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

Matt Shanahan: ...in Dublin. We can all agree that as a modern, cosmopolitan city, Dublin should have a MetroLink to the airport. The shocking scandal of a project 23 years in development, on which €300 million has been spent at this stage - a large amount of it wasted - should not be lost on anybody. While all that money was being contributed and circulated, was anybody aware of how it was being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1006. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the arrangements with respect to the €5 million in emergency funding provided to IT Tralee in 2019/2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12718/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements with respect to the €5 million in emergency funding provided to IT Tralee in 2019/2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45504/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...to his data. What I can find shows national IDA Ireland jobs growth of 6% but lacklustre growth in the south-east region of just 1.6%. Despite having 9% of the population, the south east has just 5% of IDA Ireland jobs and a mere 4.5% of IDA Ireland-supported companies in the region. That amounts to over 9,500 missing jobs. This deficit has more than doubled in the past decade,...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...was opportune, given what happened at Dublin Airport over the past weekend. As she is probably aware, a media probe in recent days reported that it seems private investment of approximately €8 million has been secured for Waterford Airport. Local authority funding of €2 million is additional to the Government's previous commitment to provide €5 million for the...

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...the previous programme for Government, but it was walked away from because of prevailing politics at the time. The airport's catchment mirrors that of University Hospital Waterford, with more than 530,000 people living in the area. There is a population of 1.5 million, which is growing, within 90 minutes' travel time of Waterford Airport. On 28 April, I also raised with the Minister the...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...cars by fleeing suspects has become all too prevalent. Gardaí are often called to many domestic abuse situations, which can tragically escalate out of control. This was seen with the death of the garda Tony Golden in 2015 and similarly with the death of Adrian Donohoe at the Lordship credit union, when he had been protecting cash that was in transit. These, as we all know, were...

Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Dec 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...In aggregate, the Estimates amount to €73.1 billion. The comparable amount in the Appropriation Act 2020 was €69.7 billion. Therefore, we must appropriate this year €3.4 billion, or just under 5% of last year's net voted expenditure. As the Minister has outlined, this represents a substantial support to households, businesses and public services. Indeed, it...

Regional Airports and Aviation: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...sector, along with a huge number of ancillary service providers who themselves offer significant employment. The sector, pre-Covid, was worth €4.1 billion to the Irish economy. In 2019, 38.1 million passengers passed through the airports. The changing threats that Covid has presented have reduced passenger air traffic in and out of Ireland to a trickle, with a resultant dramatic...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...a mind-boggling figure when one thinks of the past number of years when the State was trying to close the budget deficit gap from a couple of billion euro down to €1 billion or so and then down to €500 million. Before Covid came along, we were running a very tight ship. All of a sudden, in the year that is just ending and in the year to come, we are, and will be, borrowing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ..., CT, scans; mammograms; endoscopies; ear nose and throat, ENT, treatment; orthopaedics; and ophthalmology. When we ask the HSE for progress, it delivers us process. I mention the mortuary build of 2015, which the Tánaiste is well aware of. It has taken four calendar years to award a build tender of €5 million for a second cath lab. It is six years into the South/South West...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Budget 2021 Support Measures for Enterprise: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (21 Oct 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...'s submission is welcome, as is the funding mentioned within, but there is an obvious bias towards larger businesses in Ireland and foreign direct investment. A simple case in point is the €5 million provided for microfinance. This is totally inadequate for the needs of small business. It is not an easy process for businesses to go through. The smaller businesses within the SME...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...announced yesterday. I would agree it is a wartime budget. On that basis, we have to do exceptional things. In terms of some of the exceptional provisions of the budget, I welcome the €900 million commitment to local authority rates. That will be a big help to local authorities in the coming year. It certainly helped those who have had the rates waiver. It will help to...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...the south east get 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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...had a specification and a build tender capable on this project since January of this year and we are now expected to wait another four months while we approve an approval for a total spend of €6 million, while every week we are deferring diagnostic angiograms and risking patients up and down the roads. It is unacceptable and I ask the Taoiseach to look at it. Will the Taoiseach...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...broader economic environment. The findings were stark. Almost half of firms made lockdown losses. Some two fifths of micro-firms and half of medium-sized firms face revenue shortfalls. Only 58% of hotels and restaurants were reported to be in profit. The total shortfall for the SME sector during the pandemic is estimated at between €6 billion and €10 billion. Firms...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...I want to address the history of the guarantee scheme which is not too rosy. The previous one was initiated in 2012 with more than €1.2 billion made available over an eight-year period. Only €152 million of it, 13%, was drawn down in the eight years. If the same drawdown was to occur with this scheme, it would represent an injection of €260 million. SMEs have been...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (7 Jul 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...of microfinance loans to the SME sector in particular, is welcome. In essence, the July stimulus package will signal whether the Government has fully understood the challenges faced by over 1 million workers in the State and the companies that employ them. As a member of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response, I have sat through several sessions dealing with the Government's...

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