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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to review the case of a person (details supplied) with a pending visa renewal. [5275/25]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: I will beg the indulgence of the Ceann Comhairle to welcome Ryan McKeowan and Zoe Bell to the Gallery. In 2025, super junior Ministers in Ireland receive a total annual salary package of approximately €200,000. Junior Ministers have an additional ministerial salary of €45,846. There is a super junior allowance of €16,000 and an additional travel allowance worth up...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (12 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: On the programme for Government, I listened with interest to the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, saying the reason we would not go into Government with Independent Ireland was our climate plan. I am amazed that he went into Government with Independents who had no policies put in place. That is astonishing. It looks like they wrote them on the back of an A4 page a couple of days...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (12 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister of State. He said this decision was delayed and we know why. It was because a general election was coming. It is a hugely unpopular decision about our regional and national roads. Our councillors made queries about local roads and were told that it was basically dictated from the top. That is what the Independent Ireland councillors were told when they raised...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (12 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. Speed limits have been reduced on many roads in the past week. All these roads were deemed local roads and most people I have spoken to have no issue in the wide, earthly world with that. Where I am living, one of the roads had a limit of 80 km/h but motorists could not do 80 km/h unless they were out of their minds. The best they...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: We in Independent Ireland would like a discussion on the new speed limits that are causing serious concerns all over the country. They went down from 80 km/h to 60 km/h on the local routes, which most people accepted, but now we are being told that speed limits on regional routes, which are the main routes into a lot of a our constituencies, are going from 100 km/h to 80 km/h and from 80...

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (6 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: I extend my sincere gratitude to the Irish and international workers for their tremendous efforts to date. I am fully aware of the hardships faced by many, especially in the west and parts of the midlands. I happened to be in Whitehall and Castlebrock, Longford, over the weekend and witnessed the extensive damage at first hand, with trees lying across roads and houses with large trees...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (6 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to expedite a driving test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3800/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: The increased VAT rate on the hospitality sector has left a total of 612 hospitality businesses closed in the past 12 months throughout the country. I acknowledge that in the programme for Government a reduction in the VAT rate is planned for the hospitality sector but for hundreds of cafés, restaurants and hairdressers this will be too little, too late. After much pleading, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: Can it be done immediately?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: We, too, object to the Order of Business. While I accept that the Chief Whip has done everything she can to give us as much time as possible to discuss the storm, it is still a very serious concern out there. The relevant Ministers - the Minister for the environment, the Minister for Health, the Minister for disabilities, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Social Protection and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to expedite a passport for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2474/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Driver Test (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a repeat driving test will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: School Transport (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the cases of children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2501/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Regulations (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: 836. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps a person (details supplied) can take to register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (5 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: 968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will consider a number of points raised (details supplied) in relation to the sale of a property; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2739/25]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Michael Collins: Independent Ireland congratulates Deputy Micheál Martin and his family on his election as Taoiseach today. Independent Ireland has very serious concerns for our country and looking at the new programme for Government, which is more or less cut and pasted from the last one, leads us to believe that little will change for the next five years for the many people struggling on a daily...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Jan 2025)

Michael Collins: Like others, a Cheann Comhairle, I thank you for resolving the situation that we have had, which has now been going on for seven days. The very democracy of the Irish Republic was in question here and it had to be resolved before we could go forward. We cannot have the situation that was being put before us. That looks like it is going to be resolved going forward and a settlement was made...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Jan 2025)

Michael Collins: I know. I am almost finished. We have a health crisis, with people on trolleys. We have a cost-of-living crisis and we want to discuss whether the carbon tax can continue in this country if we are not to further crucify people. We have an agricultural crisis where people are not getting their payments and we have a fisheries crisis, where the quotas of fishermen are being taken from them.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Jan 2025)

Michael Collins: We need to be here, sitting in the Dáil, next week. On that basis, we will not be supporting the suspension of the Dáil for the next two weeks.