Results 3,281-3,300 of 3,902 for speaker:Michael Collins
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: I would like to share time with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae.
- Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: I support this important Bill, which seeks to provide for greater security of tenure and rent certainty for tenants. It has been confirmed that a majority of those who are becoming homeless are from the private rented sector. Many of my constituents in places like Bantry, Baltimore, Skibbereen, Kealkil, Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Bandon and Kinsale, to name just a few, are unable to get on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: There are two types of services. One is the day to day Local Links rural transport services. It is second to none in most cases. I have no qualm with those services. The daytime service in west Cork is well laid out, excellently managed and delivered to many people suffering from rural isolation. However, the proposed new service being piloted is doomed to failure before it starts. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: I told the Minister about the €200,000. The Minister has to be honest. If a provider is putting a service together and is told €200,000 is available nationally, will he look for €500,000? Why not? The Minister is not silly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: It was €200,000 initially.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: It is common sense.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: I have been working in the community for many years. I have also been in political life for many years, albeit for a shorter period. If this initiative works, I will praise the Minister here, just as I have praised how rural transport works. The Department is funding rural transport. If something works it works; if it needs tweaking it needs tweaking. Tweaking is needed now. Six months...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)
Michael Collins: It is easy to see that the Minister is trying to deflect attention from his Bill. The referendum has nothing to do with it.
- Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)
Michael Collins: I support this Bill to give students in student specific accommodation under licence the full protections of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, including access to the Residential Tenancies Board and inclusion in the rent pressure zones. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. I understand that it is an extremely expensive time for parents of college students. We need to look...
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Michael Collins: On page 59 in the programme for Government the incoming Government promised to update the national eye care plan and also promised to evaluate the Sligo cataract surgery model, which had been raised in the talks for Government by the Rural Independent Group. I put it to the Taoiseach that the reality in the constituency of Cork South-West is that people are waiting years for cataract...
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Michael Collins: What is the Taoiseach's response?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)
Michael Collins: We did not see them in here in the last week.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)
Michael Collins: Stop protecting the Minister, Deputy Ross.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)
Michael Collins: The fact is the Judiciary-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)
Michael Collins: It is all about the Minister, Deputy Ross. It is time to wake up and see what he has done.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)
Michael Collins: The Minister certainly did not understand it either and he put it forward.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)
Michael Collins: It is a dog's dinner. The whole country is telling them that.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Michael Collins: Deputy Michael Healy-Rae said earlier that he spoke to people. I did the same. Maybe we might be taking the wrong direction. It is good to get direction from the people who elected us. The feeling on the ground is to stop now while the Minister is ahead. It is becoming more evident as the hours go on that this is a farcical Bill. I refer to fit and proper board of management experience....
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Michael Collins: That is not the road I would expect them to travel. However, it looks like it is. I would not support the elite to be getting jobs. That is exactly what we have been trying to clean out for many years. The nonsensical nod-and-wink style of politics. As Deputy McGuinness and Deputy Mattie McGrath said, there is a woman in jail for three weeks and no one cares. That is what we should be...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Michael Collins: I call on the other party supporting and keeping it rolling on to pull the plug now in time.