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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I come from beautiful west Cork where a fabulous development is proposed that cleared planning recently. It will be super for our rural community to set up a lovely community centre. From what I gather - the witnesses can claim I am in the wrong - from media reports this week, An Taisce and BirdWatch Ireland have opposed this and gone for a judicial review. It will be a disaster for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: That is fine. Those are the questions I want to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Draft Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023-2027: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: We can talk about it privately. That is no problem.

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: The members of the Women of Honour group must be respected after years of abuse in the Defence Forces and a full commission of investigation must be set up. These women were treated shockingly. A proper investigation is required. It should be one where no areas are hidden. A situation where people cannot get the truth out should not be allowed. To be quite honest, this matter sounds as...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: At Cork County Council level there was shock and dismay at the announcement that the Dursey cable car will have to be suspended due to emergency repairs needed from 1 April until November 2022. This, coupled with An Taisce and some crowd called BirdWatch Ireland forcing a judicial review on planning given recently for a €10 million community development scheme, is leaving locals who...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: No, I am talking about the Dursey cable car being closed for the summer months.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: Yes. There is a local solution that could be accommodated by all if there were funds for it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I am quite happy to do that. There might be a ferry service provided while the cable car is closed so that tourism can continue in Dursey Island, which is of huge importance.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if he misled the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health on 8 December 2021 by claiming that an e-tender for the position of the independent chair of the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 would be uploaded online via the e-tendering public procurement process yet ultimately invited a small number of hand-picked...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: 682. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the steps undertaken in the tendering process leading to the appointment of the independent chairperson of the three-year review of the abortion legislation; if the position was advertised publicly as the Minister assured the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health on 8 December 2021 would happen; the way that it meets the requirements of an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: 786. To ask the Minister for Health when the commitment to publicly fund IVF treatment in Ireland will be honoured by becoming law, given that Ireland is the only European Union country not to offer State funding for assisted reproduction even though the World Health Organisation recognises infertility as a medical condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6648/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I will keep to my time as I must head back to west Cork afterwards. This Bill amounts to nothing more than tokenism. It is much too little and is way too late. It will have little to no impact. I and my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group have been calling on the Government to act on crippling energy price hikes for more than a year. Earlier this week the Central Bank announced...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. While this Bill is welcome, it comes very late for many workers who have worked hard in the workplace, and have been let very badly down. The Bill is technical in nature and comprises four sections. The purpose of the legislation is to provide for the making of a once-off State-funded payment to workers facing redundancy who have lost the opportunity to procure...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: Two weeks ago, the Government announced a €1,000 payment as recognition for the work done during the pandemic by care workers in hospital settings, and that must be welcomed. Last week, we saw added to the people who will receive the payment the home help staff who continue to do Trojan work in their communities. One sector has been overlooked, and those are the carers working in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: Many farmers in this country are facing a wipeout this year due to the astronomical increases in fertiliser costs. A farmer who paid €300 last year for a tonne, or 20 bags, of the most popular type of fertiliser will pay €900 this year. This is an astonishing increase that will leave many farmers with a nightmare decision as to how they will pay for fertiliser this year....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply, but it was muddled to say the least. The most he said is that farmers will get an information pack. Farmers do not want an information pack; they want some of the kind of relief of the sort that Mr. Santini of the EU agricultural committee told us two weeks ago can be given by the Government. We know of farmers who could not get credit and who had...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the reason pay parity for staff working in residential homes caring for children has not been addressed (details supplied). [5719/22]

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: The Minister was right when he said it is bizarre. It is quite bizarre, to be quite honest, to think that we are only going to get two hours tonight to debate this hugely important issue of what is basically the destruction of the Irish fishing sector. We will only get through to five or six amendments and then it will be all over and gone, and that is it. Unfortunately, we need more time....

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, line 4, to delete “30 working days” and substitute “60 working days”. This is a fair amendment. You must look at the type of work a fisher does. If something as huge as penalty points is hoisted upon his or her back then he or she will need time. They will need time to challenge what is probably an unfair conviction being...