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Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: As several colleagues mentioned, it is important to look at this issue from both sides. We cannot talk about housing without talking about the plight of some landlords. They are not all unscrupulous. In fact, many of them are being very fair. In looking at the housing crisis, we must reverse back to where the mistakes were made and the fact is there were a shocking number of mistakes....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: My questions are the same as Deputy Carey's question. It is a hugely important issue in each constituency, as the Taoiseach is aware. The early childhood care and education programme was introduced in 2010 at €64.50 capitation grant per week per child. By 2018 it had increased to €69, where it stands today. If capitation had kept pace with inflation, it should be at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of families that are giving up fishing due to the failed delivery of a third Irish decommissioning scheme; and if 50 or 60 families will lose their right to catch fish in Irish waters (details supplied). [53530/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: The Minister stated publicly that the task force he set up resulted in the industry asking him for a third Irish decommissioning scheme. Could he tell me how many families are giving up because the Government has failed to deliver? Is it 50 or 60 families losing their right to catch Irish fish in Irish waters? Could he answer exactly how many?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: As the Minister is aware, I did not support this decommissioning because I always felt there were enough Irish fish in Irish waters for Irish fishermen to fish. They wanted to fish their way out of the problems they had. All they ever asked for was a fair share of the quota, which has been denied to Irish fishermen for many years, not just recently. The Minister publicly welcomed the EU...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: I will never support a scheme that takes Irish fishermen out of Irish waters. I could not do that. It would not be right of any Irish politician to do anything like that. The Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation was opposed to this as well, and it is a fishing organisation. I spoke to the Minister at the committee meeting on energy costs and fuel costs. The fishermen who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: I am, because I know what will happen. They are walking away from fishing. They have no choice. I am not supporting it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: Is there enough-----

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: Affordable and reliable public transport is a lovely idea and a lovely dream but it is not happening in rural Ireland. I have had many debates with the Minister for Transport as to why it is not and he says that he does not have the money but suggests that something from Castletownbere into Bantry and Kilcrohane in west Cork might be possible. It is a matter of kicking the can down the...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: The budget was a missed opportunity for many young people who are in a middle road-type situation. Fuel is hitting them very hard. They will see very little increases after the budget, only certain pain. When the Minister was announcing the budget here in the House and when I first looked at the document, to the naked eye the Minister was going to give a decrease in the cost of fuel, but...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52811/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: 723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the Government has not provided a fuel subsidy to Irish fishermen given that the French and Spanish governments have done so for their fishermen. [53531/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: My questions are based on the Minister's opening statement. He said these past few years have been particularly challenging for our fishing industry. In addition to the continuing fuel crisis, the impacts of the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and the quota transfers under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement are still having a very negative effect. These are the Minister's words but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: Okay. I have just one other question. There is an energy rebate for ordinary households and businesses but the fishermen see no way forward for a rebate. Is that being considered because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: -----their energy bills are far more than most, to be quite honest?

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: I do not think I have named anybody here yet, thank God.

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: Yes, but I have not mentioned anybody by name.

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: I will not mention anybody's name. I well know the rules and regulations here. This morning, after 14 years, she got a call to say the bank was repossessing her home - the home she owns and lives in with her child. This is only one of many stories. There is much more involved in the case than I have the time to relate to the Minister of State here today. The banks and others need to...

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: I know that, but I am engaging here and the least the Minister is supposed to do is to engage with Deputies when they are speaking. When I was elected to Dáil Éireann I believed I was entitled to that much anyway, but if I am not, that is fine. If the Acting Chairman thinks differently-----

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: I sincerely hope he does because I want to know whether he knew about the banks becoming cashless. Did the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, or the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, know about it? Nobody in this Dáil has come before the people to say they knew and they made a mistake. The decision to try to make AIB cashless was reversed but the it was a shocking decision in the first place.