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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...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: Like Deputies Michael and Danny Healy-Rae I have spoken to Ms Noreen O'Neill. This lady is climbing Croagh Patrick, one of the highest mountains in the country, to highlight the efforts she is making to get medicinal cannabis for her child. Medicinal cannabis must be rescheduled in Ireland. As it stands, it is classified as a drug with no medicinal properties. Until this situation...

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: The Deputy misled the people.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I continually-----

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: Deputy Funchion cannot tell us what we were going to do.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: Deputy Funchion is misleading again.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: Deputy Funchion was continuously on Twitter - she should stop playing with phones if she does not know how to use them.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: Where is Sinn Féin again tonight? Only three of its Deputies are here on such an important issue.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I am continuously meeting with people in my own constituency-----

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I am continually meeting-----

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I am sorry.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: We know it well, sure we were here.The were more of us here than there were Sinn Féin Deputies.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I am continuously meeting with people in my own constituency area who come to me pleading for help as they are afraid they will not get a special needs assistant for their child. It is a disgrace that any parent has to go through this stress to provide an adequate education for his or her child. We will not stand for it on this side. Others may, but we will not. I have had many school...

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I thank Mairead McGrath for helping us put this motion together. My colleagues and I in the Rural Independent Group have called on the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Richard Bruton, to acknowledge a lack of job security for special needs assistants and to look at the obstacles preventing the full participation of special needs assistants in schools. We have to ask if our...

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: Shame on that Deputy. The comments were shameful as neither I nor the other two Deputies mentioned voted against any special needs provision. All I wanted was for the Deputy, and her fellow Deputies, to come here and to debate such a very important issue that was going through the Dáil without question.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach. I appreciate he may not be fully aware of this circumstance, but I saw the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, giving him plenty of prompts when I was speaking earlier. I wish he gave him plenty of prompts over the past 12 months because that is what was needed but, unfortunately, that is not the case. The Taoiseach said a legal case is being brought but I ask the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: Is the Taoiseach aware that we are on the verge of one of the biggest experimental marine destruction journeys in Ireland, the UK and Europe? I am referring to the proposed mechanical harvesting of kelp in Bantry Bay, which is supposed to commence on Wednesday next. Last week, the company carrying out this mechanical harvesting issued a letter to the Department of Housing, Planning and...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: In the programme for Government, under crime and prevention, the Government promised to reopen some Garda stations which had been closed by the previous Government. On 19 December 2017, the Government announced the reopening of six Garda stations, including Ballinspittle Garda station in my constituency. When will Ballinspittle Garda station in west Cork be open to the public? People are...