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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.

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

Michael Collins: A con job.

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

Michael Collins: It was a feasibility study. The Deputy should clarify that.

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

Michael Collins: There was an application involving €300,000 from the Minister's Department for a feasibility study on Union Hall. His Department has refused to give that money to the people of west Cork and to Union Hall pier. The Minister himself went down to Union Hall after the Brexit disaster that he played a massive part in and did nothing for them.

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

Michael Collins: What about people of west Cork? It is the smaller fishermen who are lying in ruins. There is the larger fleet and the small fishermen.

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

Michael Collins: If he provokes people, he will get a response.

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

Michael Collins: On a point of order, I would like the Minister to apologise to Cork County Council for the comments he made earlier that the council never applied for funding for the pier at Union Hall. It did so under the Minister’s guidance. When he came down to Union Hall and was having nice meals, or whatever he said, he advised the council to apply for scoping and feasibility funding, which it...

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

Michael Collins: Nothing this year.

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

Michael Collins: Nothing this year. The €12 million was refused.

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

Michael Collins: I will clarify that for the Minister.

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

Michael Collins: I will come back to the Minister on that. He was given a plan when he was in Union Hall.

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

Michael Collins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: - the Irish inshore fleet comprises approximately 91 per cent of all our fishing vessels, and supports between 2,500 and 3,000 full-time jobs in rural and coastal communities; - the National Inshore Fishermen's Association, the representative body for the small inshore fishermen in Ireland, have been highlighting their serious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: I will give a short opening statement followed by questions and answers. I hope the Ministers will not play down the clock. I certainly will not. The proposed deal relates to the potential acquisition of 100,000 ha of forestry across the country by Gresham House, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange. That company has been in existence since 1857. Is it any wonder that its share...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister. When did the Minister of State become aware of the deal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: The Minister of State did not know about it in March 2021.