Results 1-4 of 4 for waste management speaker:Michael Collins
- Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Michael Collins: ...smaller businesses, this additional financial burden may pose a challenge. While automatic enrolment aims to increase participation, some employees may resist being enrolled. They might prefer to manage their own retirement savings or have concerns about the impact on their take-home pay. The Bill does specify investment options or guarantee returns. The retirement savings of...
- Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)
Michael Collins: ...the lack of special need assistants and teachers in our classrooms and how will schools fill their oil tanks. Schools have to face those challenges on a daily basis. I am on a school board of management and I know difficult it is to get funding to address these issues. We should be discussing how funding will be secured to fix a school roof where State funding has not been given....
- Forestry (Planning Permission) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2020)
Michael Collins: ...an immediate problem for Ireland's housebuilding programme when timber starts to run short. Imports are expensive and hard to come by right now, with strong demand for timber worldwide. GP Woods has managed to source some supply and it will start to arrive next month, which goes against everything they have stood for. It is being shipped across Europe, there is an environmental impact...
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)
Michael Collins: ...be an immediate problem for Ireland's house building programme when timber starts to run short. Imports are expensive and difficult to come by, with strong demand for timber worldwide. GP Wood has managed to source some supplies, which will start arriving next month, but doing so goes against everything GP Wood stands for - shipping across Europe, the environmental impact and supporting...