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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: I will be very brief because most of my questions have already been raised. Perhaps I was not listening properly. There are 17 Local Link companies. In this new service Ms Graham is talking about, is she saying there will be one or two companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: One community and one private.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: My point is that two in the whole of Cork county is just a drop in the ocean.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: It will take two years. Deputy Troy is right that it will be two years before we get that chance again.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: With Brexit approaching, it will no doubt have important consequences for the Irish economy. It is vital that this Government navigates its way through these uncertain waters with its head well screwed on. We are all in the same boat, and it is so important that we work together and listen to the concerns of the people. Brexit poses a number of major challenges for healthcare, especially...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: The prices are dropping.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: Over the past number of weeks, beef farmers have been holding public meetings in west Cork and Kerry, which have been attended by hundreds of people who are trying to see if they can save their livelihoods. Prices for cattle have collapsed and many are working at a loss that they cannot allow to continue. Hundreds of these farmers are angered and frustrated. As they see it, at the very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: Today I raise an issue that has previously been raised, which shows the importance of the issue, namely, the crisis in Irish agriculture with beef sector farmers and what they have gone through and continue to go through basically to try to provide an income on their family farms. All farming sectors will face major difficulties post Brexit but Brexit has come already to the many beef...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: Approximately 170,000 people are employed directly in the agrifood sector and 250,000 people employed indirectly in the wider rural areas in agrifood production. Does the Tánaiste realise the extent of the crisis these farmers are in? I truly do not think he does. Tonight hundreds of farmers will attend the beef plan meeting in the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry. The Tánaiste may...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: The Government should have had a vision. It had no vision for farmers or the fishing people of this country - the people on the ground will say this - to tackle the crisis we are in head on. Will the Tánaiste please tell me what I can offer the farmers at tonight's meeting? What can I offer as a hope or a solution to the disaster they are dealing with, which is not being able to get a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: Will the Tánaiste come with me to Bantry tonight to see the crisis on the ground?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: I am not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: No. I am being honest.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: I will support the motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris. Those across the floor will say, of course, I would, that I am in opposition, but they are wrong. When everyone here were calling on Deputy Fitzgerald to resign in 2017, I did not support that motion. Furthermore, I was the only Deputy in west Cork to make it clear on my local radio station that she had...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: Last week the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Michael Ring, announced more than €60 million for rural communities in the rural regeneration and development fund. When the Taoiseach launched the fund last year he said that it would provide investment and support for rural renewal for suitable projects in towns and villages with a population of less than 10,000....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: That was promised to them the last time and they did not get it this time in Cork South-West. Not one brown cent. We are forgotten people in Cork South-West.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: I am sorry, Ceann Comhairle, but it is an outrage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: I welcome all those who made presentations today and at our last meeting. There were some very interesting presentations. Much of this debate is based on connectivity. If there is no connectivity, particularly broadband but also mobile phone coverage, it is very difficult to run any type of business. It is a major issue in my constituency of Cork South-West. Much of it has to do with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: I know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Michael Collins: I want the Minister back before the committee. This issue is very important.