Results 281-300 of 3,337 for speaker:Michael Collins
- National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)
Michael Collins: We are told there is near full employment in the country but are the people who are employed - young people in particular - being treated properly? I have grave doubts about that. I also have serious concerns about putting an extra burden on the employer. The employer cannot take the hit every time we stand up here in the Chamber. Some feel the employer should take every hit and that they...
- Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)
Michael Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion tonight. I thank the fire brigade personnel who were in the Public Gallery but who have walked out in disgust at the Minister's speech which was shocking, after promising that he would come forward with something tonight. I thank the firefighters in west Cork, Schull, Castletownbere, Bantry, Dunmanway, Bandon, Kinsale and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)
Michael Collins: I attended a public meeting at Shannonvale last night. It is a little village and picturesque community just north of Clonakilty. We had a packed attendance in the meeting room in Phairs Pub where we listened to people talking about the raw sewage and the sewage crisis in their town. This means they have raw sewage in the community garden so children cannot play there. They also tell me...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)
Michael Collins: We need answers. This is very serious. It is a public health risk.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: On a point of order-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: On a point of clarification-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: There is, because the record has to be corrected.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: I certainly will be taking it up with the Ceann Comhairle. This is a very serious matter where a Deputy can be accused-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: -----of being an organic farming member, which I am not.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: I certainly will be taking it up with the Ceann Comhairle, and at the highest level-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: -----because it is private information she is using.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: I am very annoyed about it. It is only fair that she be corrected and if she corrects it, is over and done with. We all make mistakes and I accept that.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: Sorry.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: I could not get it.
- Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, on a point of clarification, the Minister of State used my name inside in the Dáil on private information she must have got only from her husband. I am not an organic farmer.
- Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: I ask her to correct the record of the Dáil, please.
- Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: Excuse me. I have to correct it because the Minister of State-----
- Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: And correct it both times. She should check the records; I am not. The only way she knows this is that previously, when I was, her husband inspected my farm.
- Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: She is using that private information from The Organic Trust-----
- Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)
Michael Collins: -----to point the finger at me.