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- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: Very, very briefly.
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: I know. Very briefly.
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: A final comment, Minister.
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: We have discussed this issue a lot. How stands the amendment?
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: As full membership is present, we will proceed with the vote.
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: As it is now 4.15 p.m. I propose that we conclude business. We will be in touch with members with a view to agreeing a time to complete the committee's consideration of Committee Stage of the Bill. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: I refer to the section in the programme for Government on education and to the issue of teachers' pay. As teachers play a vital role in the education of children, recruiting and retaining new teachers is vitally important. I have met and communicated with many people starting out as teachers in west Cork over recent months. They are under huge pressure due to the very unfair pay system...
- Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: I am delighted to speak to the motion and thank my colleagues in Fianna Fáil for bringing it forward. Community work schemes are at the bottom of the Government's list of priorities. This is the Government that set up the anti-rural Turas Nua scheme run by a company that has acted like a vulture in local communities. Communities that have willing workers who want to enter Tús,...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: Pages 48 and 49 of the programme for Government refer to protecting local services. When Storm Ophelia struck last October, over six months ago, many phone lines were knocked down, as would be expected with any storm, but in quite a number of rural communities many customers were left without a home phone service for up to two months. The residents of Sherkin Island, off Baltimore and...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (24 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: 448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the organic farm grants will be reinstated; if so, the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17823/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (19 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: 28. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made in the negotiations between the HSE and a company (details supplied) to ensure that the 19 patients currently involved in the clinical trials will have unlimited access to the Respreeza treatment for the remainder of their lives; and if the small group affected by alpha 1 here will also have access to Respreeza. [16242/18]
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: I am only sharing with Deputy McGrath. I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this important legislation. As technology advances, the laws protecting our private information and data must keep up with that change. We have seen an unprecedented rise in the popularity of the Internet, social media and data issues in the past 30 years since the first data protection laws were...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: It is stated in the programme for Government that efforts to increase access to safe, timely care as close to patients' homes as possible will be a priority for the Government. The Parkinson's Association of Ireland recently held a peaceful protest outside the Oireachtas to highlight the many shortfalls in the treatment of those with Parkinson's. Is the Taoiseach aware that there has been...
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: They are.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: The Minister is out of touch.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: The Minister might not have seen it, but I have.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: The Minister should not be fooling himself.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: The Minister is deluded and out of touch.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: Do not tell me that. I have been speaking with these people for weeks.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: They are dying of hunger-----