 12 noon.

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Chair. I want to speak about Garda transfers. Gardaí have been waiting for many years for transfers with not a hope of getting one. This is why we see early retirements. It is something the Minister has to look at. We need radical action and this is what the vote represents. It is frustration among rank-and-file gardaí. It is a communications issue with governance...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh in our parliamentary service for helping us with the motion, and I thank the line Minister, Deputy McEntee, for being in attendance for the entirety of the debate. That does not happen often and, as such, we note the Minister's attendance and thank her for it. As we know, it has been 100 years since the foundation of An Garda Síochána. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister of State and Ms Higgins for attending. The Minister of State has a very important job as regards reuse and recycling. The biggest environmental challenge we see at present is that of microplastics in the oceans. Even at European level, we do not seem to be making any great strides in trying to address the amount of plastic we are producing. I will return to an issue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Can I put a question to the Minister of State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: On the issue of fly-tipping, it came out previously that if a camera is to be deployed on a site for fly-tipping, locals cannot do it. The local authority has to do it. Will the Minister of State look at that? The local authority cannot get out to rural areas where there is fly-tipping going on. Locals are prepared - indeed, in my own area, we tried to do this - to put in their own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I am talking about the roadway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Can a community alert scheme or a community security scheme deploy its own cameras?