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Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: It ill behoves anybody to come to the Chamber and question our mandate. I was elected by the public just as any Member on the Government side of the House was so elected. It is not a democratic stance to question anybody's legitimate mandate. On the motion, HSE west has had a reduction of 5% in its budget. What has the Minister of State got against the people of Limerick and the mid-west?...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: He should also have defended him as a fellow medic, but mainly because he is an employee of the Minister.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: The Minister has an obligation as that consultant's employer to protect his position. He highlighted a legitimate concern on behalf of the public in the mid-west and it ill behoved the Minister not to step up to the plate.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: The Minister should protect the people who work for him.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: What about the 47.5 posts?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: What is being proposed?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: What is the Minister of State going to do about the vacancies?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: The number is 16.5 for maternity services.

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (23 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his position on EU reforms aimed at providing for greater transparency and accountability in the oil and gas industry, specifically his statement made to Transparency International Ireland that it is unconvinced that the EU audit and accounting directive proposals for country-by-country and project-by-project reporting are...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (23 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a person with an intellectual disability and in the care of State psychiatric services and is living in their own house is liable to pay the household charge. [10555/12]

Written Answers — Compliance Reports: Compliance Reports (23 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not given the go-ahead to the Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption to publish its third round Compliance Report on Ireland, which focuses on criminalisation of corruption and transparency of party funding and was adopted on 9 December 2011; and when he intends to allow it to be published. [10445/12]

Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: What is the publication date for the social welfare and pensions Bill? Is there promised legislation in regard to the non-payment of the household charge and attaching non-payment to deductions from social welfare payments? Did the Taoiseach or one of his Ministers promise that during the debate? Is it in train?

Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Scrap Friday.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: He is delighted with the phrase.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: We will come to that in a minute.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important debate on the future direction of our State assets. I have considerable respect for the Minister's honesty. I urge him to ask his Labour Party ministerial colleagues to desist from pinning his agenda of selling State assets on Fianna Fáil. The facts speak for themselves. The Minister for Finance admitted on many occasions in response...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: We have a golden share in Aer Lingus-----

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: -----and we have a number of members on the board. We in the mid-west region need to retain the landing slots. In 2007 my part of the country went into a convulsion because we lost the Shannon to Heathrow route. The Minister's party colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, stated at the time: We have had enough of the flowery sympathetic speeches. We want the Government to...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Why did the mid-west region lose out to County Louth for the PayPal investment? It is because the Government is not prioritising the mid-west. As a Deputy representing the mid-west, I feel the Government is resiling from its responsibility. In order to keep the mid-west's competitive edge, we need to keep the Shannon to Heathrow route and the only way to keep it is by maintaining our 25%...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Why is the Minister rubbishing it now? A few years ago when his party was in opposition it nearly brought the House down over the Shannon to Heathrow route, with which I agreed because it was critical. I was glad the then Government worked hard and put in board members, when they did not have them previously, and restored the Shannon to Heathrow route. It is incumbent on the Minister to...