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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: It would be safe to say that 2024 is now 1984. Potentially, that is where we have gone to. That is me done. I thank our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the witnesses again. I have a final question. I think we are all getting to the point where we understand that what is really required here is legislation. If Dr. O'Sullivan has done any work on this, can she outline who should be the final arbiter of deciding what monitoring or surveillance should take place in terms of employees across different work platforms? Where would that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Does Dr. O'Sullivan think any consensus on that would radiate across sectors? It seems to me it will be very hard to come to a blanket position on this because different sectors will have different requirements and will argue for different approaches to monitoring. I am trying to understand how we might look at this if we want to underpin it legislatively. I accept that co-operative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Dr. O'Sullivan.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: RTÉ reported recently, on the basis of figures provided by my constituency colleague, Deputy Cullinane, that the average waiting time for admission through emergency departments in hospitals has increased and now stands at 11.7 hours. It also stated that children and over-75s are waiting up to 13.3 hours. Stephen McMahon of the Irish Patients Association correctly pointed out that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 916. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the HSE's insistence on treating a charity group (details supplied) differently from other charities providing medical services whereby the HSE deducts professional services withholding tax from payments, which severely restricts the activities of the charity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24945/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (23 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 917. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the latest three-monthly numbers of emergency department presentations for the nine acute model 4 hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24946/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 918. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the nine model 4 acute hospitals in the country, if he will publish the latest quarter running/expenditure costs for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24947/23]

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the tenor of the Bill and the principles to which it speaks. The Irish people do not in principle support any type of State investment that is seen to underpin or to profit from the ongoing annexation of Palestine by the state of Israel. We in Ireland know at first hand what colonialism looks like and what partition does to a country and its people. We know what apartheid...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the German Bundestag along with members of the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce and we also had significant people there from the wind energy development sector. The main purpose of the visit was to highlight to Germany how Ireland can be a significant contributor to green hydrogen in the coming years. The current German national...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (16 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can explain the reason the main banks are not paying any interest on deposit accounts held on behalf of ordinary citizens, despite the increase in revenue resulting from the higher interest rates being paid on these deposits by the European Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22371/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (16 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide information on recent media reports that a possible dairy retirement and reduction scheme may be introduced in 2024; if he will outline the broad thrust of such a scheme; if he will provide any clarification as to the breadth of ambition within his Department to deliver dairy farm retirements; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (16 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where the legal ownership status of the designated SETU land purchase of 20.3 acres of the old Waterford crystal site stand; the present legal status regarding the ownership of this site; if due diligence is still ongoing; the possible delays that could be preventing the transfer of the site, given it was originally highlighted for sale in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the announcement of a construction tender award for the long-awaited PPP funded engineering building block to the old Waterford IT campus and given the statement by the Taoiseach (details supplied), his views on a calendar date for this tender award to be achieved; if he will give a guaranteed date for the award of this construction...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Project Ireland 2040 (11 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform as the new Chair of the Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board, the processes and procedures he hopes to implement that will speak to a fair allocation of national capital monies to individual regions and populations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22059/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there has been any update or review of the national capital tracker to provide greater transparency in terms of projects status, development timelines and associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22057/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Service Executive (11 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what input his Department has in terms of ongoing HSE capital allocations, given the new attention on capital budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22061/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with respect to the national capital tracker, if his Department plans to provide an annual comparative analysis of annual spend by project and sector with respect to regional population benefit and cumulative capital spend in that region and sector over the previous three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (11 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the National Development Plan expenditure envisaged by his Department; the road projects that are being considered in terms of upgrading the N24 and N25 roads (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22060/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the departmental capital tracker plan outlining any improvements that have increased visibility on funding timelines and project completions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11589/23]