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

Matt Shanahan: ...for Ireland to continue to adopt until we will see how this plays out. I will go back to the issue of the opportunities for exporters to Canada. As I said, it seems that we are not really tapping the market, although it is great to see that exports have climbed quite dramatically over the last decade. Did the Minister of State get any sense of them? One of the issues that occurred in...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...case as people age. Those who grew up using cash always felt they knew the value of something because they had to hand over what was in their pockets in order to pay for it. As Deputy Lowry said, people are tapping their way around society oblivious to what they are paying for something. It is such a simple thing to do to take out a card and swipe it. If people had to take out their...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Further Revised) (30 Jun 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...the economic benefits they present overall. Again with regard to the marine legislation, I am interested in the issue of carbon sequestration. I understand that there is potential to sequester carbon using tapped oil basins, perhaps those off the coast of Kinsale in particular. The Department has probably had some meetings with representatives in this area. Is this technology being...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...in, how strong it is with regard to the organic and inorganic chemical areas and products. It is a really huge amount of the export that we are doing. It is obvious that we have not even begun to tap other potential in the Canadian market. From my point of view, I am most interested in the FDI component. There is a huge opportunity there, and that is what I hope to speak people about...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...has been announced by way of wind port investment for Rosslare. We have all heard how Ireland may have up to ten times its national required wind energy generation offshore. It is just waiting to be tapped on our eastern, southern and western coasts. However, who is going to tap it? Where is the evidence that we in Ireland are trying to create a skillset in understanding manufacturing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...and being kept recurring. I have asked before why can we not allow people to access some of those and see if they can spin some of that stuff out? It is very difficult but there is a rich vein to tap in trying to marry up clever people with clever technologies that need to be developed. The other point relates to VC access. As Mr. Carey knows, it is a real problem for start-ups and for...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...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 or else turn off the tap, creating further system failure and further dysfunction. We have the data to tell us where we have spent money; we never seem to have them to tell us where we have wasted it. In...