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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The figures relating to the underfunding of the region are stark. On the hospital, I remind the Taoiseach that despite the increases in revenue to the operating budget that he outlined and the capital grants, it is still the least resourced of all the nine model 4 hospitals in the country. Yet, its emergency department has been the busiest in the country since March. If the Taoiseach looks...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: From the replies to my parliamentary questions, we are right.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Frank McDonald, writing in The Irish Times, recently outlined the continuing dominance of spending and resource concentration in Dublin and its surrounds, to the detriment of the other regions. The article states: "We are sleepwalking our way towards a deeply dysfunctional, inequitable and unbalanced Ireland." The allocation of capital resources to Waterford is a clear reflection of that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends increasing the income tax exemption of €36,000 for a married couple over 65 years of age (details supplied) ( €18,000 single person), given the proposed increase in the old age pension will push many retired people over the exemption limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33848/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank all our guests for attending for this very important discussion. We could probably take up an entire meeting with any one of the groups before us. Having them all here together means there is an awful lot of information. Just as this reflected in wider society, we are all having conversations about the potential and what we need to do, but there are myriad different routes we could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: What would initiate that? What would deliver that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Is it a Commission decision or a Parliament decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I ask specifically about Ireland. I presume Amber Research is probably doing this as well. Doctor Walker must be looking at technology readiness levels in different technology sectors. He probably has some idea of where we should move first fast. I ask him to expand on that. What should we be going after now early on to try to move along the climate agenda?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: With onshore wind, we have already seen the environmental impact of planning. Dr. Walker is saying we know we will see something similar. I am from the south east. I have concern about fixed pylon windmills and their proximity to the Copper Coast in Waterford. I have a concern even though I want to see offshore wind deployed. I have worked close to the bioenergy sector previously and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Chair, may I ask one question of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It is not my point; it is the European position I was trying to reflect. Incidentally, I do not agree with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I want to ask about the hydrogen strategy. I was part of a group that was in Berlin recently and hydrogen was one of the main areas we discussed there. The witnesses are probably well aware that the German economy is facing very significant decarbonisation challenges and Germany is looking to hydrogen and has estimated that it can probably produce at best 30% of its own hydrogen over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: That is the long and short of it. As regards the applications referred to, where are they at? What is the kind of development timeline of those projects? Three years or four years for a potential plant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals - Net Zero Industry Act (5 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Can Ms Joyce-O'Caollai outline where those might be?

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It must be a long time since the governance of a public body has been called into question for such a period of time and that so many questions have come to be asked and have yet to be answered. One of the main questions I have is what drove the derogation of trust and the need to conceal the spending of public moneys. Why did RTÉ management deceive the public and the Oireachtas for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Matt Shanahan: In the coming weeks, the budget will be formed and presented to this House. It must be said that no other democratic parliament would accept such a black box of spending. We will see the money going in. There will be more than €12 billion in capital expenditure next year, the bits and bobs that may find our ramshackle hospitals, our unreliable public transport and our patchy and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: There was another high-profile assault in the capital last week where a visiting actor was bottled, slashed and bitten by three youths, both female and male. One public commentator described them as feral youths running wild on our streets. It is an assault that mirrors so many others occurring across the country every weekend and week. The Garda force now numbers less that 14,000, 1,000...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (29 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of SME credit advanced in previous credit guaranteed schemes in the past 12-months, by county and sector; what that quantum of funding is, in relation to the previous year's allocation; the variance estimated in relation to the proposed new credit guaranteed SME scheme to be announced, in tabular form; and if he will make...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (28 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister of State is treading on slightly dangerous ground tonight and using the Whip on his colleagues is also putting them on dangerous ground. As Deputy Howlin has outlined, there is a process here for bringing this type of legislation into being and it has not been followed in this case. This is a very late amendment to be bringing to the House, throwing in front of people and...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (28 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I only became aware of the amendment this evening and am not as well briefed as my colleagues who are present but I wish to share with the Minister of State some of the correspondence sent to me on the matter. The correspondence states that the new section 26A the Government proposes to insert into the Data Protection Act relates to information shared by citizens that could be deemed to be...