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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I am delighted to get the opportunity to contribute for two minutes. This is a holy mess and, to be honest, everyone in the country knows it is a holy mess. They were all talking about it last night. It is not of the Minister's making but, sadly, the finger will be pointed at him and as Deputy Danny Healy-Rae said, he can be damn sure the Minister, Deputy...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I have spoken on this issue on many occasions. I again ask the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, to consider standing back on this issue. The nation is watching very closely and they saw the shambles that went on here last night. If his Government has its hand tied behind its back by the Minister, Deputy Ross, I plead with Sinn Féin to release the ties of the Fine Gael Ministers and TDs and...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Michael Collins: Deputy Michael Healy-Rae said earlier that he spoke to people. I did the same. Maybe we might be taking the wrong direction. It is good to get direction from the people who elected us. The feeling on the ground is to stop now while the Minister is ahead. It is becoming more evident as the hours go on that this is a farcical Bill. I refer to fit and proper board of management experience....

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Michael Collins: That is not the road I would expect them to travel. However, it looks like it is. I would not support the elite to be getting jobs. That is exactly what we have been trying to clean out for many years. The nonsensical nod-and-wink style of politics. As Deputy McGuinness and Deputy Mattie McGrath said, there is a woman in jail for three weeks and no one cares. That is what we should be...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I call on the other party supporting and keeping it rolling on to pull the plug now in time.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Michael Collins: We did not see them in here in the last week.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Michael Collins: Stop protecting the Minister, Deputy Ross.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Michael Collins: The fact is the Judiciary-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Michael Collins: It is all about the Minister, Deputy Ross. It is time to wake up and see what he has done.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Michael Collins: The Minister certainly did not understand it either and he put it forward.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2018)

Michael Collins: It is a dog's dinner. The whole country is telling them that.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Michael Collins: On page 59 in the programme for Government the incoming Government promised to update the national eye care plan and also promised to evaluate the Sligo cataract surgery model, which had been raised in the talks for Government by the Rural Independent Group. I put it to the Taoiseach that the reality in the constituency of Cork South-West is that people are waiting years for cataract...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Michael Collins: What is the Taoiseach's response?

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I support this Bill to give students in student specific accommodation under licence the full protections of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, including access to the Residential Tenancies Board and inclusion in the rent pressure zones. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. I understand that it is an extremely expensive time for parents of college students. We need to look...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I would like to share time with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae.

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I support this important Bill, which seeks to provide for greater security of tenure and rent certainty for tenants. It has been confirmed that a majority of those who are becoming homeless are from the private rented sector. Many of my constituents in places like Bantry, Baltimore, Skibbereen, Kealkil, Clonakilty, Rosscarbery, Bandon and Kinsale, to name just a few, are unable to get on...

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I will start by declaring a conflict of interest. I have been on the board of management of a Catholic school in west Cork for the past number of years and I was chairperson of the same board. I cannot understand why people come into this House and point fingers at the religious orders in regard to schools. I have been ten years involved in the same school in Schull in west Cork, but not...

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I am delighted to be able to thank God. The child came first, and I have first-hand experience of that. That has been the case during the time I have been a chairperson and a member of the board. The child always came first. I would like to calculate the amount of time we spent talking about religion on that board in ten years but I can safely say it did not take up too many hours because...

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I listened to Deputy Paul Murphy who talked about the gentleman who was a Hindu and who had been asked to have his child baptised. There are such cases which are wrong, but the biggest issue is overcrowding which we are trying to address in the context of baptisms. Schools are in a dreadful position where there is overcrowding and are looking at the criteria. Feeder schools and non-feeder...

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Michael Collins: I spoke earlier on other amendments.