Results 761-780 of 3,639 for speaker:Michael Collins

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...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Sinn Féin for this motion. I fully support any calls for specific measures to provide mortgage interest relief for homeowners. For example, a scheme could and urgently should be designed to provide temporary relief for homeowners facing financial hardship, or to help first-time buyers get on to the property ladder. The scheme could also target...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (8 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied) relating to broadband in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6063/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (8 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: 409. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention and-or that of his Department and the HSE has been drawn to incidences where women requested abortion-pill reversal treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5820/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (8 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: 490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the over-population of Sika deer in the Glengarriff area; the steps he plans to take in relation to the issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5833/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: Fuel excise duty reductions are due to expire later this month. When they were announced last year, they took 20 cent per litre off petrol, 15 cent off diesel, and 2 cent off green tractor diesel. Families are struggling. Many of them are on the edge and sick with worry at the end of every week about where they will find the money to pay exorbitant energy bills, or pay to put food on the...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: The lack of mental health services in Ireland is having a significant impact on people with mental health problems. Many people must wait months or even years to access services, which can be detrimental to their mental health and well-being. Due to a shortage of mental health professionals, many children are not able to access the care they need when they need it or are only able to...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: We are going to lose the beds permanently. The decision has been made and it was not appealed. There has been a continuous lack of investment in the mental health unit in Bantry hospital by government after government. We are going to lose three beds permanently now because the appeal is not going to go ahead.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: The Minister of State will be the first person I will praise in west Cork if that is the case, but that is the announcement that the HSE made. I was told the HSE would appeal it, but the decision was not appealed when it went to court and now we are left in a situation where there will be a reduction in beds.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: The Minister of State should make an announcement or put it in writing that there will be no loss of beds in Bantry General Hospital mental health unit. If she does, she will be a hero.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider keeping the VAT rate at 9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3879/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: I remember meeting with the Minister, and she is most welcome at any time, in west Cork which is the tourism capital of Ireland as far as I am concerned. We have fantastic hotels. I have met with the sector. It includes such hotels as the Celtic Ross Hotel, Fernhill House Hotel, the Emmet Hotel, the Parkway Hotel, the Schull Harbour Hotel and the Blue Horizon Hotel in Kinsale. The bottom...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place to give relief to the hotel sector at this time with the ongoing energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3880/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: What plans is the Minister's Department putting in place to give relief to the hotel sector at this time with the ongoing energy crisis?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for her reply. Many of the hotels in west Cork are closed at present due to energy costs and overheads. Those who are not housing refugees, and many hotels in west Cork do not, cannot afford to open their doors. I am pleading on their behalf. I see that they are closed Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. It is an astonishing situation we find ourselves in....

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: This is an important Bill. Anything that relates to the security of post offices is important. The post office sector has gone through quite a lot in recent years, with little Government aid or attention. I see the same in my village, Goleen, which lost the post office few months ago. Only two or three weeks after losing it, the now Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, who was a Minister at the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: I respect that the Taoiseach may not have to hand all of the information relating to the west Cork ambulance service. I appreciate the Taoiseach's offer that the Minister will engage on this matter. Staffing is an issue. The staff the ambulance service has at the moment are exhausted. Some are walking away. I have spoken to them personally. There were great ambulance staff who just...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: I wish to raise serious concerns we have about the ambulance service in west Cork. West Cork has four ambulances: one based in Clonakilty; one based in Castletownbere, one based in Bantry General Hospital; and one based in Skibbereen. I am reliably informed that, on most days and from early morning to late at night, the Clonakilty ambulance is in Cork city and county, not in west Cork,...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: He told them to apply for this funding and they did, but he refused to give it to them afterwards. Shame on the Minister and shame on Fianna Fáil. That is what they have done.