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Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: We in Independent Ireland stand firmly behind the implementation of the EPSEN review report recommendations. The time has come for long overdue justice for our children with additional needs. We have seen two decades of delay since the EPSEN Act was passed in 2004, yet here we are with the core rights promised in law, like individual education plans and proper assessments, still...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: Island funding is crucial for many of our islands but its distribution needs closer scrutiny. The Bere Island Projects Group, which covers Bere Island, Whiddy Island and Dursey Island, has three full-time staff and must manage office, utilities and running costs from a budget that saw only a 2.1% increase. This is insufficient for standard cost-of-living requirements, in comparison to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: We need to have statements today on higher education, especially on the confusion regarding fees. Since the announcement, lot of parents have told me that they are having discussions around their tables about whether their child will go to college and whether they can afford to send the child to college or not. That is not a discussion that families should have. Our children and young...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (26 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: 72. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to end the disparity in funding between private and public nursing homes and thus protect the viability of all private and voluntary nursing homes (details supplied). [35007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Health if plans are in place for a designated respite hospital in County Cork (details supplied); and if not, the reason. [35008/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: Laya Healthcare provides many different levels of private health insurance. One of my constituents purchased one of its plans at a substantial cost of €1,470 per year. Regarding cancer care, the policy clearly stated that it covers treatment to stop the spread of cancer and, where possible, to remove it entirely. All of the company's schemes have comprehensive cancer cover and best...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: It is disappointing that the Minister of State seems to be putting in amendments opposing the proposal. If this proposal was worked on, it would create a strong solution in relation to housing. Sometimes I wonder what the reasoning is behind the Government trying to block any good proposal being put forward. I thank Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice, John Campbell and Mark Nolan for putting this...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister and his officials for appearing before us today. I will ask a number of questions. The Minister could jot them down because if I do them one by one, we might not get to the end product. I will read from an email I got a five minutes ago from a gentleman I do not know. About the road network, he wrote: My daughter purchased a touring caravan recently and has visited...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister and I look forward to talking to him about the N71. It has been a hobby horse of mine since I was elected to Dáil Éireann in 2016. They are passing bays, and they are simple. I wish to God someone would just turn a blind eye and let me off for one week because I know people out there who will have six or seven passing bays put into west Cork. It is simple...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: They receive approximately €5,000, but it costs them approximately €20,000 to do what they have to do between insurance and training.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: Yes, the €5,000 is Department funding, but they desperately need to be brought up. There is bound to be a lot of inshore search and rescue out there.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: They came to me, and they are in a bad way. There is more I can say. I would appreciate if the Allihies and the Lyre roads would be reopened to the people who want to use them. Regardless of the use of them, they were being used by the local people. I travelled them the other day. You have to go around. In one situation in Allihies it takes one and a half miles to get to the house...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: Great.

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: Independent Ireland believes we must give all people on the island of Ireland the right to vote in presidential elections. It makes no sense that people who live on the island of Ireland - North and South - cannot vote for the President of Ireland. It would ensure that all Irish citizens, regardless of their residence, have a say in electing the Head of State, fostering a sense of inclusion...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: The recent "RTÉ Investigates" documentary "Inside Ireland's Nursing Homes", which aired on 4 June, showed us all the terrible conditions in some nursing homes in the midlands and Dublin. We were all horrified and shocked by the programme and the way the most vulnerable in our society are being treated - by some. I do not want to tar everybody with the same brush. When we hear what is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: Jennifer Marley is 88 years of age and has been living in rented accommodation-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: In fairness, I never interfere in anybody else's time for questions. I would appreciate if all Deputies would pay the same respect.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: Jennifer Marley is 88 years of age and has been living in rented accommodation in Bantry for the past six years. She has received a notice to quit her rented home as the landlord wants to sell. We are frantically trying to get Jennifer a house she can call her own as she is not suited to sheltered accommodation at 88 years of age. Tomorrow, Independent Ireland will put forward a motion...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: We need a discussion about education, school size, class sizes and the capitation grant. Many schools are under immense pressure. I have been requesting statements in the Dáil. We also need a discussion about immigration and migration with regard to Citywest. I would appreciate if we could find time this week to discuss those issues.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: 796. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs reimbursed (PCRS), per month, for first and second consultations for terminations of pregnancy, from January to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33884/25]