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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: I welcome the witnesses. I have one question. The IFA has figures and Teagasc has figures, and Teagasc feeds information back to the Government. I cannot understand why a paltry package of €7 million in funding was provided a month or two ago, given that there is such a crisis in the pig industry. It seems that there could be another €13 million in funding - that is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: Some of the questions I wanted to ask have been asked already so I have only three questions. First, Mr. Healy is saying the EU average is €1.85 to €1.87 per kilogram and MII is paying €1.70 per kilogram. That is my assumption and that was only €1.50 up to two weeks ago. How is it MII has been able to pay that extra 20 cent over the past couple of weeks? Why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Vice Chairman but all the questions I had have been asked already.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: That makes it fine so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his answer but I do not think he quite grasps what the question was all about. He spent about two minutes talking about fishing and farming. Good God, he should come down to west Cork and talk to the fishermen and farmers. He will not be long there; he will be run out of it quickly. The Taoiseach has to be straight with the public here. Outside of Dublin the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: That is what the Government is doing. What about the post offices?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: Is it for all of Ireland?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: It should be in the country, not just the capital.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: The Taoiseach cannot grasp it; we do not have public transport in most rural communities.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: Where do we have it? When do we have it? I can name plenty of places in west Cork that do not have it. We have private operators and they are willing to do this but the Government is wiping them out. It is sitting on its hands.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: The ongoing saga of the temporary replacement for the Dursey Island cable car rolls on, with the announcement last week that the long-awaited replacement ferry service will start this week but can be funded for only three weeks. Many politicians have welcomed this but I am furious. The people of the Beara Peninsula and residents of Dursey Island as well as landowners and visitors are left...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the motion which addresses such a significant issue. As of now, do we know whether the sale of turf is banned? As far as the Taoiseach was concerned earlier today, it is okay to sell it this year. It is a case of kicking the can down the road as far as he is concerned. Of course, he will be gone from next year so he does not care. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: Over the past few months, the Minister for Transport has been making one bizarre announcement after another. The first was that Irish people should grow salad on south-facing windowsills to ensure food supplies during Covid-19. The second was to tell drivers to slow down on the motorway to save fuel. The third was to have one car in the village to which people from rural communities should...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: The introduction of carbon tax to this country has been one of the biggest robberies carried out by white-collar people in this island. Everything the Rural Independent Group said when it was introduced has come true. We said it would price car fuel and home heating oil through the roof, and it did. We said electricity bills would go through the roof, and they have. There is so more - I...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: Has the Deputy forgotten what the Labour Party did with the women's pension? The Labour Party stood on the innocent women of this country. He ought to be ashamed of himself to stand there.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: I have no manners at all. We will tell the Deputy the truth even though he may not like to hear it.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: He does not want to hear the truth. That is what the Labour Party did.

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Michael Collins: Ordinary working people my eye.