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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I am informed that they are but I may be corrected. I understand they are if they have missed payments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: They apply highly unfavourable practices to small, primary producers. I will be happy to talk to the Tánaiste about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The 1 million workers represented by the SME community are not represented on the LEEF. With respect, I do not believe they are properly represented on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I think IBEC has a mandate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I often mention University Hospital Waterford here. I congratulate the management team because it is now recognised as the best performing model-4 hospital with regard to trolley counts and it is the only acute model 4 to reduce its outpatient waiting list by 20% so far this year. I have key questions that relate capital resources to which the Taoiseach's office might respond. They relate...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered any ringfencing of funding to upgrade the N25 (details supplied); if he will outline the upgrades that have been identified as feasible along this route; the activity that is taking place within his Department to progress this route for upgrade and improved safety works; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Research and Training (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of medical students that are at present enrolled segmented in the six medical schools in Ireland for the most recent five-year period by college and gender and if the student originated in Ireland and is an overseas candidate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 653. To ask the Minister for Health the present status of the BreastCheck mobile scanning unit in relation to the time and schedule that it has made available in Waterford City and County (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48308/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical doctors presently registered to work in the State by gender (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will allow owners of registered companies to purchase certain vehicles (details supplied) once they can demonstrate a genuine need within their business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47659/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (29 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 20 September 2022, the reason the National Student Accommodation Strategy 2016 to 2024 targets no additional student accommodation in Waterford over the eight-year life of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47644/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: With respect to the justice Vote, I welcome the measures introduced. Everyone will welcome additional gardaí on the beat and new recruits passing through Templemore. I wish to make a point about my constituency of Waterford. It may be an issue for the Office of Public Works, OPW, but we are waiting for upgrades to the Garda station there, which is now the headquarters south east Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Chair and our guests. I join with colleagues in saying that we all want to see people having a reasonable standard of living and getting a reasonable wage but we have to also understand that there is such a thing as ability to pay. Off the top of his head, could Mr. Courtney tell me how many minimum wage workers are employed in the public service or in the multinational space as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Does Mr. Courtney think it is a high number or a low number, or possibly even a very low number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I suspect it is quite a low number to be honest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The point I am trying to make is that many of the conversations we are having here regarding low pay are largely around the private sector and commercial enterprise. Within that, we have many different sectors. The broad-brush approach to pay that I hear unions talk about does not apply. A company that was topical a couple of years ago was Debenhams, where a significant number of people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Is the Irish SME Association, ISME, one of the representative groups to which Mr. Courtney referred?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to see the Low Pay Commission engage, which I know it does, with the Departments of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Finance to see how the public service can do more to mitigate the costs felt by people in the low paid area, that is, with regard to accommodation, healthcare and training. We are also facing a tsunami of low-paid jobs in this country being overtaken by...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the idea of rainy day fund which, in theory, sounds sensible if done at scale and over the long term. The trouble in Ireland is that it rains all the time. The quantum of funding is probably not enough to address even a moderate shower, let alone a downpour. As a ring-fenced savings plan, it has its deficiencies if it is to be raided at every fall-off in national income. This...