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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...finished before the complex can be signed off and handed over. That is creating a huge strain, with the result that builders are deciding to leave these high-density developments. We have zoned lands in Waterford and a number of strategic housing developments have been approved but nothing has started. That is part of the problem. We also have a significant issue with planning...

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

Matt Shanahan: .... My county of Waterford has a mix of farming. All parts of the sector there are under extreme pressure. This pressure is most evident in the tillage sector. Months of rainfall have saturated the land, preventing the sowing and harvesting of winter crops. While the recent €100 support announced for tillage farmers was welcome, we are now into a reduced growing season and it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...Government has been sitting on. There has been no capital investment at all on the site other than the purchase of the €4 million brownfield site, even though we have 30 other acres of development land, and have had for the past ten years. Therefore, I suggest there is a significant problem in respect of the south east in terms of development and the developing SETU. I ask Mr....

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

Matt Shanahan: ...most of them it is not, and it is nearly dying out. There are a couple of areas I would like to touch on. One is restoring eel fishing in the Waterford Estuary. I know it had opened in Scotland. I am not sure what the Department's situation is. Maybe the Minister will come back to me in writing on that and see whether there is licensing available for that. It used to happen and I...

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

Matt Shanahan: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planners recruited by the Land Development Agency from An Bord Pleanála; if he acknowledges that recruiting staff from the already overstretched An Bord Pleanála only undermines further the Government's planning strategy and exacerbates current waiting times; if there are any plans to outsource...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...second cath lab and that the emergency services should be taken out of Waterford. I can extend that to our technological university. We have had no capital investment there whatsoever, beyond a land purchase and, as I pointed out to the Taoiseach, no funding to build a building. The engineering building is nowhere to be seen. I could see on television during the week three senior...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...and road development, its generation of foreign and direct investment generation and, most egregiously and especially, its higher education sector. In the context of the South East Technological University, the Government has slow-walked a land purchase while providing no capital to carry out design work and nothing to fund construction of a new teaching building on this land site. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...private farms are not looking at it with all of the other issues that have been going on with forestry for the past while. The problem we now have with the nitrates derogation is that the cost of land has been pushed up. It will not work for forestry. That is why I believe we need a dedicated agency. I know that our witnesses cannot say that and I do not know if they can support it but...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Strategically, the land of Palestine has had a tumultuous history. It is the recognised birthplace for both Judaism and Christianity but in the past 1,000 years it has been home to Christians, Jews, Romans and a multitude of warring tribes. It was ruled by the Ottomans for 402 years until 1918 and in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the partition of Palestine...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...should conduct their lives. It is a dangerous business to tell people how to live, settle and raise their families, yet planners look down their noses at the dominant vernacular settlement pattern of this land. Planners and urbanites are derisory of and confounded by the townland formation idealised in Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innisfree", turned into a modernist manual in Jack...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: Agriculture has been the backbone of the Irish economy for many decades now and it continues to be the largest economic sector in rural and regional Ireland. Ireland is a world leader in beef and dairy production. If we take 2019 as a reference year, our total agrifood exports were valued at €14.5 billion. Of that impressive number, dairy accounted for €5 billion and beef...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (22 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...some of the activity that is going on. Dublin is creaking at the seams, there is no doubt, not alone Dublin Port. There is a massive opportunity for housing and office development on the port lands, as has been mentioned many times. There does not seem to be a will in terms of policy to really look at the outside ports, particularly Rosslare Europort and Waterford Port. The strategic...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...equitable distribution of responsibility across all countries must also be recognised. In our case, it is across our EU community. The latest census shows that there are 5.1 million people in Ireland. At this number, we are not even equivalent to a big city in Europe. Per capitacarbon measurements for Ireland are suggested to be higher than for European neighbours, some of which can be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (16 May 2023)

Matt Shanahan: 743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where the legal ownership status of the designated SETU land purchase of 20.3 acres of the old Waterford crystal site stand; the present legal status regarding the ownership of this site; if due diligence is still ongoing; the possible delays that could be preventing the transfer of the site, given it was originally highlighted for sale in...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...who we were and who we are and maybe who we will be in the future they point to the ambitions that have been arrived at in this country over nearly 2,000 years. They are very important to the idea of Ireland in the future in terms of tourism and the economic perspective also. We have a unique offering that is unlike anything else in the western world, in the sense of having a history...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...being said we have a regulatory, planning and cost environment that is adding to our construction woes. In the Sunday Independenttwo weeks ago an article referred to a site in Balbriggan where landowners proposed a scheme of 600 houses to be developed. This scheme has been proposed for more than eight years. The land bank is required to undergo a local area plan review by Fingal County...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...raised climate calculators here before. The EU has a climate calculator that we are all working to. Others dispute how it is measured. There is also carbon sequestration, particularly in our woodlands and hedgerows. When will we get a landscape that measures the sequestration that we are doing in Ireland, that is, our hedgerows, pasture lands and woodlands? How is that taken into...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...the processes, milestones and timelines for releasing ring-fenced funding in his Department in respect of the compulsory purchase order being contemplated by Wexford Council for the acquisition of lands for a higher education campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12722/23]

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Matt Shanahan: I am happy to take part in this important debate about the future of forestry in Ireland and to examine the rationale of the Government's current policy. Ecology and biology have long been used in the lexicon of forestry language and we can now add a new word, “codology”, because that is the best description of the recent activity announced by Coillte, a State-supported company...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...to the minerals that are produced in electric cars and the ethics around the harvesting of the likes of lithium and cobalt, particularly in countries where child labour is being used. Has Ireland taken any steps to try to understand those considerations? The local authority in Waterford has announced a plan to provide an additional 12 on-street charging points in the city in the...