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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: The people of Ireland voted for abortion a couple of years ago but no one ever thought that there would be 6,666 abortions in 12 months. I met so many people who voted for it who are stunned by this. It is what it is. The discussion today is about late-term abortions. It is about what a new study tells us about late-term abortions and babies born alive after abortion in Ireland. A study,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this Topical Issue debate. The Minister of State says the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, is aware. Is the Minister aware of what is happening, because if he is, the Minister of State has not got a proper response here? This is a very important issue. Babies are being born alive and there is no pain relief being administered to them. The...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: We will. This is related to the fuels, cars and extra costs which have occurred for the ordinary working person. These extra costs are severe for the fishermen, contractors, the hauliers and the farmers, as well as for the ordinary mother and father taking their children to school and going to work every day. The people of rural Ireland - no one else - will have to pay this extra tax. ...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: The funding is coming from this pot and it is not coming back to the people. That is the argument I am trying to put. That is why this amendment has been tabled. It is to get the Minister to understand there is no point in putting a carbon tax in place when the moneys raised through the taxes from fuel are taken back to Dublin to spend on big projects there as well as in senior Ministers'...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: I am delighted to have an opportunity to discuss this amendment, which relates to the carbon tax provision. That tax is nothing other than a direct attack on the people of rural Ireland.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: My contribution will be short. I did mention last night to the Minister, but our discussion was cut short, about pubs whose kitchens are not considered sufficient and they have been forced to close. They will not be entitled to the CRSS funding either because they did sell food previously. It would be fine if they were allowed to open but they are not. Because they sold food that they...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: The Irish fishing industry is hanging at the edge at this time due to Brexit negotiations and the British insistence that all EU trawlers vacate UK waters on 21 December 2020. On top of this, we heard at the agriculture and the marine committee on Tuesday there will be a 5% decrease in white fish fleet fishing next year, which will mainly hit fishermen from Castletownbere in the south west....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: The question was whose fish are being sold?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: The Government is handing over our fish.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: Regarding wet and gastropubs, many publicans have contacted me in recent days. This issue, or something close to the mark regarding what I am explaining, has been brought up already and perhaps it is one the Department could look at. I refer to publicans who had kitchens as such, but these are not deemed kitchens now in respect of allowing them to reopen. They are not entitled to avail of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: The publicans have served the people well throughout the length and breadth of rural Ireland. It is obvious to them that the Taoiseach is protecting the pubs in Dublin. He is afraid to open the pubs in Dublin but he is pointing the finger at every rural pub throughout Ireland. Their businesses are lying in ruin thanks to the Taoiseach. For four years, he was attacking them by backing up...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: They are putting more work on the Garda.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: The Government has the pubs ruined.

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: I fully support this motion. Nurses, student nurses and midwives have worked hard and deserve better. Their conditions are shocking, especially those of student nurses. I am inundated with emails on this issue from student nurses and their families. They work hard and pay their accommodation and student fees. They are front-line workers. Apparently the best thing the Government can do...

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: I too fully support the motion. The attempts by the previous Government, made up of Fine Gael backed by Fianna Fáil - the same crowd - to increase the pension age of 66 to 67 and maybe on to 68 really backfired prior to the general election. There was palpable anger on the doorsteps in my constituency and, I presume, those of other Deputies. People were rightly angered. They may have...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (1 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: I am delighted to show my support here today and discuss this important issue concerning the funding of the greyhound industry. Many people are running scared after last week's debate, where the opening statement and motion from the Social Democrats was very clear. That party did not want to see the increase in the budget for the greyhound industry by the Government this year and also...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (1 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter in relation to the help-to-buy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40267/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Leave (1 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: 503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if paternity leave for the first child has increased from two weeks to five weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40430/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (1 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: 736. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that have been made to ensure a seamless transition for those patients from the State availing of the health treatments under the cross-border directive in Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40223/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (1 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: 822. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is specific funding available for community halls (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40233/20]