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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: 434. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52863/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: 435. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a first-time application for a passport for an infant (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52864/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: 611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: 881. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no facilities for admitting adults who have an intellectual disability and require residential psychiatric treatment, further to advice to this Deputy that the HSE does not have the resources to deal with them; if this is correct; and if so, the reason. [52301/21]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: The Bill is very unfair in the way matters are being laid out for the fishermen of this country. In his short time acting as Minister with responsibility for agriculture between appointments, the Taoiseach signed a statutory instrument and we now find ourselves facing severe penalties for good, hard-working and honest-to-God fishermen of the Irish waters. As a nation and as politicians in...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: This penalty point system for fishermen is a disaster from start to finish. It has been opposed by the main fishermen's organisations who felt there was little or no consultation and on that basis, I will be opposing this section.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I oppose the amendment. I will speaking on this at a later stage again. As I said, there was poor discussion on this Bill with the fishing organisations. I have been talking to the organisations since the Taoiseach signed the statutory instrument and set the ball in motion. They are furious about so many things that have been heaped on their backs in the past year and a half. It might...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: It is not agreed.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I have been meeting with fishing organisations in south-west Cork, as well as Donegal, Galway and Wexford, over the past 12 months or more. These are people with more knowledge than myself, and every one of them has asked me to pose the Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill in the best way possible. I am trying to do that. However, it is not just that alone. This has been a...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: The situation in which we find ourselves is a result of the Government trying to push through the Bill and the penalty points system. It looks as if fishermen on the water are damned if they do and damned if they do not. It seems that fishermen who are innocent will be landed with penalty points. Even if fishermen can prove their innocence, they will still be on their backs, as such. It...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: It is not agreed without discussion.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, line 35, to delete “30 working days” and substitute “60 working days”.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: As Deputy Pringle said, additional time is needed. Thirty days is a short period to try to put together paperwork. If you feel you are being wronged and there is a case to be fought, you might still be at sea, and you have to put together that case when you get back. When a fisherman goes to sea, it is for two weeks, most of the time. Some of them find it so difficult to make a living...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, line 37, to delete “30 working days” and substitute “60 working days”.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 12, line 17, to delete “on the balance of probabilities” and substitute “beyond a reasonable doubt”. The issue comes down to whether the innocence of a fisherman is taken into account. When we were talking about the proposed change from 30 to 60 days the Minister said we do not want to delay the application of points. That is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I challenge this amendment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 9: In page 14, to delete lines 26 to 29 and substitute the following: “15J.(1) Subject to subsection (2), points assigned by the Authority to a master who is an Irish citizen are suspended when any appeal is pending and shall be deemed fully revoked upon successful outcome of any such proceedings, in respect of the infringement concerned.”. This...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 11: In page 17, line 17, after “fee” to insert “(not exceeding €25)”. In the event of this very unjust Bill being passed by the Dáil, every fisherman and fisherwoman will have the right to appeal his or her conviction, especially if he or she is in the right. I asked the Minister about the recent near ramming incident off...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I find this astonishing, to be honest. The sea-fisheries Bill is going through but it does not have a set fee for people who want to appeal their conviction and penalty points. The Minister says he wants to be reasonable. He could not be more reasonable than by including a figure of €25. My worry is that while this Minister might want to be reasonable, the next Minister might not...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 12: In page 17, line 23, to delete “30 working days” and substitute “60 working days”.