Results 901-920 of 3,754 for speaker:Michael Collins
- 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.
- 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: How were the Minister and Minister of State consulted and informed about the deal, formally or informally?
- 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: How was the Minister informed?
- 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: What did the Minister do, if anything, after becoming 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: Was this issue-----
- 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: Was this issue discussed at Cabinet level at any time?
- 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: Did the Minister or the Minister of State give any indication to the CEO or board of Coillte after they were told about this deal on 16 December that they had an issue with it?
- 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: Why did the Minister not instruct Coillte when he became aware of the deal to at least pause it pending an independent review?
- 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 only have two questions left. Why did the Minister not instruct the CEO of Coillte to pause the deal when they met last week pending a full review incorporating socioeconomic and cost-benefit analyses on behalf of the taxpayer?
- 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: We accept that Coillte is not selling off the taxpayer's woodlands, but if a semi-State company has to team up with a UK-based private investment group to plant new forest, it raises legitimate questions about what Coillte is doing and why we should have a State forestry agency at all.
- 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: Under the Forestry Act 1988, the Minister has powers and the company "shall comply with every direction given to it under [section 38]." Unfortunately, the Minister has not used this power. This section needs to be read clearly by the Minister and Minister of State.