Results 1-11 of 11 for kerry speaker:Matt Shanahan

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...who were previously able to visit relatives as they were very close are no longer able to do that and they have ended up having to do a circuitous round trip that could be ten or 20 miles. In Kerry, the distances involved could be 30 miles or 40 miles, or perhaps more depending on where a bed becomes available. In the round, anybody would obviously support the positive developments in...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...SENO. I note there are 25 special classes in mainstream schools for children with multiple disabilities throughout the country. There are two in Clare, five in Cork, two in Donegal, four in Galway, eight in Kerry, one in Louth and three in Mayo. Not one has been sanctioned for County Roscommon. [Indeed, not one has been sanctioned for my own county of Waterford. Regarding Roscommon,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...development onshore? In the south east, we have one of the most significant gateways to composite developments in the form of turbine manufacture. Mr. Cunniffe referred to a course starting in Kerry, but we need very significant academic linkage and his organisation mentioned it was hoping to engage with higher education. We are at an early stage, but I would like to see a sectoral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: .... I request that it be given to Waterford Airport in the form of grant moneys and that the airport will be able to spend it as it wants, as was the case with national aviation funding that was paid directly to Kerry Airport last year in the form of subvention funding. Otherwise, we will be caught up in a plethora of public procurement issues and difficulties. The cost of building the...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...was afoot here was the putting down of a marker that the Department wants the flexibility to close Waterford Airport. It was interesting listening to Deputy Michael Healy-Rae ask for support for Kerry Airport. In the past year, as the Taoiseach knows, the Government has withdrawn €350,000 in stopgap funding and excluded Waterford Airport from aviation supports totalling...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...many friends there. The R117 service is a service that was recently distinguished by its being awarded bravery honours by the Ceann Comhairle for the rescue of seven crew members from a ship that was sinking off the Kerry coast in March 2021. Dara would have revelled in the fact that the rescue mission was assisted by the only female winchman in the national service, Ms Sarah Courtney. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...-19 patients, while deferring vaccination to front-line staff in the second largest acute hospital in the group, University Hospital Waterford, in addition to acute settings in University Hospital Kerry and South Tipperary General Hospital, all with Covid-19 cases; the transparent equitable analysis the hospital group will be offering in a real time and ongoing basis to demonstrate fair...

Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...a problem with hospital groups, and I have said this before. We have money being channelled into one central position. The money is supposed to be given from that on an equitable basis, but all we need do is look at where University Hospital Kerry in Tralee is at the moment or where University Hospital Waterford has been in their efforts at trying to get funding from the centre. As I...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Matt Shanahan: I support the comments of Deputy Daly regarding University Hospital Kerry, a facility I know well. It suffers from significant deficits. These are largely attributable to the inadequacies of the South/Southwest Hospital Group administration, to which University Hospital Waterford is also connected, unfortunately. The proposed legislation signals our arrival at a difficult juncture. The...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...previously. I would again put on the record of the House that the previous capital tracker from 2018 to 2022 of large capital infrastructure projects in the State saw the south east get €97 million, Cork-Kerry get €902 million and Dublin get €5 billion - a per capita share 15 times greater than that of the south east. Such disparity in funding on capital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...its 8.89% per capita pro rata share? I remind the Taoiseach of the last capital tracking index from 2018 to 2022 of large-scale capital enterprise. In that, the south east got €97 million. Cork and Kerry got €902 million and Dublin got €5 billion, a rate which is 15 times more per capita. The major road projects announced yesterday are, I am sure, welcome to...