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- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: -----and mismanagement by the Minister.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: I wrote to the Minister telling him about this, but he would not answer.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: Farmers will get nothing.
- Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: It was evident from last September and October that we would have a fodder crisis of some sort as silage being cut at the time was of poor quality, if one was lucky enough to be able to cut it. Any politician worth his or her salt would have known at Christmas that a crisis of major proportions was on the way. I watched trailers of silage going through west Cork several times daily. I made...
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: It is too late.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: The Minister of State should go back to his constituents and talk to them.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: They are on the brink.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: Part 12 of A Programme for a Partnership Government relates to agriculture and the marine. Since last autumn a serious fodder crisis has been developing in this country. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Minister were far too slow to react in a meaningful way. The only way to explain this is to say they were asleep at the wheel. This has led to animal deaths being...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: 421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why painter and decorator apprentices from County Cork must travel as far as Ballyfermot Training Centre, Dublin 10, for the 20 week SOLAS training period (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16065/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland (17 Apr 2018)
Michael Collins: 1305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the second round of Fáilte Ireland grants will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16047/18]
- Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)
Michael Collins: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this issue. I will begin the way I began my previous speech on affordable housing in January. In A Programme for A Partnership Government, the Government made a promise in respect of "Providing affordable, quality and accessible housing for our people is a priority for the New Partnership Government". In fact, this is the very first line under...
- HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)
Michael Collins: I am happy to be able to speak on this motion this evening. There has been much controversy over this topic and I have had a number of concerned parents come to me in my constituency clinic in west Cork and here in the Dáil about it. I believe it is up to individual parents to choose whether they want to vaccinate their daughters. It is not fair that the HSE and the Minister for...
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Michael Collins: I concur with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae's comments on festivals. I am involved in a festival committee myself, as most of us here are. I call Ballydehob the festival capital of Ireland. There seems to be a festival there most weekends. They are struggling, like many other towns through west Cork, because the festivals cannot keep going back to struggling businesses to ask for funding. Many...
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Michael Collins: I would just like to raise a few issues in respect of the islands. I represent eight of them in my own constituency in Cork South-West. In fairness, when the Minister of State's name is mentioned there is always a positive response. As the old saying in west Cork goes, call a spade a spade and be straight with a person. Having attended the AGMs of various groups on some of those islands,...
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Michael Collins: Does the Minister of State have any comment on Fastnet Rock?
- Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (28 Mar 2018) Michael Collins: It is still off our shore, however.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2018)
Michael Collins: I refer to pages 85 and 86 of the programme for Government on making older years better years. During the talks on government two years ago many Rural Independent Group Deputies highlighted the difficulties with home help being delivered to our elderly, especially with home help not being available over weekends and bank holidays. The Government agreed in the programme for Government to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: National Transport Authority (28 Mar 2018)
Michael Collins: I will.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: National Transport Authority (28 Mar 2018)
Michael Collins: I will keep it strictly to a few minutes. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I have a few issues to raise and I will start with Local Link Cork because time is of the essence. I am involved in Local Link Cork and I have seen the incredible delivery it has given to the people throughout west Cork. In fairness, the NTA deserves praise for giving sufficient funding to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: National Transport Authority (28 Mar 2018)
Michael Collins: Give me a minute and a half and I will finish.