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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: At the meeting of the Business Committee last Thursday, I asked that the Minister for agriculture come before the Dáil on the grain crisis in this country at present and the sensational drop in milk prices, which is putting some farmers under serious pressure. I also ask that the Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries comes to the House for statements on the struggling...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach. As he will know from his holidays in west Cork or elsewhere, when there is a huge influx of people, there is a bonus from that but the problem is that the bonus does not last. If you go past a café today, there might be two or three people sitting outside it. It is during the busier times that they make their little bit of profit. The proof is in the experience...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: As we near the budget announcement next week, there is no doubt about the demands on the Government with the cost-of-living crisis, with families and the elderly severely squeezed financially at this time. Tillage and dairy farmers are under enormous pressure. Independent Ireland has also called for the abolition of the carer's means test. One thing Independent Ireland has called for in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 948. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Women and Infants Health Programme pilot system to collect more information about abortion services in Irish maternity hospitals will record the severity of post-abortion complications; if it will capture data on previous abortions; when it will be initiated; whether the data will be published in the Government's annual reports or otherwise...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: The expansion of the fare scheme to include commercial operators, specifically the inclusion of commercial operators in the free public transport initiative for the under-nines, is a must as we go forward. We cannot have a two-tier system, which will lead, if it continues, to private bus operators going out of business. The Minister mentioned the school transport service catering for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: The Coach Tourism and Transport Council of Ireland's pre-budget 2026 submission is a call for fairness, common sense and strategic investment in Ireland's commercial bus and coach sector. This industry is essential. It delivers over 95% of school transport services, supports 11,500 jobs and contributes €620 million annually to the economy. It carries 75 million passengers per year,...

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: Let us speak plainly about the Government's new auto-enrolment pensions scheme, which is due to begin next year. On the surface, it is being sold as a measure to help people save for retirement but after a closer look, it has all the hallmarks of another USC in the making, a so-called temporary charge that workers are still paying 14 years later. Under the scheme, employees and employers...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: Today marked the close of nominations of candidates for the Presidency. Only three people will go forward for the Presidency of this country, which has a population of 5 million. Some very genuine people, one of them being Maria Steen, put their name forward only to be blocked by what can only be called a big party rigged system. This age-old-age process must be scrapped. Independent...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: The fact that more than 5,000 children are currently living in emergency accommodation is a national disgrace. It is 5,000 young lives disrupted, 5,000 children in crisis, and 5,000 futures being shaped by instability and hardship. We in the Independent Ireland party believe the Government must go much further and much faster. It must declare a national housing emergency because that is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of all individuals, community groups, elected representatives, NGOs, or other stakeholders met by his Department’s community engagement team in relation to the use of locations (details supplied) for international protection accommodation since January 2021; and the dates and locations of such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide monthly data on the occupancy of a location (details supplied) since December 2021, showing maximum and average occupancy figures, categories of residents accommodated for example international protection applicants and beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine; the details of services provided onsite; the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of responses received to the expression of interest issued in or around May 2024 regarding the acquisition, lease, or use of properties for International protection accommodation; if locations (details supplied) were referenced in any such responses; and to provide a list of general geographic areas of properties...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to publish or place in the Oireachtas Library the current contracts or service-level agreements governing the use of locations (details supplied) for International protection accommodation; the clauses which exist within these agreements to ensure compliance with statutory requirements including planning permission, fire...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the timelines, assessments, or consultations relating to the decision to make the use of locations (details supplied) for International protection accommodation permanent, and the intended use of associated land included in the purchase; and if the Government will commit that no additional buildings will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether any value for money assessments or independent evaluations have been conducted in relation to the State’s purchase of a location (details supplied); and if he will publish the results. [50556/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has carried out an assessment of the impact of the use on local services including schools, healthcare, and transport of a facility (details supplied); and if he will provide copies of the assessments. [50557/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the inspections which have been carried out by independent bodies such as fire services, local authorities, or HIQA in relation to the use of a facilities (details supplied) as accommodation; and to publish the findings. [50558/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of Garda vetting and training requirements for staff working at facilities (details supplied); and if audits have been carried out to ensure compliance. [50559/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legal basis on which the use of locations (details supplied) proceeded without planning permission or exemption being sought; and if his Department accepts that this sets a precedent for future developments [50560/25]

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: Once again, I speak on the behalf of people who are being crushed under the weight of soaring energy costs. Once again, I am forced to say that the Government is asleep at the wheel. There will be no energy credits this year. Why is that the case? It is because there is no election. That is the reality. The Government conned the electorate last year. That was how it bought votes....