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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: What measures could potentially address these challenges and ensure the sustainability and viability of the industry for the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: Earlier, Mr. Desmond stated: The end of February 2019 brought renewed hope to the inshore fishermen all around Ireland when the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Michael Creed, launched the strategy for the Irish inshore fishery sector, which was to run from 2019 to 2023. This strategy set out a vision for the future of the inshore sector to provide a prosperous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank the witnesses for being with us today. Fishing is a very difficult subject. Witnesses from the National Inshore Fishermen's Association were before us earlier and they painted a very bleak, shocking picture. I would appreciate it if the departmental officials replayed the proceedings and listened to the facts. One would like to say the facts should not be on the ground. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: I am not.

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for putting forward this motion. In November, Ireland had 13,514 people, including 4,105 children, in emergency or homeless accommodation, according to the Department of housing. The homelessness crisis in Ireland is growing due to this Government's lack of action. This is causing distress for many people, especially children, and is now considered a national...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: The hospitality sector in Ireland is under huge pressure. Closures of restaurants, pubs and cafes are happening at an alarming rate as we speak. More than 280 of these businesses have closed in the last number of months and records show that 48 closed in November 2023. I am inundated with businesses throughout west Cork and our country contacting me to tell me they are on the verge of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money reimbursed to GPs under the PCRS for performance of abortions in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2712/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (23 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent on abortion provision in 2023, broken down by category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2713/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: Investment funds are increasingly buying up properties in Ireland, such as the recent purchase of 46 houses in Belcamp Manor in Dublin for more than €21.5 million. The Government's 10% stamp duty on bulk purchases introduced in 2021 has proved insufficient in curbing this practice. The motion proposes a higher rate of stamp duty on home purchases by investment funds. However,...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: Yes indeed. That is the case. The problem is councillors have little or no say in what is going on now.

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: Very little. It was weakening between 2014 and 2016. I had a hell of a job to push things through, but nowadays that happens less and less. If you fight for extra development in one area where it is needed, it will be taken from another area. These are the new tricks that have come into county development plans which are making it impossible for people who want to get going in life to do...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: The Government plans to hold two referendums on 8 March, one of which is about the definition of the "family". The proposal is based on the citizens’ assembly’s recommendations and aims to amend Article 41 of the Constitution. The term “durable relationships” is undefined and will be determined by case law. The referendum’s wording raises questions about:...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. I need to explain to him about the knackeries that the dead animals are on the ground, so there is no point in talking about strict environmental rules. Sadly, they are fallen animals that have died over the last two weeks. There is an ongoing dispute that the Minister has not personally intervened in which he has to personally intervene in....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: What about the existing-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: I wish you, a Cheann Comhairle, the staff here in the Dáil, including the gardaí, and all here in the Dáil a very happy Christmas. Is the Tánaiste aware of the many crises hitting farmers recently? I will start this week with knackeries, where a strike is ongoing, leaving dead animals on the grounds of farms for days, open to dogs and vermin attack. There is also the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: I was not there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: I was not invited.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: Did it deliver?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: 481. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth given that many private early childcare providers are going out of business due to lack of funding, if he will give a breakdown as to where the existing funding is going; and the reason it is not getting to the early child care providers who are running a top class service on a shoe string budget. [56224/23]

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: There are parts of the Digital Services Bill I would support but I will not be supporting the main part of it. It has serious consequences for many people. We have talked about different areas, from hate speech to freedom of debate in this Dáil and throughout the country. It is hugely important. There is a huge difference between freedom of debate and people inciting hatred. Sadly,...

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