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Roads Funding: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Collins: There are approximately 91,000 km of regional and local roads in Ireland. They account for 94% of the country's road network, which carry around 54% of all roads. The Minister, Deputy Ross, was in the Chamber earlier. He inherited a mess made by previous Governments which has left many roads with little or poor funding, especially in areas where political representation was weak. We raised...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Collins: We are here to discuss the issue of a sustainable rural Ireland. I come from a part of the country that is the most rural - the Mizen Peninsula in south-west Cork. Unfortunately, we do not have a rail service and never will. At one time there was a rail line to Schull, but the tracks were pulled up and thrown away. We do not have a Luas service either. Therefore, we depend on having a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Collins: I do not have many questions because unfortunately, the trains do not run my way. My only question, therefore, is whether the company has any plans to bring a rail service back to west Cork, even as far as Bandon. We are in a situation where many people who have to travel to Dublin must travel 80 miles by car before they get to the nearest train station. There was a rail line all the way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Collins: How do we plan for that to happen? We can all say "No" and we will get nowhere in life.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Michael Collins: Earlier Mr. Meade said that the company has plans to extend the network. Where will that be happening? It is not happening in rural Ireland.

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I support the motion. Bus Éireann provides essential services throughout the country and it is important that its future be secured. Proposals to cut the Bus Éireann Expressway service would have a huge impact on the people of Ireland, in particular those living in rural Ireland. Bus Éireann plays an important role by providing rural communities with regular access to towns...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I hope the Taoiseach envisages that the rural plan will be one that will create many jobs. From what I have seen of it, I feel there is a lot of copy and paste in it but our judgement on that will be down the road. The set up of JobPath was poorly thought through, in my own view and the view of many in the community. Schemes like community employment...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: In recent years community and voluntary groups the length and breadth of this island kept the country going when at times it looked like an impossible task. In particular, in rural Ireland when few other supports were at hand, the community and voluntary sector came to the forefront in delivering local services such as meals on wheels, tidy towns projects and maintaining towns and villages...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Cork South-West constituency in 2015 and 2016. [4698/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding which was allocated to the Cork South-West constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016. [4699/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here. [4700/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to have the freestyle libre device, a life-changing device for diabetics, made available through the long-term illness scheme. [3800/17]

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I welcome the Bill. Supporting older people to live and age at home is undoubtedly the best option. There is widespread evidence to indicate that older people prefer to stay in their homes and communities for as long as possible. Admission to long-term, residential care should be seen as a last resort and only be availed of when it is no longer feasible for people to remain in their own...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: In the programme for Government discussions, the Rural Independent Group fought for an increase for workers on the rural social scheme. In the budget, the Government delivered 500 extra part-time jobs for rural Ireland, which was all good news for low-income farmers and fishermen. However, it looks like the devil is in the detail. When the jobs were allocated last Friday, County Cork - the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: Farmers and fishermen in west Cork are struggling badly. I attended an Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, ICMSA, meeting in Clonakilty the other night-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: -----and a man stood up and said that, after taking everything into account, he is earning €2 an hour. I tried to steer him in the direction of the rural social scheme. How foolish I was, because in the area of west Cork, from Macroom right down across in Bandon, out to Castletownbere and the Mizen Head and all in between, there are only 11 extra workers. For the fisherman and the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: -----I ask the Taoiseach to answer me. How are these figures totted up? Real questions hang over the credibility of the entire process.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: Even that is-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: There are no farmers or fishermen in Dublin.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I fully support the tillage farmers' request for compensation as a result of the severe weather conditions that seriously damaged their crops last autumn. In mid-September I visited a number of farms in the Bandon, Kilbrittain, Ballinspittle and Kinsale areas where I saw at first-hand what the weather had done to those grain crops. The crops were sprouting in the field and many of the heads...