Results 1-20 of 109 for cork speaker:Matt Shanahan

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

Matt Shanahan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. Similar to previous Fianna Fáil Cork leader, senior hurling politics is a game the Tánaiste plays well. First the ball, but if unsuccessful then the player. This is not about me but it is about a critical life-saving service for 600,000 people with whom the Government is playing politics. Consider for instance that having...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...the environmentalist and house buyers against immigrants. The social contract for young people is burst. Expectations for housing, good work and services have all been knocked back. The Dublin-Cork Cabinet has starved large swathes of Ireland of investment, development and economic hope for a better life. The Border, north-west and midland regions, as well as my own region of the south...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ..., is drinking in 65% of the spending on major projects. In the second iteration it was 56%. For all the talk about spending codes and business plans, when big projects hit Cabinet, it is to Dublin and Cork they go and the rest of the country can wait. All of this is before the absolutely ludicrous price tag of metro north or the finalisation of the children's hospital bill. As a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...that matter, he has let it be known that he has zero appetite for this project. The Government has invested heavily in all other regional airports, with the Tánaiste prominent in his support for Cork Airport. Unfortunately, he loses all interest in capital spending once it heads east of the Dunkettle interchange. The Taoiseach's recently stated support for the project needs to be...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: .... What I would say to the Minister about that - and when we are above in this House we do not look at this - is that is an area of tremendous importance to the coastline of Waterford and east Cork, and Wexford to be fair. I want to make particular reference to the UNESCO Copper Coast site, which has been highlighted throughout the world as one of the most scenic drives around Ireland,...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...urban areas. My own city of Waterford has something like 6 or 8 miles of orbital dual-lane road where the speed limit is now 60 km/h. Drivers can then go out onto the primary road, the N25 from Waterford to Cork, and do 100 km/h in a single lane which has not been updated or had roadworks done in 30 years. This Minister for Transport has spent buttons on it - just €4 million in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (7 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he could provide details relating to the Cork Event Centre; the estimated costs of constructing the Cork Event Centre during the project timeline; an annualised breakdown of actual direct costs or grant aid supplied in respect of this project; a timeline of the project’s advancement through the public spending...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...east region that the runway might commence this summer. It appears it needs only approval from the Minister’s Department to make it happen and begin in the coming weeks. Many of us recall a proud Cork Taoiseach cutting the cake at the opening of the Cork runway extension project in the early days of this Government, a model example of a project swiftly approved and completed....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a statement on the original projected costs and now envisaged final total cost in respect of the Cork School of Music and Cork Maritime College. [4359/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...that he seeks support for University Hospital Waterford, as do I. Since the two cath labs opened - they are operating 60 hours a week - the hospital is emulating the same service activity as the Cork centre, which has five cath labs and 168 hours scheduled. This is despite the fact the Herity report in 2015 indicated that there was no requirement for a second cath lab and that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...x20ac;83 million capital investment in the past ten years. By contrast, in the same decade, the Government awarded €227 million on average to the comparator model 4 hospitals in Galway, Limerick and Cork. A sum of €87 million versus one of €227 million is evidence of pure discrimination against the south-east region. During Leaders' Questions on 11 July last, the...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...large parts of Ireland are increasingly angry and marginalised by the parish-pump politics that is going on in the Cabinet at the moment, where the majority of spending is going between Dublin and Cork. You need to have spent a long time in the Dáil bubble to think it is a good idea to spend 50%, 60% and even 70% of all State capital investments in Dublin, where 29% of the population...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...allow a schedule to begin at Waterford Airport for spring 2025? If it is a daunting ask, I remind the Tánaiste of the speed with which the Government moved to approve the Dunkettle roundabout and the extensions at Cork and Dublin airports.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: But not for Cork or Dublin. That is the point.

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

Matt Shanahan: ...McNamara highlighted that his constituency did well while it had a sitting Minister. It is true that the preponderance of moneys being spent at the moment, more than €14 billion this year, will be allocated largely to the regions of Dublin and Cork. That reflects the political patronage enjoyed at Cabinet, which is something that also needs to change. The Minister of State also...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...the south east in this House. However, the facts are clear. The Government continues to ignore its own national planning framework along with its Ireland 2040 plan. It stuffs every game-changing project into Cork and Dublin, both now severely bloated and suffering from what can only be diagnosed as chronic economic affluenza. The 2011 promises to the south east have turned to dust....

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

Matt Shanahan: ...effort to renew and reform healthcare, but even before the pandemic it looked as though it had been dumped in favour of grandiose and, to the most delusional, trophy projects. We have pleased the Dublin and Cork health industries by pressing ahead while other regions have been visibly left to starve. Six years later, the only answer to our woeful health system is to throw money at it...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I convey my support to the people of east Cork and west Waterford who have been impacted by flooding. I thank the rescue services and council workers, particularly in Tallow, Lismore, Dungarvan and Clashmore. The Blackwater Valley will probably flood over the next couple of days. I ask that the Government give a clear signal to the local authorities that necessary funding will be provided....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 242. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed explanation of the processes, milestones and timelines that led to the recently released tender for Cork University Hospital Clinical Medical School; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45626/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 243. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed timeline of the recent tender for Cork University Hospital clinical medical school progress through the public spending code and associated processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45631/23]