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Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I welcome any help for businesses through the EWSS and the CRSS. Businesses suffered hugely through the Covid crisis, not knowing from one moment to the next what restrictions were being put in place or when they would be enacted. The Government kept us all hanging in this regard, although it leaked any announcements to the press days before they were made. We have gone from Brexit to...

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: There has been a sharp rise in hate speech and hate crime across Europe and Ireland is no different in this regard. It has become a particularly worrying and serious phenomenon both online and offline. Hate crimes are existing crimes motivated by hatred against people because of their actual or perceived membership of a particular group. They are message crimes intended to frighten,...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Remote and flexible working can offer renewed vigour to Ireland's rural development plan. It is crucial to attract workers to rural Ireland after the pandemic with new job opportunities, remote working hubs and supports for those working from home. Without remote working, rural decline will continue beyond its current trajectory. The Government's five-year strategy, Our Rural Future,...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: No parent child expects their child to have a disability. In many cases, it is the parents who first notice that their baby may not be reaching its developmental milestones. The parents may notice that their baby appears different in some way to its peers. When this undefined worry becomes a reality, it is reasonable for any parent to expect that he or she will be able to access services...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Today we celebrate International Women's Day. No disrespect to the Minister of State but throughout the debate there has been a gentleman on the Government side instead of a lady. It would have been more appropriate that a female Minister was here, no disrespect to the Minister of State. International Women's Day gives us all a chance to recognise the extraordinary contribution of women...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on planned major renovation and rebuilding works to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12611/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the way that interested applicants could be expected to have the opportunity to apply for the position of chair of the three-year review of the 2018 abortion legislation given the tender was not publicly issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12423/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 498. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the tender for a chair of the three-year review of the abortion legislation was not published on eTenders as he and his Departmental colleague claimed it would be on 8 December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12424/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (3 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 332. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for an abortion under current telemedicine provisions must be held strictly by video link; if a telephone call is deemed sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12193/22]

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank Deputy McNamara and his colleagues for bringing forward the motion. The fact that local NDLS centres are not accessible to many people who need to get a licence if they do not have a public services card is nothing short of our joke. Many Deputies have said the same thing. If it was not broken, why fix it? The Government has a habit of doing such things. It tampers with something...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I wish to share time with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. I am delighted to speak on this motion and I thank Sinn Féin for tabling it. We have had a waiting list crisis in this country for as many years as I have been in the Dáil and long before that. The stress this is causing staff in hospitals is beyond words. I see at first hand the crisis in accident and emergency in Cork...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: This motion, which I support, is very much to support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. We have heard and seen so much in the past few days about Ukraine and the terrible way its people are being treated in their own country by Russia, a move sanctioned by the Russian Government but which may not be supported by the majority of its Russian people. In the past few days,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (1 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 776. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will commence the tender process in respect to the procurement of both operational and strategic legal services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11629/22]

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I do not agree with this legislation. I ask the Minister to go back to the drawing board with this half-baked Bill in order to try to get it right. The Whiddy Island disaster happened 42 years ago. I suppose I am the only Deputy who was unfortunate enough to see what happened that night. I was 11 years old and standing on our doorstep 20 miles away, west of Schull, and looking at the ball...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: Between 1959 and 1999, roughly 3,500 people died as a result of political violence in Northern Ireland. The conflict often referred to as the Troubles has its origins in the 1921 division of Ireland and has reflected the struggle between different national, cultural and religious identities. The latest controversial plans by the British Government to introduce a Troubles amnesty could be...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: It is the Government that is putting the tax on them.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: If Fine Gael loses seats, it will be because of the Minister.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — rural communities and Irish farmers are facing crippling costs for feeds, fertiliser and fuel, which has the potential to wipe out many viable farmers; — the current cost-of-living crisis places crippling financial pressures on all lower income earners, including pensioners, struggling mortgage holders, unemployed,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister of State for a detailed response. He is right that there was no consultation, even with the council. This decision must have been made well in advance of the announcement two weeks ago, considering where we are. We need to find a solution. Would the Minister of State believe that since last Friday, islanders have been left without electricity? No one is speaking on...