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Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: Business confidence in Ireland is already among the lowest in the EU. The ongoing impact of Covid-19 and the approaching deadline is a massive cause of concern for small and medium-sized enterprises in Ireland. The details published today in the economic forecasts from the Department of Finance for budget 2021 assume one in seven jobs will be lost this year. I want to talk about...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: As the Taoiseach will be aware, farmers are going through an extremely difficult time whether they are dairy, beef or sheep farmers. The price of cattle is at a low figure. Many farmers totally depend on a good price for cattle to survive and basically feed their families and put them through college or simply pay their own bills and put food on the table. Many farmers are advised to...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: The pandemic unemployment payment should be fully reinstated and backdated at the higher payment rate for all recipients. The top rate of Covid-19 unemployment payment was reduced in September from €350 to €300 and it is due to be reduced in early in 2021 to €250. The cuts are putting thousands of individuals into poverty. The rate of the payment should be restored for...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: Ireland has the lowest employment rate for people with disabilities in the EU. It is almost 20% lower than the EU average of 50.8%. Some 27% of the homeless population have a disability, which is double the rate in the general population. More than 1,400 people with disabilities under the age of 65 are inappropriately placed in nursing homes. Services are carrying more than €40...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach, even though some of his reply was a mockery to the people who are struggling with pains and are going blind. The Taoiseach must be well aware of the benefit of the cross-border scheme, as it was on the Fianna Fáil pre-election video, showing what a great benefit it was and how Fianna Fáil got operations for its constituents. Maybe the Taoiseach was outside...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: Quite clearly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: It means that other directives and legislation should be put in place already.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: The Taoiseach asked me a question and I gave an answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: I am not saying it is not. We have failed the people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: We have failed them. There are 90-year-olds having to go to Northern Ireland.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: It is not happening.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: It is not a laughing matter. They are going blind on the Taoiseach's watch. That is the second time that he has laughed. People are not happy about that. There are people from Dublin Hill, Cork, Kanturk, Macroom and all over parts of Kerry frantically heading to Belfast. One of these is a 36 year old woman, Maeve, from the Taoiseach's constituency. She has allowed me to use her name....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: And God bless him, if he did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: The Taoiseach should look after his constituents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: I want to concentrate on the many who suffer from massive pain in this country, whether it be from hip or knee, or the pain and worry of losing eyesight and being in need of a cataract operation. The cataract operation is a 20-minute procedure for which many people in Cork and Kerry have been waiting for five years. For many of these, the cross-border directive has been a game changer in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Archaeological Sites (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support the application for funding under the community monument fund for Togher Castle, Dunmanway, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28540/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Covid-19 on the Agriculture Sector and Priorities for CAP and Brexit: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: I wish the Chairman and Vice Chairman the very best in their new roles. I am delighted to welcome the Minister to the committee and to wish him well in his brief. I have several issues to raise. We have a new Government which we are told is a green Government. My first question relates to the organic sector and the fact that organic farming is, in effect, closed to small farmers. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Covid-19 on the Agriculture Sector and Priorities for CAP and Brexit: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for the replies. There have been many questions, in fairness, and I appreciate that he got through nearly all of them. There has been mention of the new Common Agricultural Policy but is there any possibility we might have a new LEADER programme? Over the past couple of years this has been a disaster, to say the least, in comparison with what we had in previous...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: A few days ago, the Taoiseach mentioned the possibility of addressing rising numbers of Covid cases in four named cities on a citywide rather than a countywide basis, which I fully understand. In one electoral area in west Cork we have had fewer than five cases in the past 14 days. As this is based on per 100,000 population and the population of the local electoral area is fewer than 25,000...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (1 Oct 2020)

Michael Collins: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a grant or scheme is available to schools to help with the purchase of yard equipment, for example, playground equipment; if funding is available under the CLÁR programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27960/20]