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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: At the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment this morning, we met representatives from the SME community and listened to the tsunami of difficulties facing small and medium-sized businesses in this country. They range from energy bills to delays in accessing energy grants and rebates, on top of rising rates, insurance problems and town planning issues, which are crippling many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Issues Facing Small Businesses: Discussion (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome and thank everybody, including those online, for attending the meeting. I echo Deputy Stanton on recurring meetings, except I think they should happen every quarter. I have been on the record for some time about the challenges facing the SME space and have stated in the committee that the SME sector is treated as a second-class citizen in our economy. We are all about FDI and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Issues Facing Small Businesses: Discussion (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It was good to hear the comments on town centre planning and so forth. There are major traffic issues in Waterford city. We are trying to introduce cycle lanes in the middle of what is a vital city where street sizes are constrained. Planning is a problem and has to be discussed, but we might revert to the immediate point under discussion, that being, the energy difficulties and levels of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Issues Facing Small Businesses: Discussion (16 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Would Ms Buckley like to discuss sector-specific supports?

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: As the Minister outlined and heard from other speakers, we have significant problems within the retained fire service nationally. I will give some statistics for the Waterford fire stations. We have 32 full-time and 16 retained firefighters in the fire service in Waterford city. This crew of 48 handles approximately 450 calls per year. Outside the city, Kilmacthomas has six retained...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: As the Minister of State knows, I come from a region of the country that has three of the foremost scientific gateways, those being, the South Eastern Applied Materials Research Centre, SEAM, the Pharmaceutical and Molecular Biotechnology Research Centre, PMBRC, and the Walton Institute. I thank the Minister, Deputy Harris - we are trying to get research funding for a new CT X-ray and I...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the number of ecologists involved in processing the 11 afforestation licences on week four of October 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56599/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (15 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the actual output versus the phased projected monthly plan for licence and scheme approvals in his Department's plan for October 2022 for Coillte felling, private felling, roads, afforestation, Ash dieback RUS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56598/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (10 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional energy rebates or energy tax considerations that the Government is considering to apply to the SME sector in order to retain jobs and businesses over the coming six months given the significant energy cost difficulties facing many SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53736/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of remuneration increase proposed to PhDs during this academic year and in the years to follow 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55979/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the increases in budget 2022 in relation to PhD remuneration will come to pass; when PhDs can expect to see this remuneration increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55980/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the range and scope of the proposed review of the salary scales and remuneration on offer to PhDs (details supplied); the proposed timing of when such a review might report; his views on what is adequate remuneration for PhD students and post-doctoral research and working in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides with regard to the difficulties he envisages and the reasons he has put forward as to why he feels that a periodic review will be difficult. We differ on that, but I accept that is his position. With regard to the commitment he has given within the amendment to engage with stakeholders, is there something that could be written within that to...

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister of State for engaging with us in his new brief. To be fair, the former Minister of State, Deputy Troy, also engaged on this. Deputy O'Reilly and I are members of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the subject came up in the pre-legislative scrutiny work of the committee. Insurance reform has been a long-running saga in Ireland, to say the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I understand a decision on funding for the Waterford North Quays development is being considered by the Cabinet today. Will the Taoiseach confirm its status? I understood the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, would be taking Leaders' Questions today and I wanted to ask about student accommodation. My question is about what is being proposed for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is very good news that the Taoiseach has confirmed funding for the North Quays development. I extend sincere thanks to all my Oireachtas colleagues in the south east, in particular the Deputies from Waterford and Senator Cummins, and, most especially, to the Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and their offices. They have engaged with me...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank my colleague, Deputy Naughten, and Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh, who have done a significant amount of work on this issue. Without doubt, long Covid is here to stay. It is a medical syndrome; there is no doubt about that. As the Minister of State observed, it is very difficult to see where the treatment regimes are going but we have to build a comprehensive service and put it in place...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We all understand the importance of the home care model for preserving people's dignity and giving them independence to live as long as they can in their own home, particularly those with additional care needs. We want to preserve people's independence and keep them out of the acute hospital system as long as possible. However, there is a crisis in the sector, as the Ministers of State...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: This Bill makes amendments to the Credit Guarantee Act and supports the needs of businesses to access additional finance in response to the economic difficulties resulting from the Ukraine war. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment and this is something we have been flagging and requesting to be done as quickly as possible. The State-backed Ukraine...