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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I asked if that memo will be brought to Cabinet and the Minister of State is saying "No" it will not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on the business plan now reported on by his Department on the funding application to develop the Waterford Airport runway extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41978/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: My question relates to the Waterford business plan to extend the airport at Waterford. Will the Minister make a statement on the matter having received an update from his Department?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I acknowledge the hospital pass that the Minister of State has been given with this project. I wrote to his Department asking when in the past ten years a project that was 100% going to be funded by the private sector before the Department put in a cent of funding was last done. Nothing like it has been done in the previous ten years. The proposal is that private money will deliver the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I just cannot share the Minister of State’s opinion that the private sector, which is putting probably €24 million into this project, does not know what it is doing but the Department does. I remind him that in 2007, a Fianna Fáil Government gave a commitment to do the runway extension at Waterford at a cost of €25 million. Just like 24-7 cath labs, our university...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Sorry, we are talking about Waterford Airport here, not the blooming metro.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I raised the dysfunctional spending in the Department, which is now saying it will have oversight of this project when this project is being entirely funded by the private sector.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the witnesses for attending. It is important to go back - the Cathaoirleach has signalled that this issue will probably be revisited - to try to understand what is the blockage to nurse prescribing. It happens in other areas of medicine, especially with the advanced clinical nurse practitioners. It is an obvious efficiency outcome and as the witnesses said, doctors may not be...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Would any other speaker like to take that on as well?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I want to ask both witnesses about monitoring. Dr. Kelly referenced a high level document he was not allowed to contribute to because the HSE was the lead agency evaluating all of this. What awareness do the witnesses have of the monitoring of their efficiency metrics in the system in order to understand where they are going in getting patients through the system, the waiting times and the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost-benefit analysis that has been done by his Department to identify economic benefit of passenger jet aviation into each region of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (17 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act was passed in 2021, if the offence of perjury has yet been codified under the Courts Service’s criminal case tracking system; the number of offences have been prosecuted in the courts since enactment; whether this marks an increase in...

VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice and his colleagues for bringing forward this motion, which speaks to support for all of the SME sector. Across the sector, there are significant challenges for SMEs, retailers, hairdressers, beauty salons and all service providers, as we heard on the streets yesterday. There are specific challenges for the food and hospitality sectors. This motion is calling for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. I acknowledge Mr. Tom Hogan and Mr. Jimmy Kelly in the Gallery, who both have a significant legacy in the form of Waterford Crystal. Mr. O'Connor and I have spoken a couple of times previously, and I thank Mr. Glanzer for his early start this morning in New York. I am from Waterford, in case our guests have not guessed that, and I have had an interest in this area for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: In general, the idea of GI is important and, as has been pointed out, GI status was achieved for the Waterford blaa, which is a Huguenot bread recipe, as the committee will be aware. It is quite distinctive and we are very happy to have it in Waterford, and we can certainly see the benefit it would have right across-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I am out of time and I have to go to the Dáil as well. I will try to get back before the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Yes. We certainly see the benefit of the status across the country. To Mr. Kennedy, achieving GI status for an organic product such as a bread could take five years, but could it be the case that for something such as an industrial product, where there are not health and safety issues relating to human consumption, it would take far less time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Yes. Mr. Kennedy said it could take three to five years. I am asking about something like an industrial product that, while artisan, will not be consumed. Would that shorten the timeframe for regulatory approval?

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has any plans to extend the part-time job incentive beyond the current 12-month eligibility period (details supplied); if there is currently any discretion in the local offices to have the period extended; if she will acknowledge that where employers do not offer additional hours following the end of the...