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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: I thank Senator Warfield and Deputies Canney, Danny Healy-Rae and Ó Cuív for their questions. I am going back to the witnesses for their final round of comments. I realise that many of them have a long journey back.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: Did Mr. McDonald want to say anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: That is perfect. I call Mr. Downes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: I am delighted that there is a fellow Cork person here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: I thank Ms Logue. That concludes our consideration of the matter. I thank the representatives of the Galway International Arts Festival, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Kilkenny Arts Festival and Listowel Writers Week for their assistance.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: Page 118 of the programme for Government, under the heading of agriculture and the marine, states: "Our existing systems to ensure producers and consumers can be assured of quality from farm to fork will be strengthened and maintained to the highest of standards." A recent report from DG SANTE, the health and safety arm of the European Commission, found that many of the post mortem...
- Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on today's motion regarding the establishment of a special joint committee on climate action. This is all well and good if the committee addresses the issues and concerns of the people head on and not become just another junket layer of bureaucracy. I listened to previous speakers who attacked the agriculture sector in respect of climate change. Farmers...
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: On page 119 of the programme for Government, under the heading "Seafood and the Marine", the Government states it is committed to the development of the inshore fisheries sector. Hundreds of people attended a peaceful protest in Bantry last Sunday to do all they can to stop mechanical harvesting of 1,860 acres of kelp off the stunning Bantry Bay. BioAtlantis wrote to the Department last...
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Michael Collins: This licence was granted in 2009.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: Page 97 of the programme for Government promises: "We will double the number of apprenticeships to provide a total of 31,000 places by 2020". However, employers throughout west Cork are telling me that there is a scarcity of skilled tradespeople on the ground. Will the Government overturn the decision in the 2014 budget to impose the new pro ratastudent contribution, and reinstate the State...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: The Tánaiste was not even here for the debate.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: Has the Minister set aside the provision for roads like those in west Cork? The millions required by Transport Infrastructure Ireland would lead to saving lives.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: It is not.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: It is a bit unfair as I have not spoken very long on this matter at all.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: I understand but with the recommittal of a Bill, I understood the speaking arrangements were changed and there would be no time restriction.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: I have not yet had the opportunity to be repetitious.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: I have questions on a number of matters and I have sought the answers since before Christmas. I have not got answers to some of them, although I accept the Minister has addressed others. With respect to waiting times for driving tests, the worst wait in Ireland is in Cork, which is 17.4 weeks. How can the Minister consider in any way, shape or form that this part of the Bill was...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: What about rural Ireland?
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: He is looking after his own constituency.
- Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)
Michael Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. We need to examine the overcrowding in our prisons. Figures from yesterday indicate that five of our 12 prisons are over capacity. Currently, all Irish prisons hold close to 4,000 prisoners and our main remand prison in Cloverhill is now at 97% capacity. This is an urgent matter. We have a growing population and yet our prisons are nearly...