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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the capital expenditure by Cork Institute of Technology, now Munster Technological University, since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of all funding made available to the Grangegorman Development Agency since its inception by date, value and purpose of all current and capital exchequer funding, and other funding including borrowings, all identified by source. [45516/22]

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: On behalf of the Regional Group, I thank our parliamentary assistant, Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh, for the work she has done on this motion. We are in an energy security difficulty and an energy cost crisis. I want to read into the record commentary from the Irish Petrol Retailers Association. A station owner, Johnny Brady of Coolquay, recently received an electricity bill of €23,000 for...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Over the space of 12 months, there has been a €1,000 increase in annual household gas and electricity bills, with some commentators suggesting this could end up reaching up to €6,000 per annum. This is unsustainable for households and domestic businesses. I know of business owners who are paying up to €100,000 per year in gas and energy bills and who are now facing...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Everett McKinley Dirksen, a US politician and civil rights activist, coined the famous phrase, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money". Never in the history of the State have we had as large a sum of public money to disburse. It is €85.8 billion next year, up 6.5% on last year. With that also, never has our national debt been higher. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Costs (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister. I would never say that she is a person who does not have concern for those going back to school. I welcome the expenditure she has secured in terms of advance steps. I will refer to those who are not eligible for back-to-school payments. Recent surveys have shown that the average cost of sending a child back to school is now nearly €1,200 for a primary school...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Costs (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: As the Minister will know, many people who are in receipt of social welfare payments are not eligible to receive this allowance. These include those receiving rent supplement, the guardian's payment and benefits for the blind. There are people who need this support who are not eligible. I have specific concerns for the squeezed middle, for example, families where there are two working...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Costs (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department is planning to offset September back-to-school costs, given they are just around the corner. [38907/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Costs (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Will the Minister outline the steps her Department is taking in terms of supporting back-to-school expenditure?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Dental Services (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the present status of the public dental treatment programme; and the steps that she is taking to ensure that persons are getting access to the scheme. [38908/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests for attending the meeting. I join Deputy Stanton in saying that this needs to happen very quickly. I have experience of working in two companies in Ireland, in SMEs in the medical device area, where patenting was a particular problem. Cost was the main issue in trying to do patents in different countries and trying to figure out where one could and could not protect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will make one other point. In the higher education sector in this country we hold an awful lot of intellectual property rights. In some cases the property is patent-protected; in some cases it is not. Commercial companies may be sought to come in to assist. They might look at the IP in the context of commercialisation and see how that might be rolled out. The first question becomes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Are we adjourning now or going into private session?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (12 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 221. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department contributes to a special incentive or other support as a cost offset to the carbon generating activities of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (12 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 973. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to dental care (details supplied); if he will review contract terms for provision of public dental services in Waterford; the steps being taken to provide dental care to medical card holders in the Waterford city area, some of which are waiting in extreme pain and duress; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (12 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who required in-hospital treatment for foot complications and lower-limb amputations in University Hospital Waterford over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37949/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (12 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1033. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who required in hospital treatment for foot complications and lower-limb amputations in St. Luke's General Hospital over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37951/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (12 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1034. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who required in hospital treatment for foot complications and lower-limb amputations in South Tipperary Hospital over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37952/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 1035. To ask the Minister for Health the updated status of the vascular surgical consultant position at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); if this post has been recognised and approved by the Consultant Applications Advisory Committee; if not, the status of any such application required from the South West Hospital Group management to the Committee; the timeline for such an...