Results 881-900 of 2,283 for speaker:Matt Shanahan

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Again, I asked about capital investment and the schedule.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Start-up and Scaling Environment in Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. On scale, and I am not sure if this is being done already or if there are plans to do so, I refer to providing a kind of driver's manual of how to set up a company. Many SMEs take the approach where they first set up a small limited company. Down the line then, the way the company is incorporated becomes a barrier to trying to sort out bringing in additional investment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Start-up and Scaling Environment in Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: That is a very good point and one the committee should take on board. Mr. Caulfield is absolutely right. The IP strategy and patents provide protection but having a good business model and product can be a good defender in itself because branding can be built around that and people will come to understand its uniqueness and how to possibly defend it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Start-up and Scaling Environment in Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the delegations for coming in. It is great to get a broad outline of where we are probably going and the steps the Government has been taking to try to look at providing investment in the broad economic sector. I am somebody who has experience. I was involved in two health business services. The first thing I would say is that it is incredibly difficult to build any business,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the project details for a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14282/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I am glad to hear the Taoiseach finally acknowledge there is a roadmap to get to a 24-7 service. It is the first time that has been acknowledged in this House. I invited him to come to Waterford and visit University Hospital Waterford, so I was very glad to see him there. As I pointed out to him in private conversation, there are still exceptional challenges at the hospital, not least the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I remind the Taoiseach of the words he delivered in Waterford in July 2017, when he signalled he was the future. He said, "So long as I am Taoiseach Waterford will not be neglected or forgotten." I remember well the hope his speech inspired as a signal that the vicious perishing unleashed by the Administration of his predecessor, Enda Kenny, was coming to an end. We surveyed the wreckage...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy scheme mortgages drawn down in Waterford and nationally in two years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12355/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless people on the housing list in Waterford and nationally, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12340/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes completed in the past two years in Waterford and nationally, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12350/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes, broken down by houses and apartments, respectively completed in Waterford and nationally in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12351/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of funding presently being provided to UHW and to CHO5 to provide a community neuro-rehabilitation team (details supplied); the number of whole-time equivalent positions and the specialisation of each, between acute hospital service and community service, respectively; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1005. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department carries out any economic or value for money evaluation in respect of the annual €1 million bill for the two Cork PPP projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12717/23]

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

Matt Shanahan: 1006. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the arrangements with respect to the €5 million in emergency funding provided to IT Tralee in 2019/2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12718/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1007. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the impact of rising interest rates on the borrowing of our university sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12719/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1008. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 25 May 2016, in respect of 100 major capital projects listed, to identify which projects proceeded and which have not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12720/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1009. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the various procurement stages in respect of the acquisition of Premier House by the Institute of Technology Tallaght, now TUD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12721/23]

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

Matt Shanahan: 1010. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a detailed explanation of 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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1011. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail capital expenditure within each of the technological universities since their creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12725/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1047. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum applications made nationally in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12359/23]