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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Do it then.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is a political decision. It is no longer a clinical decision.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: On standing for election I gave a commitment to the people of Waterford city and county and the south east that I would do my utmost for our regional hospital, University Hospital Waterford, and the patients it serves. Yet again, I have to bring the issue of the hospital's underresourcing onto the Dáil floor. Recent work on heart attacks by the National Office of Clinical Audit using...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (24 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeline and milestones for buildings to be delivered in bundle II of the National Development Finance Agency higher education public private partnership programme; the approach to dealing with construction price inflation; the expected completion and handover dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (24 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeline and milestones for buildings being delivered in bundle I of the National Development Finance Agency higher education public private partnership programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25751/22]

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Like many others, the Tánaiste included, I welcome the introduction of a statutory sick pay scheme. As I stated in committee, however, there is an issue of discernment here in terms of the scale and size of the employers. What some of the amendments are speaking to, in seeking ten days of immediate sick leave, is wholly inappropriate for microenterprises. That needs to be said first...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I think we would all agree that every functioning democracy needs to have an independent policing authority, a police force to ensure the security of the population and the upholding of our democratic laws and mandates. In Ireland, we are lucky to have An Garda Síochána. It is a force that is recognised across the world for it close ties to community, its professionalism and the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (17 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will identify all capital, safety supports and any other grant or support funding given over the past ten years under each funding head to each individual airport, in tabular form; if the report issuing captures all Government or departmental subventions over the period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24429/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Evidence I have received in the past ten days shows the worsening clinical situation for heart attack transfers in the south east when the Waterford cath lab is closed. In the three years from 2019 to 2022, of 134 blue-light ambulance transfers from University Hospital Waterford to Cork University Hospital, not one arrived within the 90-minute treatment window. In fact, the time from call...

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Indeed I will, a Cheann Comhairle. I enjoyed some of Deputy O'Dea's prescient remarks. As the Minister of State outlined, this Bill will transpose two directives, namely, the digital content directive and the sale of goods directive, which relate to contracts for the sale of goods and contracts for the supply of digital content and services. It also transposes elements of a third...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the planning requirements that are in place in terms of solar farm development with respect to environmental impact studies and environmental impact assessments; if such studies are required for the granting of planning permission for solar or wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23712/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (10 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to an issue raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22843/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (10 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials have conformed to the consultation principles and guidance as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in November 2016 in regard to the consultation on the CAP Strategic Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22790/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (10 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an organisation (details supplied) recommends increasing afforestation rates to 16,000 hectares annually; if so, the reason for these recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22791/22]

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I am sharing time with Deputy Canney. We have ten minutes, I think.

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We are witnessing the horror of war at the moment, although we are removed from it. The destruction that is happening in Ukraine and the annexation of parts of Crimea are truly horrifying. War crimes are taking place there, brutality, rape and genocide. The Russian leadership will have to be held to account for it in the future. Pictures have come out of Bucha in the past two weeks...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I, like other members I am sure, want to see a sick pay scheme implemented. The Minister of State pointed out that employers are paying for this, which is the truth of it. In some of the preamble to the Bill he tried to give credence to the difficulty out there and he mentioned the social partnership. I wish to raise two matters. One is something I asked before and raised in the Dáil...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I would support a more robust review process in that regard. The Minister of State will see a significant change in the SME environment this year. Many companies have already availed of Government supports in terms of debt warehousing and so on. I have spoken to many businesses, particularly in the manufacturing sector. They are facing significant headwinds and none is making money....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to follow on from Deputy Bruton's point on balance. I said at meetings of this committee before that I have a slight problem at times with some of the narration on employers. I believe it was Deputy Paul Murphy who said it is the employees who are creating all the wealth. Employers have to put the structures together for productivity to happen. There is a balance to be struck. I...