Results 41-60 of 109 for cork speaker:Matt Shanahan

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training (19 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...to compete for the additional higher education capacity that will be provided by the State in the coming years. In other words, get stuffed. The university cities of Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Cork and Sligo, which includes the University of Galway, will all be looked after. Technological universities will never have teacher training. This is an artificial limit, as per Dr. Richard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Start-up and Scaling Environment in Ireland: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...stay well engaged and active in this regard. On the planned offshore wind development signalled to be developed off the south coast, and especially that off the coast of County Waterford and east Cork, does the ISIF have plans to intersect with some of the businesses that might have to provide services and infrastructure? Is this aspect being explored? Does it have any plans in respect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...coming to an end. We surveyed the wreckage of the then Government's disastrous hospital groups strategy, which had led to the chaotic asset-stripping of our regional hospital system by a parochial Cork. That left us with what is still the worst funded model 4 hospital in the country: an outlier with the lowest ratio of staff and beds to citizens and patients of any model 4 hospital. For...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (21 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 1005. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department carries out any economic or value for money evaluation in respect of the annual €1 million bill for the two Cork PPP projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12717/23]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...and hospital, which is similar to Waterford. It aligns with the experience of Waterford, which has suffered because of political strategies, the interests of Dublin and the temporary government in Cork, which has denied resourcing to Waterford, the south east and the wider region. Why should Derry should consider that its place would be any better in a shared island initiative as it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ..., the IDA is probably selling off some of its assets. I am not quite sure what will end up happening in the older park. The IDA may have sold off some of its factories or complexes in the old Cork Road section. I would like to see some of those retained rather than going into private ownership because I think they will have a part to play in future enterprise development. My second...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is half time for this Government. I once asked the Taoiseach, perhaps unkindly, whether he is a Cork Taoiseach or a Taoiseach who happens to be from Cork. That remains an open question. Under his tenure, I have watched Cork flourish, finally putting to bed the sad days of Ford and Dunlop. I know this was an era from which the Taoiseach's political philosophy was hewn and from which he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...construction work, the capacity for borrowing was taken away from WIT. This is a capacity that has enabled the building of accommodation in every other university in Ireland, including in Galway, Cork, Limerick and Dublin. Irish universities have more than €1 billion of debt at this time, much of it to the European Investment Bank, EIB. Little of it relates to funding...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...900 million within the Government's capital tracker? We cannot see it. The dashboard is useless in terms of showing where money is being spent. In the lifetime of this Dáil, the university sector in Cork has received €300 million but we in the south east have received nothing. I ask the Minister to commit to a new reporting standard and a new dashboard in terms of capital...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...Deputy McHugh moved forward the public private partnership, PPP, for the Munster Technological University MTU. I have seen two buildings now delivered at €106 million each to University College Cork, UCC, and another €56 million given to the MTU in Cork and nothing done in the south east at this time. The Minister has no problem committing dozens of millions of euro to...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...special conservation. I have a concern about Ireland's policy on wind generation off the south coast, though. There are three separate wind farms proposed for off the south coast of Waterford and east Cork. Later this week, a briefing will be given in the AV room by the ESB. The ESB tells us that it will have wind pylons 12 km from shore, which is approximately 7 miles. Those pylons...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...in the south east are being delayed by up to 11 hours in the context of having cardiac interventions done. Last Wednesday, another patient, a 48-year-old mother of two, was rushed at midnight down to Cork hospital. She was chased by her husband in the car behind, who was wondering if she was going to survive. Her stenting operating took five and a half hours to complete, which is three...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...and they get virtually no capital projects. As we vote on the capital elements of this budget, I reiterate that we will not see where the money goes. I can tell the Minister of State that it mainly goes to Dublin and Cork. I see this acutely and continually in Waterford and in the south-east, where our university, our hospital, our infrastructure and our economic development agencies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: .... To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the expenditure with respect to each year of operation of each of the ongoing public-private partnership projects at the Cork Institute of Technology, now Munster Technological University, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45514/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (20 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the capital expenditure by Cork Institute of Technology, now Munster Technological University, since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45515/22]

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...that he shares my view that the data in the summer economic statement is inadequate to allow Dáil oversight. When I put it to him that this was to give Cabinet members a free hand to support their own pet projects, largely in Cork and Dublin, the home constituencies of almost all senior Ministers, he could not refute my point using any data. In the summer economic statement we get...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...of the busiest trauma units in the country; and the fact that we have one of the busiest orthopaedic services in the country. Yet again, there was another steered report to send services up the road to Cork and take them out of Waterford. A couple of days ago, the Tánaiste made a reference in the national media to difficulties in recruitment to the cath lab in University Hospital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...in the southeast. It is these regions that have turned their backs on the traditional parties of Government. My personal analysis suggests that the bulk of discretionary spending is being funnelled into Dublin and Cork, which are homes to almost all of our Ministers. Do not tell me that I am wrong, or name check for me some projects that are happening in my neck of the woods. Show me...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...the child disability network team and the local 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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...é go raibh a anam. Where is the 24-7 cardiac service the Taoiseach promised the south east? The Taoiseach extols his Government's capital spending programme and the hundreds of millions spent in Cork delivering a new airport runway, two new €100 million teaching blocks for University College Cork, UCC, the new convention centre and the Dunkettle interchange. Contrast this...