Results 81-98 of 98 for garda speaker:Michael Collins

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: ...Bay. It will have a knock-on effect on the Beara Peninsula as well as the Sheepshead Peninsula. An advertisement for a licence was first seen in the local Southern Starand on a note at the local Garda station on 12 December 2009, stating the intention to occupy an area of the foreshore to harvest specific seaweed types. No one really understood what it meant. No information of it being...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Michael Collins: ...plan is to rush new Covid-19 enforcement laws and powers through the Dáil, and it is nothing short of draconian. There are two aims to the Bill: to provide additional enforcement powers to An Garda Síochána to shut down bars and restaurants; and to give gardaí the powers to go into every house in the country. What in the name of God are we doing? We in the Dáil...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Michael Collins: ...of this country. As I said, we supported any legislation that was brought before us in the past few months. I personally feel that any legislation brought before us should be strong enough to enforce, if the gardaí are there to enforce it, but even the Garda representative body has made it very clear they are not overly supportive of this because they do not have the manpower to...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (1 Dec 2016)

Michael Collins: ...to ask the Minister a straight question and I want a straight answer. What has the Government and its predecessor got against the people of west Cork because it has been hit repeatedly? We have lost our Garda stations. We have lost some post offices. Our banks have been closed and now our Leader programme, the only shining light we had in west Cork, is gone. I pleaded with the...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Michael Collins: ..., if an insurance claim is taken to court and the evidence presented shows it to be fraudulent, the Director of Public Prosecutions needs to prosecute these fraudsters. There is an opportunity here for the Garda and an insurance fraud squad to be employed to investigate these fraudsters. It is high time we stopped allowing these fraudulent claims to continue. I have not seen this...

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Michael Collins: ..., address the differences in rural and urban services and the need to make provision for both. We must be aware that it is vital for rural communities to retain their small schools, shops, Garda stations, post offices, banks, community hospitals, rural transport and other vital services. I envisage that the Bill will look at ways to secure the future of these services and ensure the...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Michael Collins: ...lose its post office. The Mizen peninsula, where Ballydehob sits, has seen two banks it had closed by the previous Government, leaving no day-to-day bank service within 40 km for many. They have seen Garda stations closed by the previous Government. Local pubs, shops and businesses have closed in the past few years. Cuts to schools' capitation grants have seen our schools struggle for...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: ..., Drinagh, Drimoleague, Curragh, Ballydehob, Crookhaven and Durrus. That is to name only a few of the areas affected by diminishing populations. We have seen the closure of schools, post offices, Garda stations and local businesses and we need to take action to bring people into these areas. Most of them have wonderful community playgrounds and community centres. Let us promote what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Michael Collins: ...will not survive if the planning laws are not relaxed a little. I accept that the IFA has been strong on this issue down through the years. Reference was made to the CEDRA report. Many rural post offices and Garda stations have been closed. The two banks on the peninsula where I live have closed. We no longer have a bank in the area which means people have to travel up to 25 miles to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Community Development: Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (15 Dec 2016)

Michael Collins: ...I am passionate about my people and about west Cork I am passionate to deliver and this is not delivery. This is a blow to west Cork beyond all belief. It is true in the previous Government that Garda stations, banks and post offices closed, there were massive farm penalties and fishermen were thrown out of their waters, so to speak, but the bottom line was that we had a shinning light,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Michael Collins: ...€20 on top of their welfare payment. Such engagement was good for their mental health but they are now being sent home and frightened out of their wits. It is a vicious circle. The closure of Garda stations has affected communities throughout the country, including in west Cork. Together with the closure of banks and post offices, there has been a particularly negative impact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: ...town, go home and leave Paddy there for an hour or two and then come back and collect him again. I presume it will be a fiver a whip or something like that. How is Johnny going to do that? He will have to be Garda vetted and I presume he will have to have some special type of insurance. Will ordinary car insurance do? Will he get a once-off grant? That would sort the issue for this...

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Michael Collins: ...an offence under this legislation. Another amendment states, "the execution of a warrant shall only be authorised between 12 noon and 5pm on weekdays (excluding public holidays)". It also states: "An Garda Síochána shall be permitted to intervene by issuing a caution and/or arresting, where assault or battery (by anyone present) is exercised with any level of excessive force."...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2016)

Michael Collins: ...provides a large range of services. As well as the standard postal services and welfare payments, post offices now provide Passport Express, National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, savings, Garda fixed fines, dog licences, television licence renewal, toll tag top-up, bin collection payment, tax payments, including local property tax, LPT, mobile top-up and some banking services. The...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Collins: ...asked me not to be causing problems that are not there. When I passed on her so-called advice to a certain student in west Cork, the student then travelled to her accommodation. The bus was stopped en routeby the Garda and they severely reprimanded the student and told her they had better not catch her on the bus again. The Minister of State obviously did not have her facts right. That...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Collins: ...their farm practices. They went from the Mizen Peninsula to a place near Bandon and were held up on the way back and given fines of €100 each. There was no appeals system in place for them. The gardaí in question got that 100% wrong. It was very unfair that these people were penalised to that extent because €300 is a lot to a farmer. They were able to identify where...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Michael Collins: ...was not a problem. We have our own bus, which did very well. It brought out the elderly people from their homes to meet with other people. We are sad to say today we close the bar as we find the Garda checkpoints the morning after are very unfair. It has frightened these people in the rural area even to drive to mass on a Sunday morning. They do not know and nor do I know if they are...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Michael Collins: ...any changes to this report is through the courts as the city council and the local government implementation oversight group have so far refused to accept any alternative reports or recommendations to the Mackinnon report. In recent years, rural Ireland has been hit time and again through loss of services, facilities and its general identity. Cork County Council and its residents have...