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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (29 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the main sectors of analysis his Department is applying to the present Waterford airport runway extension review; the number of similar reviews using the same analysis template that have taken place in his Department over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24242/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (23 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...are accessing ICOB? What consideration has been given to those businesses that are not paying rates because their rates are bundled up with their rent, specifically those whose landlords cannot apply either, which means they cannot access to the scheme? How are those businesses to be supported? Has the Government looked at other businesses that are very exposed because they are in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...considered for IPAS accommodation, he will outline what the minimum number of refugee spaces his Department will consider for contract accommodation; the specific considerations his Department is applying when reviewing such property offers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21266/24]

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...lead to what is a plant-based food system becoming totally uneconomic and unsustainable. The Government recently introduced measures that it said are helpful but these are merely sticking plasters being applied to a seriously sick sector. The tillage sector in Ireland is very kind to the environment, with low carbon dioxide emissions, and it should be viewed as being a vital national...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I am sharing time with Deputy Naughten, who will be along shortly. It is often said that you can judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable. That observation can also be applied to how a state treats those who provide care to its most vulnerable. One could say that we know the cost of everything and the value of very little. In her opening remarks, the Minister of State,...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ..., and the Islands, and he will speak for 20 minutes later. He has a lot more detail than I have. Automatic enrolment seeks to address the present position of a pension coverage gap and will apply to all employees who meet an age criterion and certain other criteria but are not already a part of an occupational pension plan. It is proposed that contributions made by employees from their...

EU Talent Pool: Motion (28 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...of State that our housing shortage is a significant impediment to bringing the skills we need into the country and also being able to offer people a pathway into housing and homeownership. That applies to our own people, some of whom are migrating because they feel they will not be able to get on the property ladder. While we are full employment, recent CSO data for the south-east region...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ..., this initiative means that families could avail of an additional weekly rental income of €269 per week without any effect on their non-contributory state pension. It also means the benefits applying to a spouse or adult dependent of a contributory pensioner were not affected. However rental income was being considered in a means test for those on means-tested welfare payments...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...a south-eastern development commission could not be established. The same is being done in other regions in order to try to provide cohesive, strategic policy analysis and access to high-level governmental applied research, reviewing and lobbying. The other point I have made - and I will make it again - is that we need an SME development agency. We have one for exporters, one for...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Digital Services Bill 2023: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: In terms of the scope of it, the Minister of State might also bring in the likes of the development commissions that do applied research themselves. I am not sure how much statutory support they get for that. If the Minister of State is widening the discussion, it should include those commissions as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...south-east economic monitor each year, a biannual cross-sectoral report card into the performance of the south-east's economy. Each of the attendees is well aware of the needs and difficulties that apply when trying to examine the issue of equitable capital funding across the country. This Bill provides that each Minister shall annually provide a written report to both Houses of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...;s question, I might turn to some of those with me, as they are the ones involved in compiling reports and working at the coalface to grapple with this problem. The two areas where the capital tracker applies are not conducive to seeing lower levels of spending. They are only-----

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...with further possible movements to an extensive ceasefire now appear dashed. My colleagues and I continue to support the position of the Government to work with our European partners in trying to apply pressure for a sustainable humanitarian ceasefire. In addition, diplomatic efforts must be made to build pressure for intermediary-supported peace talks that put the two-state solution...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...told him that we were not getting a fair share in the south east region. He said two things that I thought were important. He said that nobody is entitled to any money, as such, in this State; it is all based on projects. That speaks to those State resources that are applied to project development. There are some local councils and Departments in this country that are good at having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Supports Required for Businesses to Meet Decarbonisation Targets: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ..., at about maybe €60,000 or €70,000. When it is done through the retrofitting programme, it is coming out at approximately €120,000. Unfortunately, it seems to be that for people who are applying to the programme, the cost that the State is being charged in terms of grants is way higher than would be charged if the work was being done as a private arrangement with a...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...faster into the extensive waiting lists around the country and not spend a lot more money. I will also speak about the problems of unstructured downsizing, which is where you take one metric and apply it to all hospitals, in particular in the acute hospital space. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, will remember that around 2012, the Government created a cost-cutting measure in all...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: The bust following the Celtic tiger era should have taught many of us the importance of budgeting and living within our means. This applies also to the management of our national finances. I said on budget day that I felt I needed to stand up and question the wisdom of breaking the fiscal rules in developing budget 2024, not least when the level of pre-windfall corporation tax means that in...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ..., is a clear example that you cannot win hearts and minds with war; only peace delivers that. As a respected member of the international community, Ireland must use all of its diplomatic powers to apply pressure for an immediate cessation of Israeli military actions, including the planned ground invasion. Regional Arab countries must ensure that rocket fire from Hamas and Hezbollah also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...East Technological University, SETU, Waterford, where we have two of the leading scientific gateways, the pharmaceutical and molecular biotechnology research centre, PMBRC, and the south eastern applied materials research centre, SEAM, which are world-class as regards innovation and the amount of grant aid they are winning at European level for programmes. That would be a good place to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 740, 744, 748, 754, 760, 772, 773, 776 and 778 of 20 September 2023, the reason that the farmer definition, as defined by his Department, only applies to the afforestation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42149/23]