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Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: This issue has shaken public confidence and raised serious concerns about transparency and accountability in our institutions. As public representatives, we have a duty to respond not with words alone, but with action. I speak from personal experience. My aunt was severely physically abused by a teacher simply because she was considered at that time as a bit slow. That was the language...

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I thank Deputy Stanley and his group for tabling this very important motion, particularly in view of the crisis we have in dental care throughout the country. In the past 12 months alone, Cork has lost 58 dentists who were providing treatment to medical card holders. This is almost one quarter of all dentists who are part of the dental treatment service scheme. These include 22 dentists in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Excuse me. It is my question now. The Deputy might sit down and give me the decency-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I did not disrupt you when you were speaking.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Sit down, please. Would you ever learn your place in this building?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I want to raise a critical issue affecting the people of Castletownbere, Eyeries and Ardgroom. These communities are effectively frozen, unable to grow and develop because of a water infrastructure crisis that has gone unresolved for far too long. Planning applications are being refused or withdrawn due to the concerns over water abstraction from Glenbeg Lough, which lies within a special...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Today, we are presented with the Health (Amendment) Bill 2025. On the surface, the Bill promises reform, but let us be clear - this is not reform, but bureaucracy dressed up as progress. The Bill does not fix our broken health system. It merely rearranges the furniture in a house that is already on fire. It tinkers with the governance structures while ignoring the real crisis, which is...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I looked at the briefing paper. We agree, as I think most people here do, that we should reduce the timeframe from seven to two years for the disposal of assets identified as proceeds of crime. The Bill strengthens the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, giving it power to restrain and seize assets before the High Court. A process introduces new restraint orders to prevent transactions linked to...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: It is okay, I will mind you.

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Independent Ireland is proud to speak in strong support of this Bill today. This Bill speaks to the very core of fairness, common sense and compassion in public policy. It is a simple but powerful measure that will make a real difference in the lives of thousands of our people who have already been through hell and back. The financial discrimination faced by cancer survivors in Ireland is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (17 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 550. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reimbursement claims submitted and reimbursed (PCRS), per month, for first and second consultations for terminations of pregnancy by GPs, from January to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40438/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied) refused retirement benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Horse Racing Industry (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1064. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expedite the approval process for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider waiving the means test on foster care families (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 2508. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the State on advertising campaigns related to abortion provision, by year in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; by category, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46460/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I want to raise the issue of the Minister with responsibility for school transport to come before the Dáil to answer questions on the shambles of school transport all over the country. Regarding other events all over the world and indeed in our own country, we as politicians, must unite against them, no matter where we come from in the political spectrum. Independent Ireland has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: We ask for this not alone for Charlie Kirk but for every person or politician who has been attacked or threatened in any way while carrying out their duty. We ask to unite against the threat by standing here together with a minute's silence.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: What about the minute's silence?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: This summer has been one of huge discontent and serious upset for farmers and landowners on the proposed greenway walk from Cork to Kinsale. I begin by saying that a walkway anywhere in our country has to be welcome, but with peaceful negotiations as was done in the world-renowned Sheep's Head and Beara Way. That is the model to do this, not the TII model with its sword over the head called...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I beg the indulgence of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to pay tribute to Fianna Fáil Councillor Patrick Gerard Murphy, who represented Bantry, Castletownbere and Skull electoral area and whose untimely death took place last Friday. His funeral is taking place as I speak this evening. Patrick was a councillor decades ahead of time. He had a great ability to bring people from right across...