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Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: It was evident from last September and October that we would have a fodder crisis of some sort as silage being cut at the time was of poor quality, if one was lucky enough to be able to cut it. Any politician worth his or her salt would have known at Christmas that a crisis of major proportions was on the way. I watched trailers of silage going through west Cork several times daily. I made...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: They are.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: The Minister is out of touch.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: The Minister might not have seen it, but I have.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: The Minister should not be fooling himself.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: The Minister is deluded and out of touch.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Do not tell me that. I have been speaking with these people for weeks.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: They are dying of hunger-----

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: -----and mismanagement by the Minister.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I wrote to the Minister telling him about this, but he would not answer.

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Farmers will get nothing.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: 421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why painter and decorator apprentices from County Cork must travel as far as Ballyfermot Training Centre, Dublin 10, for the 20 week SOLAS training period (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16065/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland (17 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: 1305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the second round of Fáilte Ireland grants will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16047/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: It is stated in the programme for Government that efforts to increase access to safe, timely care as close to patients' homes as possible will be a priority for the Government. The Parkinson's Association of Ireland recently held a peaceful protest outside the Oireachtas to highlight the many shortfalls in the treatment of those with Parkinson's. Is the Taoiseach aware that there has been...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I am only sharing with Deputy McGrath. I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this important legislation. As technology advances, the laws protecting our private information and data must keep up with that change. We have seen an unprecedented rise in the popularity of the Internet, social media and data issues in the past 30 years since the first data protection laws were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (19 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: 28. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made in the negotiations between the HSE and a company (details supplied) to ensure that the 19 patients currently involved in the clinical trials will have unlimited access to the Respreeza treatment for the remainder of their lives; and if the small group affected by alpha 1 here will also have access to Respreeza. [16242/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Pages 48 and 49 of the programme for Government refer to protecting local services. When Storm Ophelia struck last October, over six months ago, many phone lines were knocked down, as would be expected with any storm, but in quite a number of rural communities many customers were left without a home phone service for up to two months. The residents of Sherkin Island, off Baltimore and...

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I am delighted to speak to the motion and thank my colleagues in Fianna Fáil for bringing it forward. Community work schemes are at the bottom of the Government's list of priorities. This is the Government that set up the anti-rural Turas Nua scheme run by a company that has acted like a vulture in local communities. Communities that have willing workers who want to enter Tús,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: 448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the organic farm grants will be reinstated; if so, the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17823/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I refer to the section in the programme for Government on education and to the issue of teachers' pay. As teachers play a vital role in the education of children, recruiting and retaining new teachers is vitally important. I have met and communicated with many people starting out as teachers in west Cork over recent months. They are under huge pressure due to the very unfair pay system...