Results 1,001-1,020 of 2,283 for speaker:Matt Shanahan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome Mr. O'Leary and Mr. Wilson. I had business dealings with Mr. O'Leary over 20 years ago which he will hardly remember but he has not lost any of his forthrightness in the interim.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Mr. Wilson knows I was on the Covid-19 committee and we certainly lobbied hard for the aviation sector and I am a big supporter of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I noted Mr. O'Leary's comments on the aspirations of Ryanair to continue to develop the short-haul sector and that Ireland represents 8% of the company's overall dynamic at the moment. With respect to Waterford Airport expansion, of which I have obviously been a strong supporter, I note his comments. I do not think it is helpful at this time to have a debate about where the funding for that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It will come down to the commercial realities on the ground and we will have to wait and see where all of that goes. There is significant private investment and the taxpayer is not going to be on the hook for major money. As the taxpayer has certainly put major money into other aspects of regional aviation and nothing into Waterford, what is going in there will be a drop in the ocean to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Let me refer to two companies. The first, a large Dublin company owned by a European concern, has been engaged in ethanol production. It has been trying to do blending for several years. The other company is in County Laois. It has a plastics-to-fuel blending business. I was involved with it for several years. I wish it luck. I would like to put the delegates in touch with those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I am not a member of this committee, but it would be good if there were to be a revisiting of what has been outlined regarding this ETS and perhaps getting representatives in from the DAA. That organisation will certainly not go for it and it needs to be interrogated. Perhaps Ryanair might give some of the economic research it has done to the committee. It is the same in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Quite successfully. I thank Mr. O'Leary.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on disability benefit were excluded from receiving the once-off payment of €500 cost-of-living measure announced in budget 2023; if she will consider including them in this payment; the other benefits that recipients were excluded from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58946/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 757. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the overhead and margin percentage used by the forest service of his Department in the afforestation grant rates for the next forestry programme, as recently published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58728/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date he expects to publish his forestry licensing plan for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58729/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Taoiseach knows I am someone who has engaged with the Minister and Department with responsibility for children on trying to secure accommodation in Waterford and the south east for Ukrainian refugees. My question relates to abuses occurring in our immigration system. Recently I wrote to the Minister for Justice regarding the status of people leaving other European jurisdictions on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will address the area of technology sector, if I may, and then address issues regarding the IDA in a second round. I thank Ms Buckley for her written contribution. I will split it into three parts and ask Ms Buckley to address the three. In the first part, the IDA has highlighted the need for investment in skills, research, innovation. Ireland is a centre of regulatory excellence and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will make a final observation. Recently, I attended a wind networking meeting where I met people from the UK who were involved in cybersecurity. They told me that we had no cybersecurity framework for the wind generation we were planning. I assume this is something that the witnesses' organisations wish to pressure the Government to address.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to direct some comments to the IDA. I acknowledge the contributions of Martin Shanahan and Barry O'Leary before him. My brother David was head of business development in the IDA for a couple of years. The agency's results over recent years have been terrific. I acknowledge also the Waterford development. It has been slow coming but, thankfully, we are now starting to see good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Does Ms Buckley have any concerns about the FDI component of our tax revenue in the future? Let us say there was a change in taxation policy in the United States, which President Trump mooted in respect of repatriating overseas companies when he was in office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Buckley. Regarding the integration of the new technological universities, this model has application throughout the country in respect of these institutions contributing to industrial research. I might have a conversation with Ms Buckley in the future, one to one, in respect of the networks in Waterford, which is an area I am interested in. The hinterland there extends to other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: There is also the South Eastern Applied Materials Research Centre at the South East Technological University, SETU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Buckley.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I certainly acknowledge that delivery is on the way. I thank the Taoiseach for that. I point out, however, that the south east still cannot see whether it is getting a fair share of capital funding. In fact, Deputies essentially vote on a black box when it comes to the €10 billion capital allocation. It is a message for the Government that people throughout the country need to see...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is half time for this Government. I once asked the Taoiseach, perhaps unkindly, whether he is a Cork Taoiseach or a Taoiseach who happens to be from Cork. That remains an open question. Under his tenure, I have watched Cork flourish, finally putting to bed the sad days of Ford and Dunlop. I know this was an era from which the Taoiseach's political philosophy was hewn and from which he...