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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) that looks after adults with mental health disabilities and challenging behaviour will be included in the €1,000 pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15870/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Following last night’s “RTÉ Investigates” programme, I again raise issues of transparency, as I have done on numerous previous occasions in the period from 2017 until now, regarding the funding announced in the context of the rural regeneration and development fund and other funds administered by the Department Rural and Community Development. In late 2019, three...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Out of touch.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (24 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the task force and task force leader appointed for the implementation of the 30 proposed HSE diagnostic hubs; the timeframes that are expected for the roll-out of these hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15634/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I welcome our guests. The Chairman summed up the issue well earlier. We find ourselves in astonishing circumstances in this country. There was a reference to the lack of self-sufficiency, an issue that can be seen on many fronts. There is great anger among horticulturists and nurseries, and rightly so. That we are throwing away such a great resource that we grow ourselves and that we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: In the past 12 months, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Bord na Móna has exported absolutely no peat since then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Has it exported any peat at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I am asking the status of getting Irish peat to Irish growers to allow realistic transition. There has been no transition here, as such. There might be possibilities if there was time given and the problem is there has not. What is the status of getting our peat to Irish growers to allow this realistic transition to non-peat crop growing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Mr. Breen said "over a period of time". What kind of timeline is he talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: We have been talking for quite a while about three aspects of this matter: the environmental impact of transporting peat from the Balkans to Ireland, for example in the context of the lost quality of nursery stock product; the impact on Irish horticulture jobs; and the impact on Irish horticulture businesses. Is there any data on those areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Okay. I will read that later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Okay. What is the status of getting Irish peat to Irish growers to allow the realistic transition to non-peat crop growing?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the criteria for the fuel allowance and allow some latitude in the application criteria for the allowance whereby, for example, persons who apply for the jobseeker’s or supplementary welfare allowance should not have to wait for 12 months to be accepted for fuel allowance; if persons who are on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I would like to ask the Minister if she will reconsider the criteria for the fuel allowance and allow some latitude in the application criteria for the allowance whereby, for example, persons who apply for the jobseeker’s or supplementary welfare allowance should not have to wait for 12 months to be accepted for fuel allowance; if persons who are on illness benefit will be included;...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister. She said that the fuel allowance is paid to many pensioners. I know from my clinics - as I am sure does the Minister and every other Deputy present - that there are many pensioners to whom it is not paid because they are €1 or €2 above the eligibility criteria. That is unfair. In one case, a lady in west Cork who has cancer and is in receipt of illness...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: Everybody should welcome the increase in the threshold. I welcome it. It should be remembered that last week the cost of a bag of coal increased to €7. Most people can no longer afford it. The same applies in respect of home heating oil. We have a crisis in this country regarding the price of fuel. People are turning to the fuel allowance as the only option of being able to heat...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: My colleagues in the Rural Independent Group and I have been very vocal on the cost of energy and the sky-rocketing costs of fuel for farmers, parents, hauliers and employers. In fact, it affects every person in this country. I again call for the abolition of carbon tax and I ask Sinn Féin whether it will now join with the Rural Independent Group in calling for the abolition of this...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: We are facing an unprecedented crisis thanks to the green agenda, which has ordinary households, farmers and the fishing sector lying almost in ruins. Europe is telling Ireland to act but we are asleep at the wheel. Our Government must eliminate the carbon tax and cut all energy taxes immediately. Tinkering around the edges, which we have been doing, will not help our people. As early...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (22 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a product (details supplied) is not being funded under the scheme for the insulation of houses; if so, the reason the product is not being used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14029/22]