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National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank Deputy McNamara and his colleagues for bringing forward the motion. The fact that local NDLS centres are not accessible to many people who need to get a licence if they do not have a public services card is nothing short of our joke. Many Deputies have said the same thing. If it was not broken, why fix it? The Government has a habit of doing such things. It tampers with something...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (1 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 776. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will commence the tender process in respect to the procurement of both operational and strategic legal services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (3 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 332. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for an abortion under current telemedicine provisions must be held strictly by video link; if a telephone call is deemed sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12193/22]

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Today we celebrate International Women's Day. No disrespect to the Minister of State but throughout the debate there has been a gentleman on the Government side instead of a lady. It would have been more appropriate that a female Minister was here, no disrespect to the Minister of State. International Women's Day gives us all a chance to recognise the extraordinary contribution of women...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: No parent child expects their child to have a disability. In many cases, it is the parents who first notice that their baby may not be reaching its developmental milestones. The parents may notice that their baby appears different in some way to its peers. When this undefined worry becomes a reality, it is reasonable for any parent to expect that he or she will be able to access services...

Flexible and Remote Work: Motion [Private Members] (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Remote and flexible working can offer renewed vigour to Ireland's rural development plan. It is crucial to attract workers to rural Ireland after the pandemic with new job opportunities, remote working hubs and supports for those working from home. Without remote working, rural decline will continue beyond its current trajectory. The Government's five-year strategy, Our Rural Future,...

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: There has been a sharp rise in hate speech and hate crime across Europe and Ireland is no different in this regard. It has become a particularly worrying and serious phenomenon both online and offline. Hate crimes are existing crimes motivated by hatred against people because of their actual or perceived membership of a particular group. They are message crimes intended to frighten,...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Scandalous.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: A disgrace.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I welcome any help for businesses through the EWSS and the CRSS. Businesses suffered hugely through the Covid crisis, not knowing from one moment to the next what restrictions were being put in place or when they would be enacted. The Government kept us all hanging in this regard, although it leaked any announcements to the press days before they were made. We have gone from Brexit to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on planned major renovation and rebuilding works to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12611/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the way that interested applicants could be expected to have the opportunity to apply for the position of chair of the three-year review of the 2018 abortion legislation given the tender was not publicly issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12423/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 498. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the tender for a chair of the three-year review of the abortion legislation was not published on eTenders as he and his Departmental colleague claimed it would be on 8 December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12424/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I have never felt so ashamed for the public as when I heard today about this announcement of a paltry decrease of just 15 cent and 20 cent for fuel, something that was swallowed up overnight in most of the filling stations, and just 2 cent for tractor diesel. My telephone is blocked with voice messages and text messages from men and women who cannot take any more. To take many over the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I have never seen such anger as is among the general public in our country at this time. The simple truth that families, businesses and ordinary people are telling me is that this Government is grinding the country to a halt and we must get it out. The Rural Independent Group raised the crisis with the cost of fuel in the Dáil well before the Ukrainian war and with a broad smile on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply but it alarms me on so many fronts. His Department is anti-rural as it refuses to give this 20% to rural bus operators to pass on to their customers. I also have worries on other fronts. In addition to the plight of our fishermen and farmers and the state of our health sector, I have consistently raised the issue of the security of our national energy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I am not talking to the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, but to the Minister. I am well able to talk to him and I do not need any lecture from the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I am talking to the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Talk through the Chair.