Results 141-160 of 3,349 for speaker:Michael Collins

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will put funding in place for a morning ferry to transport school children from Sherkin Island to Baltimore (details supplied). [41419/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will arrange that second level students living on Sherkin Island, West Cork, have their ferry fares incorporated into their school bus ticket as is the case with students on other islands. [41420/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Offshore Islands (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current Government policy regarding social housing for the islands off the coast (details supplied). [41850/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 622. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce emergency legislation to prevent solvent companies reneging on their pension obligations (details supplied). [1009/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications Data (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 669. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will release the 2015 figures for the number of applications made for invalidity pension and domiciliary care allowance and the number of applications refused. [1828/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 1372. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the reported increase in fish quotas per tonne for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41482/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Imports (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 1373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the European Commissioner has lifted the ban on horses from outside the EU entering the human food chain, provided they have a six months' withdrawal period from medication prior to slaughter. [41483/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (17 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 1374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to a parliamentary question of 6 December 2016, if it is correct that EU Directives Reference 262/2015, which was published on 17 February 2015, only came into effect when it was transposed into Irish law by way of SI 62 of 2016, as amended in February 2016. [41484/16]

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I fully support the tillage farmers' request for compensation as a result of the severe weather conditions that seriously damaged their crops last autumn. In mid-September I visited a number of farms in the Bandon, Kilbrittain, Ballinspittle and Kinsale areas where I saw at first-hand what the weather had done to those grain crops. The crops were sprouting in the field and many of the heads...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: In the programme for Government discussions, the Rural Independent Group fought for an increase for workers on the rural social scheme. In the budget, the Government delivered 500 extra part-time jobs for rural Ireland, which was all good news for low-income farmers and fishermen. However, it looks like the devil is in the detail. When the jobs were allocated last Friday, County Cork - the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: Farmers and fishermen in west Cork are struggling badly. I attended an Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, ICMSA, meeting in Clonakilty the other night-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: -----and a man stood up and said that, after taking everything into account, he is earning €2 an hour. I tried to steer him in the direction of the rural social scheme. How foolish I was, because in the area of west Cork, from Macroom right down across in Bandon, out to Castletownbere and the Mizen Head and all in between, there are only 11 extra workers. For the fisherman and the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: -----I ask the Taoiseach to answer me. How are these figures totted up? Real questions hang over the credibility of the entire process.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: Even that is-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: There are no farmers or fishermen in Dublin.

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I welcome the Bill. Supporting older people to live and age at home is undoubtedly the best option. There is widespread evidence to indicate that older people prefer to stay in their homes and communities for as long as possible. Admission to long-term, residential care should be seen as a last resort and only be availed of when it is no longer feasible for people to remain in their own...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: In recent years community and voluntary groups the length and breadth of this island kept the country going when at times it looked like an impossible task. In particular, in rural Ireland when few other supports were at hand, the community and voluntary sector came to the forefront in delivering local services such as meals on wheels, tidy towns projects and maintaining towns and villages...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I hope the Taoiseach envisages that the rural plan will be one that will create many jobs. From what I have seen of it, I feel there is a lot of copy and paste in it but our judgement on that will be down the road. The set up of JobPath was poorly thought through, in my own view and the view of many in the community. Schemes like community employment...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: I support the motion. Bus Éireann provides essential services throughout the country and it is important that its future be secured. Proposals to cut the Bus Éireann Expressway service would have a huge impact on the people of Ireland, in particular those living in rural Ireland. Bus Éireann plays an important role by providing rural communities with regular access to towns...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Michael Collins: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Cork South-West constituency in 2015 and 2016. [4698/17]