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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and location of jobs secured by the IDA in the past three years in south-west County Cork, in particular the three peninsulas and eight islands in west County Cork. [50344/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Collins: Will the Minister outline the number and locations of jobs the IDA has secured in Cork South-West in the past three years? I refer in particular to jobs on the three peninsulas and eight islands in west Cork.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Collins: I will focus on Cork South-West, the constituency I represent. It was an area where farming, fishing and the construction industry experienced something of a boom when times were good, but unfortunately all of these industries are going through a very difficult time. Employment is scarce on the ground in Mizen Head, the Beara Peninsula, the Sheepshead Peninsula, Bantry, Skibbereen,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Collins: Page 95 of the programme for Government, under education, says the Government is committed to delivering the school capital investment programme. Three years ago, the people of Bandon were promised a four classrooms and a teachers' resource room in St. Brogan's College to cope with the huge demand for entry to the school. Two years on, not a shovel has been turned, leaving a nightmare for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Collins: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the home care budget for the west County Cork area; and his views on same. [49924/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Collins: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HSE plan for home care for 2020; and his views on same. [49925/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Michael Collins: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the home help plan being rolled out from 2020; if there will be an onus on the caree to pay in part for the home help provided; and the details of same [49926/19]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: Large sections of people from Bandon, Clonakilty, Kilbrittain, Ballinspittle, Ballinadee, Dunmanway, Skibbereen and Goleen - the list is endless - are unable to get on the property ladder and have to resort to paying enormous rents. It has come to the point that renting can often be more expensive than a monthly mortgage repayment. Why is the Government not doing more to promote people to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: The Minister of State said he himself is a beef farmer. I am also a beef farmer and I am surrounded by many beef farmers in very serious financial circumstances. We need the Minister of State to stand up for these farmers. They know that the wrongdoing is happening inside the factory gate. We need that rectified. I am advising many farmers to change their style of farming. Many of them...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: Farmers are very angry. Nobody wants to talk to them, or that is the way they feel, and many are taking matters into their own hands, as they did yesterday. Farmers are outside the gates of Leinster House and have been outside the factories in the last month. They feel they are going nowhere and the anger is growing. The Minister needs to wake up to the reality on the ground, which is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Beef Industry (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: The Minister of State will have his chance shortly. There are practices inside the factory gates that need serious investigation. Will the Minister come out of the bed with Larry Goodman and stand up for the farmers of this country? Will the Minister at least start the process of a serious investigation into what is going on inside the factories? We need to know and beef farmers need the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: Farmers in this country are facing a crisis of enormous proportions. Many of them have looked at other methods of farming. A total of 225 farmers, many of whom are in west Cork, applied for organic status for their farms. There was a significant list of criteria to meet, such as attending courses, joining a certification body and paying planners to draw up plans. Only 55 of these farmers...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: We will at 2.47 p.m. and I will be here.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: 261. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to progress the adoption (information and tracing) Bill 2016 by introducing legislation to allow thousands of adoptees to access their own information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49427/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: I thank Ms Rooney for her presentation. It would be wrong of me not to be truthful. There is great dismay about the RRDF, its distribution and how funds are allocated to rural communities in my own constituency of Cork South-West. We have what many feel are very strong and valuable projects, supported by Cork County Council, which have been refused funding in recent weeks. We were also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: Others did. I accept that the witnesses may have to generalise in their reply. I am only talking about the application because it was shovel ready.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: A speaker did so a while ago and there was no problem. I am living in the community in question, so I know the project well. For a voluntary community organisation to raise €500,000 for a project it believes will be a game changer for the whole peninsula and far beyond, as with the Mizen Head Signal Station, and then get refused without finding out the real reason for refusal leaves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: I mentioned groups that got funding 12 months ago but that have not even turned the shovel yet. What is the follow-through? Why are legitimate groups that have a shovel-ready project or that could turn the shovel within a month not getting funding while those that indicated they were shovel ready but that are no longer shovel ready are getting funding? Is the money taken back from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Committee (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: My thanks to everyone for being here today. Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, and Senator Maura Hopkins. I propose that we go into private session to discuss housekeeping matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Collins: We are in public session. It is proposed that COM (2019) 494 does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed.