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Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: Order from that side. I am trying to talk and that gentleman is interfering with my opportunity to talk.

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: We know that. They are worn from doing that. Most of the Fianna Fáil Deputies are green today anyway. We all know that and everybody knows that in my constituency. The bottom line is the carbon tax. The Government will hit people with an increase on 1 June and in September and October. Where will it stop? Will the Minister answer me where it will stop? Can he tell me whether I...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I support Sinn Féin's amendment. It is all fine for the Minister to say he is going to extend the excise reductions until 1 June. I see petrol has gone up six cent, diesel five cent and green diesel one cent. In September, it will go up seven cent, five cent, and one cent, respectively. In October, it will go up 8 cent, 6 cent and 3.4 cent, respectively. That is an astonishing rise...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: Have a look at where some of those funds are going. Perhaps the Minister will sit down with me and I will go through where some of the funds are going. It is the carbon tax.

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: We welcome the changes to the TBESS. However, it is difficult for businesses to go through the whole process of applying for it. That is what many business owners are telling me. My colleague, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, spoke about the energy costs for businesses. It is shocking and it has to be tackled by the Government. Wherever I go, whether to a café or a local shop, I am told by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I welcome the witnesses today. I have listened to what they have had to say I will make a statement with perhaps a few questions mixed into the statement. They have said we have the lowest planting since 1943 and there is a loss of confidence. For a long time, we have been saying it is a nightmare out there. There have been hardly any improvements. Despite public representative support...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: Tonight we debate the homelessness crisis plaguing Ireland. It is a crisis that has been growing for more than a decade with no real solution in sight. It is a crisis that is being ignored by politicians and policymakers in government, who have failed to provide any meaningful action to tackle it. It is a crisis that is destroying the lives of thousands of people across the country. I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (21 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the exact carbon emissions derived per annum from the importation of coal from Colombia to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8786/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (21 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: 177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total carbon footprint of the mining, transport and burning of Columbian coal, versus the total carbon footprint of indigenous natural gas and Corrib gas for the generation of a similar quantity of electricity on a per annum basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (21 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No.70 of 8 February 2023, if further clarity will be provided; if no cost justification for the increased expenditure can be provided, if he will consult with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8836/23]

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I fully agree with Deputy Cullinane's amendment. We have been discussing a lot of issues since we started this debate to do with nursing homes and community hospitals. Patient advocacy services are a channel for people who witness or encounter difficult situations, not in every nursing home, but in some and in some community hospitals. Families came to me to say the standards in community...

Civil Defence Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: We in the Rural Independent Group would like to use this opportunity to commend the Civil Defence volunteers on their selflessness and dedication during the pandemic and other challenging times or emergency situations. The former Minister for Defence, Deputy Simon Coveney, correctly recognised the immense and enormous role played by these volunteers in Ireland's response to the spread of...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I am disappointed that the senior Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is not present for this important motion tabled by the Social Democrats. The motion calls, as ours did last November, for a windfall tax, or what we termed: "an excess profit "solidarity tax", as provided for in EU regulation 2022/1854 upon all/any companies and permanent establishments operating within the oil, gas, coal and...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: The cost of living is pushing people to the edge. In my constituency that is what they tell me in my clinics during the weekends and over the phone, as many more have said tonight. Electricity and fuel are at exorbitant prices. The Government has done nothing to make sure that that does not impact the people. Businesses are struggling. The Government must signal to the tourism and...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: The Minister was dealt a devastating blow in the lead-up to Christmas as the much anticipated Bill was suddenly put on hold, causing embarrassment and humiliation. The former Attorney General, Paul Gallagher, single-handedly scuttled the Bill with a legal opinion that confirmed to many that it was dead in the water. In a scathing report, the Irish Farmers' Journalexposed the shoddy and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: Up to December 2022, two driver testers were based in and working out of Skibbereen. Those two testers were relocated from Skibbereen. A full-time tester was appointed once again at the end of December. However, there is an urgent need for a second full-time tester in Skibbereen to cater for the huge area of west Cork. We have a shocking transport service in west Cork, and everybody...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (14 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in relation to the claim by a person (details supplied) for the rent tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7139/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. He is talking about a huge number of people who have taken up stays in hotels because of the crisis that we are in. These are legitimate people. There are people coming into this country who are undocumented who, as far as I am concerned, should not be in this country. No one should be in this country unless he or she is fully documented. If I was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. I send my sincere sympathies to Deputies Danny and Michael Healy-Rae on the death of their uncle, Dinny Healy-Rae, a hard-working gentleman who left our shores for New Jersey 60 years ago. He was 90 years of age when he passed away yesterday. The question is short. What alternative accommodation does the Minister have in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. The situation in Kerry is very worrying. I have heard a lot about it on Radio Kerry and from Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and other Deputies. It is also very worrying in County Cork, where I come from. The tourism season is starting soon and we are trying to promote tourism and continue to do so. It is quite possible that hotels will want to cease their...