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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: I look forward to working with the Minister of State on that. However, to create jobs in rural Ireland, we must focus on the seriousness of the situation regarding the collapse of the fishing industry and what looks like the future collapse of the farming industry in this country. We need to look at issues like the provision of broadband in rural areas. Broadband has not come to rural...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: I thank Deputy Harkin for introducing this Bill, but it looks like the Government will kick the can down the road again. The Minister of State spoke in the Dáil several times about his support for credit unions, but what the Government is doing shows no support for them. I met representatives of the credit unions in Skibbereen, Bantry, Clonakilty and Bandon in west Cork. They are...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: While at the European Council, I hope the Minister of State took the opportunity to discuss the fishing crisis in this country, which has long been overlooked here by successive Ministers. As I have said before, having a dedicated Minister for the marine appears to be off the agenda. We certainly need a focused new-style leadership for the fishing industry in this country. Our greatest...

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: I intended to start on a different subject than the one I am going to start on but changed my mind on listening to Deputy Leddin. In fairness, some people have to educate the people in the Green Party seeing as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are lying by the wayside allowing as much hurt to be inflicted on the ordinary people of rural Ireland as is possible. Carbon tax hurts only the people...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Job Creation (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: 78. To ask the Taoiseach the jobs that have been created in the past 12 months for the south western peninsulas of County Cork and the eight Islands off the south west coast of County Cork. [53404/21]

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

Michael Collins: 413. 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. [52138/21]

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

Michael Collins: 418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite a passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52213/21]

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]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: There is a serious shortage of special needs assistants, SNAs, in schools in west Cork. In the past week, schools in Ballydehob, Caheragh, Schull, Maulatrahane, Dreeny and elsewhere have urgently required SNAs. Despite announcements in budget after budget that extra SNAs have been agreed, nothing is happening for these schools on the ground. This is an urgent situation that needs...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: The Minister has no answer to the question I asked.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: He does not want to answer the question I asked on behalf of the parents and children of west Cork.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: Stop turning the issue into a political football.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: 109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase funding for roads in west County Cork in 2022 to bring the area in line with other counties that have received funding ahead of the county for many years (details supplied). [45919/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister of State for being with us today. Many of the other committee members have covered the questions I would have asked but that is fine. I respect what the Minister of State has said about farmers needing to understand that when there is a two-person job, they should wait and try to get somebody to help. It is not easy for many farmers, who may be under fierce pressure....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: Yes, it is the work experience element. Young people are under immense pressure for €3.48 per hour, or that is what it works out at for this gentleman. It is the same in many cases, milking 170 cows morning and evening, as well as all the work that goes with it, including slurry spreading. He works so many weeks at 35 hours per week. That brings savage pressure on young fellows....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: On Saturday, 23 October last, at the Michael Collins Centre on the Timoleague Road, Clonakilty, owned by Tim and Dolores Crowley, all Oireachtas Members from across the political divide met the Michael Collins 100 committee. The purpose of this requested meeting by the national non-political committee was to help with its urgent search for a site for a Michael Collins statue in our capital,...

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Collins: Rural communities are the most at risk of energy and transport poverty. That is according to a new study from a variety of universities which claim that rural residents in Ireland are most at risk due to a lack of access to national heating infrastructure, a high risk of power cuts and the fact they live in older homes with poor insulation. Transport poverty issues are linked to the lack of...