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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the threshold of repair funding he is proposing to sanction for repair works at WIT given that previous repair applications of up to a total €20 million were requested to deal with building refurbishment on teaching and laboratory buildings some of which are close to 40 years old (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Development Plan (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a commitment will be given that funding and development for the WIT campus at Waterford will proceed regardless of other developmental issues that may arise in the other campus areas of Carlow and Wexford with respect to the revised National Development Plan which stipulates expansion of the WIT campus area; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Consumer Rights Bill 2021: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Chairman and the Department officials this morning. I will ask some questions which will touch on a couple of areas. First, I ask about phone scam marketing and I am thinking particularly of those who target children on ready-to-go mobiles. I have had family experience of this where my daughter clicked on a promotion and basically ended signing up to a subscription service that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Consumer Rights Bill 2021: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: My other two questions are as follows. Where our witnesses mentioned that member states have the ability to recommend further enforcement of sanctions, has the Department itself made recommendations in this respect? On the provisions of the Bill, are the officials present aware of or supporting any discussions with the Department of Justice in respect to resourcing the Garda National...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Consumer Rights Bill 2021: Discussion (13 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: That has been helpful. I thank Ms McNamara.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Like one of the previous speakers, I, too, wonder whether we have reached a tipping point in the context of the price of cigarettes. Yesterday, I was in a queue in a shop behind a lady who I could tell was suffering social disadvantage. I saw her trying to buy a couple of small sweets for her child. She then paid out €14.50 for a box of cigarettes. What struck me was that I knew...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: This budget has been eagerly awaited to help us chart our way out of Covid, position the economy for the future, ensure we transition to a zero-carbon economy over coming decades and we bring the whole population with us. To that point, the €17.5 billion provided in Covid supports has been most welcome. Employment is expected to grow by 275,000 jobs in 2022, with an unemployment rate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the process which describes the testing and analysis of concrete block and poured concrete cement mix in Ireland today; the regulation standards such products are required to meet; the independent analysis and testing that is mandated by his Department; the way in which results are monitored and collated; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 658. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of whole-time equivalent persons assigned to wildlife management within the district veterinary office in Waterford tasked to manage all aspects of the TB eradication scheme, in particular the management of wild badger numbers; the changes plus or minus within that recruitment resource number over the past five years;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 659. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the veterinary resources that are made available by his Department to the managing of the TB eradication scheme which manages badger monitoring, vaccination and culling operations to inhibit the spread of the disease; if these are resourced personnel Department employees or in the service outsourced; the level of badger culling...

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: My constituency office is also across from the courthouse in Waterford and I reiterate exactly what Deputy Fitzpatrick has said about that. It is terrible to see the number of young people involved in the courts. It is a fact that people in our general community feel vulnerable and unsafe at times, particularly when they are outside their homes. However, it is a fact that people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests for attending. There has been a lot of talk and I will not rehash what other people have said. There are a lot of positives with this, but it is a question of how many business sectors it can be applied to. It will not work for every business. We have highlighted some businesses that have to trade. Manufacturing companies cannot afford to stop a day's manufacturing,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: That is helpful. For businesses that are pivoting, is it the case that a business might give all its staff a three-day weekend that will start on a Friday and, therefore, the business is not open on a Friday, or will do the same on a Monday and, therefore, the business is not open on a Monday? Will it propose, potentially, splitting staff between some being off on Friday and some being off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I would like to associate myself with the comments of Deputy Stanton regarding the quality of the debate. It is a very important conversation. I am struggling a little with the issue of the measurement of productivity. Businesses' key performance indicators and how they are used will vary, such as a call centre or coffee shop compared with a design house or a company in the construction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: How will the expansion of productivity impact on the quality of output? If people are being pushed to do, say, 20% more in their every working day, there must be some add-on effect to the quality of the output or of the gizmo being produced? Does Ms Cox have any thoughts about how that is to be monitored going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. That was very informative.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Covid-19 has challenged the country, our society and our economy like never before. With this disease, the country has travelled on a roller coaster journey. It has been a journey of high consequent mortality in the elderly, a hospital intensive care crisis that has tested staff to the limit, deferral of significant other health procedures and activity and lockdown of our population to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Personal Injuries Commission (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 80. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the substance of the initiatives in relation to the Action Plan on Insurance Reform (details supplied); the number of doctors that have completed the clinical education referenced to date; if that education is now standardised training at CPD level and specified in the personal commission reports from which this...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the additional commercial concerns that can compete in the farm plastics recycling market place and receive access to the levy contributions as would be required in terms of open competition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (5 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the initiatives his Department is taking in terms of improving the recycling rates of farm plastics (details supplied); the access to levy payments that has been offered to private contractors to provide alternative collection opportunities on and off-farm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48406/21]