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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (25 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update as to when a school (details supplied) will be included in the new programme of national school meals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18644/24]

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: How will the Government control ISPs that are outside the EU?

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I note the Minister of State's frustration and I acknowledge that the Bill is on Report Stage, but I think he has conflated some of the issues and it is only right that he should reflect on them and maybe look to change them. A serious problem has been highlighted to him. As for problem gambling, as others and I have spoken about, fundraising for clubs is not where that is occurring. That...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: We are into the realm of unintended consequences here, as other speakers have pointed out. In my own GAA club in Waterford we held a fundraiser last year. Tickets were €100 and the prize was a house in Dungarvan. The draw raised €600,000 and that money is going exclusively into underage sports development. I can guarantee that the people who were buying the €100...

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

Matt Shanahan: I concur with the Ceann Comhairle’s remarks regarding Deputy Paul Murphy's contribution. I am not sure where in the country - never mind what part of the planet - what the Deputy had to say related to. Farming is heading fast to a crossroads and that intersection includes farm unviability, farm loss, future consolidated factory farming and economic loss to regional and rural...

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,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms Mitchell, Ms Jamet and Ms O'Connell for being here. I had some engagement with Guaranteed Irish a number of years ago about pushing the agenda that Ms O'Connell is describing now, which is very important. In terms of the submission, I recognise the high water mark reached by the organisation with its 2,000 members, involving approximately 120,000 people. I also acknowledge the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Could Ms O'Connell elaborate on that please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I think the sustainability piece will become the major differentiator as we go forward, not alone on climate but the provenance and organic nature, or otherwise, of what is coming in in the food space but also civil rights, for want of a better phrase, in the context of production. I do not know if Ms O'Connell saw - it has been out on the Internet for a while - the Ricky Gervais post...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: This is an issue that we in Ireland can probably speak to very well, particularly in the food sector. I do not think we are doing enough to support the idea of provenance. As Ms O'Connell rightly pointed out, the inputs of a lot of products made here are not made in Ireland or do not come from here. How would Guaranteed Irish provide licence for that input, particularly when it is coming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: When Ms O'Connell and I engaged, we both came up against the hard block that Guaranteed Irish is possibly perceived as a highly sectoral organisation for sectoral interests. If the broad church Ms O'Connell is speaking to now is not recognised in Government, I think that is a failure on the Government's side. As she rightly pointed out, the recognition of Guaranteed Irish is going to become...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I would like to understand this in terms of the marketing activity the witnesses spoke about and some of its firms being awarded marketing promotion on that. It seems to me there are two driving objectives - one is to recruit new partners to receive the Guaranteed Irish brand and the second is to create awareness of the brand to try to pull people in. Will the witnesses speak about that?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: There is so much noise out there if an organisation has a brand presence, it is far easier to scale it than to start it now at this point in time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I do not know if Ms Mitchell has considered it, but maybe she could do something generic to all 2,000 companies, asking them to push it out for one week of promotion of Guaranteed Irish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: It is a brave new world. Unfortunately, we all have to operate in the virtual world now. That is the way it is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I hope in the future, when the Tánaiste comes in and starts quoting statistics, that he will refer to money rather than percentages. I remind him that University Hospital Waterford, which has one of the largest patient catchments in the country, has the lowest funding and lowest numbers of staff and beds of all model 4 hospitals in the country. It is a case of taking a hospital that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The seven-day service is not there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Staff numbers are still among the lowest in the country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: It is the lowest resourced model 4 hospital.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Correct.