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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Good morning to our guests. I welcome this legislation. As a regional Deputy, I think it potentially offers great opportunity for people to try to work remotely. It may not be every day of the week but it would be a number of days. We are spending money on innovation hubs and working hubs around the country. This is a good opportunity to try to cut down on the amount of commuting and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I will point out two things. The Tánaiste was here last week, talking about developing occupier's liability insurance. He is hoping to introduce something to address that shortly. I imagine that, at the present time, that extends to somebody who is contracted to work at home. It might be a stretch but I am sure that many legal eagles around the country would not mind trying to create...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: What about a new contract? I am referring to one offered now rather than one agreed in the past two years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Mr. Doheny. The issue of insurance has not been well thought-out in this legislation. We might be solving one problem but creating another. That is what I would like to see put to bed.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill is basically a Government initiative to soften the blow of rising energy prices. However it is framed, it entails a once-off payment of €100 to every domestic electricity supply in the country. It is not being means-tested, as the Minister of State outlined, being too onerous for the Department to consider....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 463. To ask the Minister for Health the reason community health workers, those working in disability areas and section 38/39 workers are being excluded from the proposed bonus payment to frontline healthcare workers as in the case of a person (details supplied); the criteria underpinning this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5730/22]

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome this Bill and I wish to congratulate the Minister on bringing it forward, particularly given its long gestation and the many false starts. Higher education is a serious business. It is critical to our economic, social, and cultural progress. When you gather all the sources of public funding flowing into these institutions, it becomes a serious sum. Our methods of oversight and...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Like everyone else in the House, I welcome the public health advice. It now signals, I hope, a transition out of Covid. We will be asking questions about what we have learned. There are a couple of issues I would like to raise in that regard, one of which is the use of antigen testing. We will have to figure out how for 15 months we could not implement a public health measure which has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: What the Taoiseach has referenced there is the ability of people in the south east to get up and go. I absolutely concur with that. The issue I am talking about is an infrastructural piece, which is Waterford Airport. The Taoiseach accused me of developing conspiracy theories. I put it to him that €350,000 in annual stopgap funding has been withdrawn and that the airport was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: So it is a "No".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: There is a range of areas that need investment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We are not talking about the technological university. I am talking specifically about the airport.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Yes, across a range of areas. This is a key one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: All these things are necessary.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the House for the forbearance. I congratulate and thank the Government - I should say our Government - for the belated wisdom in amending the Department of Transport's provisional tender questionnaire for the Irish Coast Guard air and sea rescue services. It comes as a great relief to all of us in the south east who rely on this service. It begs the question as to whether a larger...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the bundle II public-private partnership building programmes promised to Waterford Institute of Technology and Carlow campuses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5288/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to enlarge the Waterford Institute of Technology campus area through land acquisition; the existing land ownership holding presently available to WIT area in acres by combining its assets on the Cork Road and Carraiganore and any other areas in its ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5289/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget parameters his Department envisages providing for new teaching space at Waterford Institute of Technology; the timeframe under consideration to disburse such funds excluding the long-promised engineering building PPP; the routes available for the college or the new Technological University of the South East to borrow money to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if section 39 community health workers will be included in the pandemic bonus payments announced for other healthcare workers given the exceptional work services provided by them (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5267/22]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Like other speakers, I welcome the performance of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland in particular. I have been engaging with Mr. Martin Shanahan and we are very happy in Waterford about the announcement of the advanced factory. The contract has been signed to build that so that is good news. The Minister highlighted in his presentation that there was an €80 million carryover from...