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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-----

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...