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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: Deputy Bruton made a statement and he does not have the decency to withdraw it.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: On a point of order, he needs to take that back. I certainly spent hours discussing this and our amendments. Every one of our amendments was refused and Deputy Bruton had better wake up and smell the grass growing. He and his party have been representing the rich farmers for all of his life-----

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: ----- and what he wants to do here today is represent the wealthy-----

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: ----- and the rich while the ordinary person is burnt alive on the ground.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: I have never heard the likes of it.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: He has been representing rich farmers all his life.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: The high and mighty-----

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: That is incorrect. I was there at the debate.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: I was at the debate. How dare you. Correct the record of the Dáil. That man does not have a clue what he is on about.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: He cannot be allowed to say that in the Dáil-----

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: I was there last Thursday and I spoke on an amendment-----

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: Deputy Bruton has misled the Dáil. I spoke on the amendments on Thursday for as long as the debate continued.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: People also come to west Cork to see the beautiful greenery, as the Minister does, but he has forgotten this when it comes to the Bill. The Bill is a complete attack on rural Ireland. I want to speak on the amendments. To think that 239 amendments were tabled, 75 of which were tabled by the Rural Independent Group, and the Minister is going to reject every one of them. Does he think we do...

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: I have been involved with farming organisations while a farmer. I once said to a politician that if one does not wear a pair of wellingtons, one does not know what farming is about. Being involved in CAP negotiations through farm organisations down through the years, I always wanted to make sure that the family farm was sustainable. It has not been sustainable, and it is not sustainable...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: The Irish fishing industry has stumbled from one crisis to another in the past 12 months, with penalty points, the terrible Brexit deal for the industry and, in recent weeks, the weighing crisis that the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine have known about since Christmas but did not inform the sector of until 16 April. Now we find out...

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: As all Deputies know, the housing crisis is out of control. Far too many people are being refused the basic human need of shelter. Their need is not being met though absolutely no fault of their own. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have failed repeatedly to build the housing our citizens need in the right place, at the right price and in the right quantity. The crisis is touching every...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: 238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any foreign fishing vessels landing a catch at Irish ports are being facilitated to avoid the weighting of fish at the pier requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: 239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the foreign fishing vessels that have landed fish at Irish piers and have been allowed to bypass the weighting of fish at the pier requirement since the requirement was introduced; the volume and species of fish involved; the name of the pier in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32292/21]

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: I think four colleagues, and two minutes each, if you do not mind. Thank you, Ceann Comhairle. Like many other Deputies here in the Dáil, I have been inundated with emails and calls regarding this mica crisis. I wish to add my support and say a few words on the horrific situation in which these homeowners find themselves. There is a misconception that builders should cover the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming: Discussion (15 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: Many issues come before the committee of which I do not have much knowledge but I do have knowledge of the organic sector because I was involved in organic farming until last year. My son has now taken over the farm, which he is farming organically. I have been farming organically for the past 20 years or so. It is an area that has never grown. It is almost impossible to sell cattle as...