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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...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Summer economic statement. Here we are again, as Deputy Mattie McGrath said. I am looking at the Minister's statement which refers to jobs and the low unemployment rate but behind the spin, the reality is that people are being forced to work for low wages. More are forced out to Turas Nua to doctor the figures. A recent report indicated...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I want to express my utter disappointment that this country's excessive waiting lists have continued since well before I was elected to this House. People of all ages are having to wait for unacceptable lengths of time. My offices are inundated with people who are suffering with medical conditions and are looking for help because they have been on waiting lists for excessive periods of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: The Arts for All: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)

Michael Collins: I thank the Chairman, the clerk and everyone else involved for facilitating all of the groups in coming here to educate us. Sometimes we live in a bubble and do not know what is happening in the real world. It is the real world that brings most of us here. The evidence given by so many of the groups has been an education for me and all of us. The McAuley Centre is a place I would really...