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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that all school bus capacity including special education transport will return to 100%, in relation to the return to full school bus capacity; the position in relation to getting full capacity reinstated; the length of time this process will take; if all eligible children will be accommodated going forward; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process in relation to the return of testing and tracing within the education system and the way that will impact on the school environment both in primary and secondary educational facilities; if testing and tracing will be reinstated for those who are close contacts of positive cases within the school environment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the overall operational spend in each hospital (details supplied) over the past five years; the whole-time equivalent number of staff in each for the period in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56708/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake to withdraw a job specification for a position (details supplied) at University Hospital Waterford and readvertise the position for a cardiologist only in order to facilitate filling the post; if not, the clinical reasons this specification is required; the other percutaneous coronary intervention cath lab services nationally that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the witnesses. I want to direct my questions purely to the Department, if I may please. I want to acknowledge the sacrifice of the crews of Rescue 116 and Rescue 111, which crashed in 1999, as I did in the Dáil last night. Again, I express my sympathies to their families and the family of Caitríona Lucas. The responsibility for the leadership of the air-sea rescue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I will not and that is as far as I am going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I would appreciate that. I would point out that we have a valuable service in the south-east region. An airport is under threat simply because of the lack of funding. It is breathtaking. As I said last night, the figure of €350,000 that is needed to support our services in Waterford has been rescinded, while the figure of €126 million has been allocated to the rest of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I ask the Chair that in the follow-up discussions Mr. Clonan would come back to this point. It is an extremely important point for air-sea rescue. It started in 2018. I accept that there are difficulties around training. I accept that there are difficulties with Covid-19. However, in light of the Rescue 116 report and what we now know, we cannot afford to be delaying this any longer....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: To reiterate, I asked about the development of a policy document similar to the UK Civil Aviation Authority's CAP 999 document. Does the Department or the IAA have something in place? The CAP 999 document is on governance and standard operating procedures for helicopter search and rescue services. I also asked Ms O'Keeffe to set out her personal opinion on the use of a fixed-wing aircraft...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Will Ms O'Keeffe address the question on the fixed-wing aircraft?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Mr. Clonan will obviously acknowledge that the use of fixed-wing aircraft is a far better solution for top cover than asking two rescue helicopters to co-ordinate.

Air Accident Investigation Unit Final Report into R116 air accident: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I asked a question on night vision technology, which has been deployed in Sligo. I asked why there is a delay in deploying it to other aircraft and why it is only approved for helicopter emergency medical services activity. Will the Minister of State come back to the House and to me with regard to search and rescue?

Air Accident Investigation Unit Final Report into R116 air accident: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I extend my sympathies to the family of Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, chief pilot, Mark Duffy, winch operator, Paul Ormsby, and winchman, Ciarán Smith. I also want to remember the four Air Corps members of R111 who lost their lives in Waterford in 1999, also as a result of a tragic accident: Captains Dave O’Flaherty and Mick Baker, Sergeant Paddy Mooney and Corporal Niall Byrne....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our witnesses. It is a bit like Groundhog Day, other than that, unfortunately, the business environment will probably get a lot more challenging for some sectors, especially smaller SMEs. Like Deputy Bruton and others, I welcome SCARP. Mr. McDonnell has outlined it very well. Many businesses will be carrying debt, particularly those that have availed of warehousing. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Mr. McDonnell. I will come back to Mr. Hughes. What is the Department considering to try to mirror where the capital spending programme is going? We are putting €10 billion this year into capital projects. Does the Department have any plan to try to align worker recruitment activity and training to these areas?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report detailing the past five years Department expenditures clearly delineated between all capital and non-capital disbursements including research grants through the Higher Education Authority, Science Foundation Ireland and other agencies providing third-level funding supports which were provided to UCC, UL, UCG, UCD,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report detailing the past five years Department expenditures clearly delineated between all capital and non-capital disbursements including research grants through the Higher Education Authority, Science Foundation Ireland and other agencies providing third-level funding supports which were provided to all institutes of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I ask Mr. McDonnell to elaborate on what he said about insurance access. We know that several underwriters have left the market, soft play outdoor adventure centres cannot get insurance and point-to-point racing is now out of insurance. Mr. McDonnell mentioned that judges are walking away from the recently revised book of quantum. Is there any opportunity for self-insurance? Could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The last point I made to Mr. Hughes regarding the ability of farmers to immediately implement a reduction in carbon emissions is something the Department needs to take up with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It could be done for the next growing season if energy was put behind that proposal.

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the Minister back to the House and I congratulate her on the new addition to her family. The members of the Regional Group of Independent Deputies will be supporting this Bill. We will all probably remember that not very many years ago, the then Minister, Senator McDowell, suggested when he was in Government that Ireland should have a café culture and society. Little did...