Results 1-20 of 154 for long speaker:Matt Shanahan

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

Matt Shanahan: ...addiction. The idea was that cards would be blocked from accessing any gambling site, but it has not moved forward at all. That is a significant issue. It should be in this legislation. We have waited long enough for it and it is something that is being done very successfully in the UK. It can be done easily here too. The banks have agreed to do it and yet it has not progressed. I...

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: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...people out there who are saying they are finding it very hard to get access to the Department and get any opportunity to talk about what they are doing. Offshore wind has been talked about for a long time in this country. Going back decades the potential of wind energy has always been known. The question is how to commercialise it and maybe now we are getting closer to that. One of...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...across the country, weekend after weekend. The Minister of State needs to look at this issue. There are inordinate waiting lists for driving test centres. I cannot understand how it takes so long – up to a year in some cases – for people to receive a test. In terms of the testing itself, I am not sure that what we are testing is requisite for modern driving standards....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...in County Offaly. I made the point that a number of companies have tried to engage with the Department to bring in modular homes, but the standards approval process for their products is taking so long that they have just decided to look elsewhere. One company in particular, which is very large, spent a bit of time here scoping out the Irish market, but it has decided to cut and run.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if he could confirm in tabular form per hospital how many temporary consultants in model 4 hospitals are currently "pending compliance clearance"; how long this process usually takes to complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4374/24]

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

Matt Shanahan: ...dieback programme, I share Mr. Gorman's disappointment that it has not come to fruition at yet. I understand the Minister is to bring forward recommendations. The committee needs to push that along. I am sure it is doing all that is possible. As Mr. Gorman said, if farmers cannot get recompensed, they are not going to go back into the programme. I would certainly support the...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...know the numbers. We were supposed to be doing 18,000 ha and it is down to 8,000 ha and we are probably doing 2,500 ha or 4,000 ha - I do not know what the figure is at present - but it is a long way short of the aspirational target. We are going to miss that by a country mile. The only thing I would say to our witnesses is that what Senator Daly was saying is interesting and I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...and tendering. Those are the two main areas in which they felt there was sensitivity. I think the Deputy is right that if the Bill is enacted in a future Dáil, of course somebody can come along and look to tighten it up. I would hope, and I think we all would, that the Government of the day would seek to do that. The commercial realities that have been identified around the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Bill will grant all assets and all assets realised, so it will capture anything in local government above €500,000 as long as the heading relates to assets.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...that this project cost has moved over €50 million from the last Programme for Government and over €20 million in the lifetime of this Government’s programme, he will outline how the delay process to funding this long-awaited capital programme demonstrates the decision delay has proven ‘beneficial in value’ to the State capital programme; and if he will...

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...minded, biologically, to notice negative things in our environment than positive. It is probably part of our fight-or-flight or survival instinct. This has been known by the media companies for quite a long time and it is the reason that when a person puts up negative content and positive content, the negative content is generally shared ten times more often than the positive content....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...time, we are not looking at the effect of what is happening in the economic sense to the retailers' business in terms of justice, policing, etc. The days of Lugs Branigan, unfortunately, are long over. I had a conversation with the governor of Mountjoy some years ago and he told me, if one drove through Dublin city at that time, he could point out 15 families where 50% of the crime was...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Second Stage (12 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...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 resides. I am not sure if the Minister...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...collective punishment of the Palestinian people in an effort to destroy Hamas and its war machine is also inhumane and horrific. The end certainly does not justify the means. For too long, the sands of the Middle East have soaked up the blood of innocents because of political and religious ideologies that choose to see people not of one tribe as having no right to exist in another....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...has built up expectations that South East Technological University, SETU, will meet the south-east region's need for a university by adding capacity and new programmes to halt the region's long-standing brain drain. The last three programmes for Government in 2011, 2016 and 2020 specifically prioritised the development of higher education in the south east. It is more than surprising,...

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

Matt Shanahan: ..., and the projects were approved, that the Department came back and said paperwork had not been submitted in time to be allocated money. To me, that is totally unethical and lacks transparency. That is a simple example of what this Bill seeks to push back against. We can talk long, hard and fast in this State and Parliament-----

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

Matt Shanahan: ...voted expenditure goes and on what, even five years after capital funds were approved and spent with all the appropriate protections and caveats, will make us a better, even if only slightly better, Republic. For a long time, this State has needed a comprehensive reporting method on Exchequer spending, and I hope this Bill will deliver it to the House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland-Canada Trade Relations: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...to say. If other countries are ratifying it, maybe we should, too. Yet, it is notable that we do not need to be the first. There was talk of us being among the first and it was certainly a long road-----