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Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (23 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his position on EU reforms aimed at providing for greater transparency and accountability in the oil and gas industry, specifically his statement made to Transparency International Ireland that it is unconvinced that the EU audit and accounting directive proposals for country-by-country and project-by-project reporting are...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (23 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a person with an intellectual disability and in the care of State psychiatric services and is living in their own house is liable to pay the household charge. [10555/12]

Written Answers — Compliance Reports: Compliance Reports (23 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not given the go-ahead to the Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption to publish its third round Compliance Report on Ireland, which focuses on criminalisation of corruption and transparency of party funding and was adopted on 9 December 2011; and when he intends to allow it to be published. [10445/12]

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: That explains a lot.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: I compliment the Acting Chairman on his chairing of this session which is very fractious.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Perhaps seven or eight minutes. We must bear in mind that every party in this House contributed to the state of the health services today. That applies even to the Minister of State's party. Since the foundation of the State, successive Governments neglected the health infrastructure, in both physical and human resources, and the patient suffered. It is a little rich to come into the...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: It ill behoves anybody to come to the Chamber and question our mandate. I was elected by the public just as any Member on the Government side of the House was so elected. It is not a democratic stance to question anybody's legitimate mandate. On the motion, HSE west has had a reduction of 5% in its budget. What has the Minister of State got against the people of Limerick and the mid-west?...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: He should also have defended him as a fellow medic, but mainly because he is an employee of the Minister.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: The Minister has an obligation as that consultant's employer to protect his position. He highlighted a legitimate concern on behalf of the public in the mid-west and it ill behoved the Minister not to step up to the plate.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: The Minister should protect the people who work for him.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: What about the 47.5 posts?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: What is being proposed?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: What is the Minister of State going to do about the vacancies?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: The number is 16.5 for maternity services.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: This Bill is a breach of trust for motorists who purchased environmentally friendly cars since 2008. The financial incentives established in July 2008 to encourage drivers to switch to fuel-efficient cars with low CO2 emissions was a core feature of efforts to tackle climate change. This Bill erodes the progress made on placing environmental concerns at the heart of public policy. It...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Is the Government capable of changing anything?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Even with its big majority, it cannot change anything.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: It cannot change anything. It tried and failed to change our policies.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: And the Progressive Democrats.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Niall Collins: Deputy Hogan and Fine Gael promised to reverse that ban but now they will not.