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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Collins: 410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will release to a person (details supplied) the records relating to his transfer from the Department of Social Protection to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on secondment, as he has requested under freedom of information and general data protection regulation legislation (details supplied); and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Conservation (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Collins: 903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36038/22]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: The Rural Independent Group supports the motion, as we have done on each previous occasion on which it has been before us. On the whole, the Special Criminal Court has been an effective tool against subversive elements and, in recent years, organised criminal gangs, and for that reason it is worth retaining. The case for its retention, however, is far from unanswerable. We need to be clear...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: On Monday last, at a meeting of Cork County Council meeting, the order of business was suspended to discuss another Irish fishing industry crisis in the term of this Government. Fishing boats in Castletownbere, Union Hall and other piers in County Cork are staying tied to the pier as fishermen cannot afford to fuel their trawlers and boats. One councillor stated that he was told by a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: That is where the Government has led them. It is ruining their future.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: The Minister might answer the question. I am not supporting it.

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: I am sharing time with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. This Bill would oblige the Government to produce a cross-departmental autism strategy and require all relevant Ministers and public bodies to co-operate with its implementation. The strategy would outline how the needs of people with autism, including access to education, other public services, employment and social inclusion, can be met by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: My questions are brief as some have been asked already. The Minister stated that the new office will encourage fairness and transparency in the agrifood sector, which is a good news story. The information I have indicates that the board will be appointed by the Minister and consist of a chairperson and five ordinary members. Will the Minister appoint the board directly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister. There were several protests by farmers outside factories a number of years ago. Many people felt very annoyed that a lot of profit was being made from animal parts that the farmer did not seem to benefit from. Will the new office have the power to enter into factories and check this out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Will the new office have the powers to go into factories to investigate matters? As I said, there were a lot of rumours outside the factory gates from farmers who sold cattle and felt animal parts were being sold on for a hell of a lot more profit than they received. It is something farmers felt very aggrieved about at the time. Is it possible that the new office will have the power to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister.

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: The Rural Independent Group fully supports the motion. We were the first political grouping in the Dáil to call on the Government to hold an emergency mini budget, when we moved a Private Members' motion on 23 February 2022. We also moved a Private Members' motion in April calling on the Government to axe the carbon tax, which would have had the impact of putting about €8,000...

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Regarding the wider and often overlooked point about our national electricity grid, it is opportune to outline that there is only one electricity grid in Ireland. It is operated by EirGrid and owned by the State. Today, 40% of Ireland's electricity is generated by gas; 40% by wind; 10% by coal; and 10% by peat, oil and solar energy. Another point worth noting is that the grid is largely...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: The Taoiseach might have heard that yesterday there was a suspension of standing orders at a meeting of a county council to discuss another fishing crisis that has emerged under his Government. The fishing trawlers in Castletownbere, Union Hall and other piers in County Cork are staying tied up at those piers as trawler and boat owners cannot afford to go out due to the astronomical fuel...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: In regard to Dr. Niall Muldoon’s damning report last week on children with special needs, it is scandalous that 4,000 children are waiting for diagnostic assessments to get school places, 15,500 are going to schools outside their own community and 1,500 are receiving home tuition because they cannot get school places. It is only a few months ago that the decision was made by the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Not at all. I am talking about children with special needs getting the respect they need.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Have respect for the children. There is no respect.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: What are we here for? This is outrageous.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: 502. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that three online renewal passports for persons (details supplied) are taking over the 15 working days to process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34351/22]