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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Collins: 1512. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding PCR testing to enter Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63468/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Collins: 1364. To ask the Minister for Health if a vaccine (details supplied) will be made available in Ireland; the steps he will take to make the vaccine available here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63028/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Collins: 1615. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of the term reproductive rights in the context in which it was used by a person (details supplied) on 8 December 2021 during a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1100/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Collins: 1621. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to appoint a telemetry nurse or a qualified professional to operate the EEG video telemetry machine for patients with epilepsy in Cork University Hospital (details supplied); when this piece of equipment will be up and running in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1110/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Advertising (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Collins: 1869. To ask the Minister for Health if he or the Government have advised formally or informally particular prospective candidates to apply for the position of chair to oversee the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2159/22]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: As we debate this Bill, some Deputies may be asking or telling themselves that the matter of foetal pain relief is more suited to medical guidelines than primary legislation. I am sure many of my Dáil colleagues remember that when similar amendments were proposed three years ago, the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, refused them. He stated: The purpose of this legislation is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, line 29, to delete “6 months” where it secondly occurs and substitute “12 months”. This is significant legislation, not least because it arises from the only commitment in the programme for Government that would seek to close down three Irish businesses. This is the first instance in which a legitimate and lawful farming...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, after line 41, to insert the following: “(v) all other reasonable, necessary and consequential costs and losses so that the totality of the compensation is reasonable and fair,”. I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to speak. I do not know if the Minister is going to accept any of the amendments I have tabled....

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I am pressing it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I have a couple of questions. What constitutes a serious or significant error? Who decides this? Will standard errors not be considered?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter regarding supports for the hospitality sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the funding available to a business in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62216/21]

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I wish to raise a point of order. I wish to clarify that one of the organisations, the Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation, has rejected part of the report on the decommissioning scheme. The Minster has failed to recognise that. I will reject the same part of the report for the same reasons.

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I ask the Minister to go back to Europe and fight for a quota-----

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: That is what we need. I want to make that point. It was not made clear that the organisation had rejected that part of the report.

Seafood Taskforce Final Report: Statements (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: One of the major recommendations from the task force interim report is that a month-long voluntary temporary cessation scheme would be offered to 220 whitefish vessels impacted by the quota reductions in the period from September to December. Fishermen have been raising their concerns about their industry since long before the Brexit trade deal was signed prior to Christmas 2020. All...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: Last Tuesday, much of the country was hit by high winds and rain. For decades now, the very hint of high winds and rain strikes terror into the people of Bantry and now Castletownbere as what happened on Tuesday has been happening for years, with businesses and residences ending up flooded. The mop-up operation on Tuesday in Bantry has once again angered business people as they are worn out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment and the AGRIFISH Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. We are where we are. I have spoken a good deal about fishing in the past 12 months. I have been talking to the fishing organisations and there is considerable anger and bitterness in regard to fishing. I have spoken at great length about that. It is now almost a year since the Brexit EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, TCA, was agreed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment and the AGRIFISH Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I did not get an answer about the bluefin tuna. I would also like to clarify that I do not support parts of the task force report in respect of decommissioning. The Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation in west Cork do not either. They have been made well aware of that. I just want that clarified because the Minister keeps me throwing at me that I do. It is a terrible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Michael Collins: I welcome our guests who have come here today to speak about the continued crisis in fishing. It is something I have spoken on at great length in the Dáil. Serious errors were made in the run-up to the Brexit negotiations, which have cost us dearly. The Government failed to get a deal for the sector during Brexit negotiations and the only option it is now putting forward is a...