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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Michael Collins: Yes.

Adaption Grants for Older People and People with a Disability: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Regional Group for the opportunity to discuss this is extremely important issue. I was doing clinics from Castletownbere right across to Kinsale last weekend. I do not know how many of these forms I filled out in respect of housing aid for the elderly, the mobility grant aid or those with disabilities. The issue is that the funding is no longer meeting the requirement. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: On 23 December 1996, one of Ireland’s most horrific murders took place at Kealfadda, which is near Goleen, when the body of Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found near her holiday home in my parish a couple of miles west of my home. At the time, the murder was the cause of real horror among local people. When the identity of the person who died became public, however, it sent shock...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Will a new file be submitted in time to the DPP on foot of investigations that are now taking place?

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: The original Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 was signed into law on 30 December 2015. The Act applies to everyone and is relevant to all health and social care services. It relates to supporting decision-making and maximising a person’s capacity to make decisions. However, it will not be commenced until June 2022, almost seven years after it was signed into law, because...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 May 2022)

Michael Collins: 695. To ask the Minister for Health when IVF treatment will be available through the public health system in Ireland; the clinics in County Cork that will be included in the provision of the treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27545/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: - the current geopolitical situation emphasises the imperative need to establish robust policies to develop our own energy supplies, including renewable energy sources; - Ireland, like all other member states, is bound by European Union (EU) directives on energy regulation, meaning an obligation exists to plan and develop...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Hear, hear.

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: In regard to burials, the rules and regulations need to be looked at in a deeper manner. I contacted the Department not so long ago about a constituent in west Cork who wanted to be buried in their own home grounds. Nobody could give me the information. The local authority and two different Departments could not give me the information. The people were very upset at a very delicate time...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: I tried and failed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: As the Tánaiste has already heard in the House many times this morning, household energy bills have gone through the roof. Electricity and fuel costs have been hyped up with massive Government taxes, which take people's household bills beyond reach. Farm contractors, hauliers and ordinary mothers and fathers are not able to keep up with the cost of fuel. An even bigger concern is the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: 652. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29542/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: 653. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport applications for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (15 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: 201. To ask the Minister for Health further to a reply received by a person (details supplied) from the HSE on 20 May 2022 in which it was claimed that a majority of abortion providers within primary care agree that a blended approach of telemedicine is optimal, if he will identify the polling data upon which said claim is based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31077/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (15 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if external organisations have been contracted by the HSE to provide manual vacuum aspiration training for hospital staff involved in abortion provision; the organisations that were contracted; the details of the contracts including timeframes and sums payable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31078/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Over the past few days the French authorities have notified Irish authorities that the French navy is going ahead with a military exercise, some of which was going to be inside the Irish economic zone off the south coast. This is the second country, Russia being the first, that has notified Irish authorities that it is to carry out a military exercise within Irish zoned waters in recent...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: Will that be this week?

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: The proposal is a good compromise and addresses cyber-violence against women as never before in a binding legal instrument. As is the case in respect of every legislative procedure, it could have been better but it could also have been much less ambitious. The advancement of technology has enabled us to connect and share important information, to speak up and raise awareness of human rights...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: My colleagues in the Rural Independent Group and I demand that the Government retain accident and emergency services at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan fully. We also demand that the Minister for Health immediately remove any reference to the closure of these services from the small hospitals framework. I know exactly how the people of Navan feel. Just last year, I had to drag the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (21 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the refund from electrical suppliers to micro-generating customers will start; the amounts that will be refunded; and the reason for the delay. [32684/22]