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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for reducing class sizes in Ireland for 2024, given that class sizes in Ireland are significantly larger than the majority of other European countries.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31911/23]

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: At the very beginning of the Minister of State’s speech, to which I listened in my office, he mentioned honesty. Of course, everybody else here decided to talk about agriculture afterwards. Honesty is the best policy. Irish Water, which is responsible for public water services, has not provided clear action plans or timeframes for improving treatment in approximately one third of...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: Donkey and cart farmers will not survive. This is the real world.

Culling the National Herd: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — farmers are angered by the Government's plans for tougher measures that will drastically reduce emissions in the agricultural sector, leading to downsizing and closure of otherwise viable farms; — Ireland has a proud tradition of clean and green grassland agricultural production, with farms often being managed by the same...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: I welcome Tadhg Daly, chief executive of Nursing Homes Ireland, and other visitors in the Gallery who run family nursing homes the length and breadth of our country. Nursing homes all over the country, including west Cork, have serious concerns about the ongoing crisis in the funding of nursing home care under the fair deal scheme. For what is now a long-standing basis, private and...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: We support the motion before us, as we have done on each previous occasion it has been before us. On the whole, the Special Criminal Court has been an effective tool against subversive elements and, in recent years, against organised criminal gangs. For this reason, it is worth retaining. However, the case for its retention is far from unanswerable. We need to be clear that the ultimate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the ICT grant to primary schools for the current academic year has been withdrawn; her plans to restore this vital grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30584/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: 720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of queries logged with HSE MyOptions (including phone calls and chat queries) in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023, categorised in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31099/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: 721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of initial consultations for termination of pregnancy services that were provided by general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31100/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: 769. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he is making on expanding the national heel prick test; the number of diseases that babies born today in Ireland are currently being tested for; when a decision will be made to include spinal muscular atrophy in newborn screening (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31338/23]

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: Apprenticeships are a huge issue and we must provide encouragement in any way we can to make sure that apprenticeships are available to people. Many will have noticed the difficulty in hiring the services of skilled tradespeople such as electricians, plumbers or carpenters for home repairs, which are also in very short supply. There are, however, so many areas where we see young people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: I am calling for immediate ministerial intervention to help young people on the Beara Peninsula who have intellectual disabilities. They used to have daily transport to CoAction's rehabilitative training, RT, education programme in Bantry provided to them. From tomorrow, though, they will no longer have that transport due to lack of funding. The current transport provider is willing and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: The farmers know the truth.

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: The youth justice strategy for the period 2021 to 2027, produced by the group chaired by the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, is presented as a comprehensive plan to address youth crime and provide support for vulnerable young individuals; however, a critical examination of it raises concerns about its effectiveness and potential implications. We can produce all the documents we want...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: I heard the Minister's opening speech and I had to pinch myself as the rural Ireland I live in is totally different from the one the she spoke about. Yes, there are a few green shoots but they are few. Funding for west Cork has been little and spread well apart. Our roads in west Cork are totally under-funded. Two bypasses in Bandon lie undone for decades. A bypass of Inishannon and...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: For your own backyard.

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: For your own backyard; that is all.

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: We are told there is near full employment in the country but are the people who are employed - young people in particular - being treated properly? I have grave doubts about that. I also have serious concerns about putting an extra burden on the employer. The employer cannot take the hit every time we stand up here in the Chamber. Some feel the employer should take every hit and that they...

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion tonight. I thank the fire brigade personnel who were in the Public Gallery but who have walked out in disgust at the Minister's speech which was shocking, after promising that he would come forward with something tonight. I thank the firefighters in west Cork, Schull, Castletownbere, Bantry, Dunmanway, Bandon, Kinsale and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: I attended a public meeting at Shannonvale last night. It is a little village and picturesque community just north of Clonakilty. We had a packed attendance in the meeting room in Phairs Pub where we listened to people talking about the raw sewage and the sewage crisis in their town. This means they have raw sewage in the community garden so children cannot play there. They also tell me...