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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I also welcome the legislation. Anything that provides additional worker protection and regulation is to be welcomed. As we are discussing the fishing sector, I would like to point out to the Minister of State that Dunmore East is not included as a harbour where catches can be landed under the Brexit regulations. This means that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister of State.

Covid Restrictions Support Scheme Regulations and Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme Regulations: Motions (22 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I join with other Deputies welcome the extension of CRSS and EWSS. We also need to acknowledge Revenue's forbearance on debt warehousing. We must also acknowledge that, as we open up the economy, many small to medium-sized enterprises will open with significant debt attached to their businesses. With regard to the EWSS, we know there needs to be a 30% reduction in turnover or unit orders...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I referred to Denmark's and Hungary's e-health systems rather than their mortality rates. The Tánaiste referenced PPS numbers. We have up to 20% more PPS numbers than population, which behoves us to come up with a new identifier number to manage our systems. As the Tánaiste is well aware, there have been issues for years in terms of hospital inpatient data, the hospital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: Unlike the Tánaiste, I am not medically qualified although I spent a number of years in the healthcare area working around medical devices and medicines. I am not an expert so I talk to experts to try to inform myself of what is happening on the ground. When I say experts, I mean those who are at the front line of medicine, working with cutting edge medicines and dealing with Covid...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: The Bill proposed by the Government seeks to chart Ireland's transition to climate neutrality by 2050. It will provide for future five-yearly carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings and shape and frame the future economic and social prosperity of our country. Global warming is now an accepted reality. All countries have a part to play in addressing climate change. Some...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 558. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of scheme pension entitlements for community employment supervisors; the position regarding same; the timeline for a decision to resolve this longstanding issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19587/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of each project, description and funding he identified as having being already allocated a variety of projects in the south east as part of the technological university in his Dáil Éireann statement on 10 March 2021 (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19231/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a detailed schedule with respect to the €966 million provided in capital funding across the higher education sector in each of the years 2008 to 2019, in tabular form; the institution, location, description or purpose and quantum of funding provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19232/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of each institution, building name, size and funding requested under the Higher Education Strategic Infrastructure Fund programme call issued in December 2018 and announced in August 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19233/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the PPP proposal to construct a new engineering building on the grounds of Waterford Institute of Technology; the new target date for the sign-off on build contract given the scheduled date of 31 March 2021 for tender award has passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19963/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1565. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can respond to a query (details supplied) regarding resourcing of maxillofacial surgery procedure presently suspended at University Hospital Waterford; when a surgery date for this person will be confirmed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18276/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 1753. To ask the Minister for Health if death rates in the elderly have coincided with vaccination; if his Department is reviewing corollary data between vaccination and deaths occurring; the way data on deaths is compiled and any lag times pertaining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18894/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 2018. To ask the Minister for Health when the status of expectant mothers' partners will be changed to allow them attend maternity screenings, classes and births; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19588/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 2192. To ask the Minister for Health the expedited vaccine pathway that can be provided for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20090/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: 2532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support the implementation of a new BEAM scheme (details supplied) given predicted oversupply of beef product in the meat sector here due to international factors relating to Covid-19 restrictions and increased output in the dairy sector here as pursued by Teagasc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19966/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (20 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. I have a couple questions for Mr. Hughes. He said loan terms under the Brexit impact loan scheme are a minimum of three years extending to six years and that loans can be refinanced. What happens when borrowers reach the end of the six-year period? Do they have any guarantees with respect to the rate of interest at which they might refinance? Is it a market rate or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (20 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I wish to raise a further issue. Mr. Hughes spoke about primary producers. He is probably aware of the issues in milk production at present with regard to Glanbia. The latter had entered an agreement to build a cheese factory which was going to have a sizable uptake in milk capacity. It is held up now by a judicial review being progressed by An Taisce. The result is that Glanbia farmers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (20 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: I have been communicating with Mr. Hughes for some time regarding certain sectors excluded from the CRSS and SBASC because they do not have rateable premises. I was specifically referring to people in the fairground, amusement, leisure, circus and catering areas. Mr. Hughes said that other ways of trying to provide support to these sectors were being explored. Have there been developments...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (20 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: To return to the issue of fairground and amusement park businesses, a number of them are not connected with a rateable premises because their equipment is generally kept in container lorries when they tour the country. They spend a large proportion of the year travelling to different towns, so many of them are not tied to a rateable premises. I think some of them have written to the...