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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Independent Ireland will not be opposing this Bill going through the Dáil. That might be an example to the Minister as to how we are open to doing business. When we put forward a motion two or three weeks ago we put forward about 20 proposals, the Government put forward 24 or 25 amendments to make sure it did not go through the Dáil. It might have resolved the situation around...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: This is the fifth week in a row I have asked that the Minister for education come to the Dáil to talk about the capitation grant and class sizes. It is hugely important now. We are facing into the summer break, almost immediately after which we will have the budget. It is a huge concern in the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO, especially with regard to the capitation grant...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 313. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline, given the difficulties with getting school bus drivers, the reason those willing to drive the school bus and who may have a small pension face a Revenue bill during the summer months when they have to draw down jobseeker’s allowance for seven weeks (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37687/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 335. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by two years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37818/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 336. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by three years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37819/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 337. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by four years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 854. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that exist to ensure that healthcare professionals who do not wish to participate in abortions can exercise freedom of conscience in this regard during their training as doctors, nurses and midwives and or pharmacists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37675/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 855. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will undertake further independent research into abortion provision through remote consultations, in light of a report in a newspaper (details supplied) on 1 July 2025 on the lack of regulation of telemedicine, and the HSE's more recent position since the 2021 review that telemedicine abortion can make it more difficult to identify...

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I speak to the Minister today not just as leader of Independent Ireland or on behalf of my constituents, but on behalf of the tens of thousands of people across this country who feel ultimately betrayed by a Government that has wilfully ceded Irish sovereignty, ignored countless opinion polls and placed the interest of Brussels and bureaucracy above the basic needs of its own citizens. The...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: As so many speakers have said, the war and the scenes taking place out there are horrific. Nothing hits an Irish person more than to see millions of young people, or any person, facing starvation. It could not hit a deeper note in the mind of any Irish person because we have had this in our own history. It is something that will never be forgotten in the history of this country and what is...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this very important motion today. I am sure there is not one person in the Dáil who saw the documentary who was not disgusted by the way our elderly were being treated. If big businesses are treating our elderly in such a terrible way, we must ensure we do all we can so that this does not continue. That said, we cannot tar everybody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I welcome the witnesses. At the very beginning, Mr. Hyland said that this was a very important committee. However, if the hauliers are not operating properly, then this country grinds to a halt, so they are far more important than whatever we can do here. We must make sure that does not happen. It is hugely important to us that they are here today. I listened with great interest to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: How much is a mirror?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Okay.

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: We in Independent Ireland stand firmly behind the implementation of the EPSEN review report recommendations. The time has come for long overdue justice for our children with additional needs. We have seen two decades of delay since the EPSEN Act was passed in 2004, yet here we are with the core rights promised in law, like individual education plans and proper assessments, still...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Island funding is crucial for many of our islands but its distribution needs closer scrutiny. The Bere Island Projects Group, which covers Bere Island, Whiddy Island and Dursey Island, has three full-time staff and must manage office, utilities and running costs from a budget that saw only a 2.1% increase. This is insufficient for standard cost-of-living requirements, in comparison to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: We need to have statements today on higher education, especially on the confusion regarding fees. Since the announcement, lot of parents have told me that they are having discussions around their tables about whether their child will go to college and whether they can afford to send the child to college or not. That is not a discussion that families should have. Our children and young...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (26 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: 72. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to end the disparity in funding between private and public nursing homes and thus protect the viability of all private and voluntary nursing homes (details supplied). [35007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Health if plans are in place for a designated respite hospital in County Cork (details supplied); and if not, the reason. [35008/25]