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School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I pleaded at a meeting of the Business Committee recently, maybe two weeks ago, for this debate to take place. I thank the Chief Whip for accommodating it and the Minister of State for attending today. Deputy Gogarty asked who is going to be fired. There has to be significant movement from the Minister of State's end on resolving the crisis. I plead with him in this regard. He is not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: Independent Ireland met the Irish Hairdressers Federation today. The federation is in a crisis or, as it put it, a chronic situation. There is a stark future for many hair salons if they do not get a VAT reduction to 9% in January. Hair salons employ thousands of people and apprentices in this country. Suppliers are now refusing to credit many of these salons. There is a huge crisis....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I am not a member of the committee but this is my first opportunity to attend a meeting. I wish the committee well. It is an important committee as it gives a voice to the fishermen in this country. That has been lacking and it is great that there is a Ministry as well. I thank Deputy Mac Lochlainn for letting me jump ahead of him. I will get a chance to ask questions but I might not get...

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I welcome this debate and thank Deputy Gogarty and his staff for bringing it forward. It is a conversation that is long overdue. Antisocial behaviour is not some abstract issue or statistic on the pages of reports. It is happening in our towns and villages every day of the week. It is happening to shopkeepers who have to watch their shelves while being threatened, elderly people who feel...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: Communities are concerned. These are not racist people but people who have legitimate concerns in their communities. The European Union cannot dictate how many people can come to this small island. Independent Ireland Councillor Linda de Courcy pleaded for answers from this Government, through me, about Citywest a number of months ago. No matter what I asked, I never got an answer until...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I join with my colleagues here today in condemning any threats to the Tánaiste and his family that he has had to put up with which, to say the least, were shocking and sickening. I hope the full rigours of the law will be applied. Independent Ireland will do anything it can on this side of the political divide to help to support him in that regard. I presume the Tánaiste was...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I am glad to be able to speak on this motion. Let me start by saying clearly that I welcome it. I welcome it because every child in this country has the right to an education. That right is not something that should be up for debate. It is in our Constitution. It is in international law, and it is in the heart of every parent who wants the best for their son or daughter. However, what...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I beg the indulgence of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to pay tribute to Fianna Fáil Councillor Patrick Gerard Murphy, who represented Bantry, Castletownbere and Skull electoral area and whose untimely death took place last Friday. His funeral is taking place as I speak this evening. Patrick was a councillor decades ahead of time. He had a great ability to bring people from right across...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: This summer has been one of huge discontent and serious upset for farmers and landowners on the proposed greenway walk from Cork to Kinsale. I begin by saying that a walkway anywhere in our country has to be welcome, but with peaceful negotiations as was done in the world-renowned Sheep's Head and Beara Way. That is the model to do this, not the TII model with its sword over the head called...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: What about the minute's silence?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: I want to raise the issue of the Minister with responsibility for school transport to come before the Dáil to answer questions on the shambles of school transport all over the country. Regarding other events all over the world and indeed in our own country, we as politicians, must unite against them, no matter where we come from in the political spectrum. Independent Ireland has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: We ask for this not alone for Charlie Kirk but for every person or politician who has been attacked or threatened in any way while carrying out their duty. We ask to unite against the threat by standing here together with a minute's silence.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1075. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, which have signed up to the core funding partnership from September 2025 to September 2026. [48254/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1076. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, which are on the Tusla register in September 2025. [48255/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1077. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, in existence before the core funding partnership started in September 2021. [48256/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1084. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of child protection officers working with Tusla in 2023, 2024 and 2025. [48475/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Horse Racing Industry (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1064. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will expedite the approval process for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 1327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider waiving the means test on foster care families (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Collins: 2508. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the State on advertising campaigns related to abortion provision, by year in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; by category, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46460/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: 1501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed extension to the duration of planning permission applies to one-off rural house planning applications coming towards the end of planning permission, as well as large developments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/25]