Results 1-20 of 111 for destroyed speaker:Michael Collins

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: ...during Leaders' Questions the scam that is going on with certain financial advisers. On foot of that, I attended a meeting with the Central Bank and some of the people affected who have had their lives destroyed because of these financial advisers. I was informed at that meeting with the Central Bank that yes, the Central Bank regulates financial advisers but these financial advisers can...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: ...but most are serial objectors. They need to be severely fined. The Government needs to stand up to them because they are bullies but it has accepted that and laid down before them. They have destroyed our country. Developments have been blocked. The sewerage infrastructure that is needed in local towns and villages has been blocked because people who do not live in the area have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Michael Collins: ...the environmental impact assessment of the effect of dredging. Eighth, there is no sign of the terms and conditions of the licence, and so on. Simply put, this planning application, which will destroy marine, leisure and tourism activity in Kinsale, is flawed, and this flawed process is aided and abetted by the Department of agriculture. Will the Taoiseach urgently look into this...

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Michael Collins: ...flooded 50, 60 or 70 years ago and they are still flooded today. Every time it floods, probably once a year, I go down there but I am ashamed of my life to go down there, walking into the same destroyed businesses. There is no compensation package. It is kind of a con system - it is handing out forms and saying you cannot qualify, you qualified before, you have insurance or you do not...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Michael Collins: ...Foxes pose huge threats to farmers. If Deputy Coppinger had been brought up in a rural area, she would understand that. How many times have I heard down through the years that a fox had broken into a hen yard and destroyed every hen in the yard? They are also a threat to our native birds and young lambs. We need to have controls for foxes and hares. We should not be afraid to say...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (12 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: ...in our policies, as did no longer following ineffective and often harmful policies that are not fit for purpose. The Taoiseach did not read that, did he? We proposed to ensure climate action does not destroy Irish food. We have concerns about the Mercosur deal. We also have concerns about the nitrates directive. We see how many thousands of cattle are being destroyed in this country....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (12 Feb 2025)

Michael Collins: ...It must be affecting other constituencies too. I ask for clarity on the N71, R586 and R585. Can we work towards a solution? Some of these areas need drops, but not a blanket drop because that would destroy businesses in these towns and areas. The roads are in shocking condition. That is the problem. Roads are massively wide, wide enough to take passing bays or whatever, but the...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: ..., Limerick or Donegal. If you are running a business and open an electricity bill, you know you are in trouble. The Government has no interest in small businesses. It put the VAT rate up to 13.5% to destroy those businesses and has closed at least 600 of them in a short space of time. Some people argue that the hotel sector is different and is doing well but the bottom line is that the...

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Collins: .... The Government has a focus on massive companies in this country and making sure they are okay, but the people who provide six, seven, eight, ten or 12 jobs in the local community are absolutely forgotten and destroyed. This VAT 9 group, which I was delighted to meet, is in with the Minister, Deputy Chambers, now pleading with him in advance of the budget next Tuesday. It should not...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Collins: ..., four or five years until they are almost blind. Now the Government is going to take away the one little pocket of hope these people, most of whom are in their 70s, 80s, 90s or more, had, of being able to go to Belfast and get reimbursed. It is going to destroy that hope and let these people go blind. That is an astonishing attack on old people and if this Government stands over it,...

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Michael Collins: .... These things happen. However, in this case, the road has been left closed and we move on. I talked to people in Ballinspittle which was recently flooded. In Courcey Rovers GAA club, the water came in from the roadside and destroyed some of its grounds and nobody will repair it but themselves. The story goes on. I could be here for hours.

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Michael Collins: ...documents. The Garda investigation into the bombings was mysteriously disbanded just seven weeks after the attacks, with crucial evidence sent North to the RUC being subsequently lost or destroyed, while the official inquest into the 34 deaths was never completed. It was truly extraordinary that Garda files could end up in the hands of the RUC in this way, especially when it...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: .... The humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where more than 30,000 people have been killed or injured, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, and where vital infrastructure has been destroyed, requires an immediate cessation of hostilities and for the international community to uphold its responsibility under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of...

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

Michael Collins: ...a second car - who wants to build a house has not been allowed to do so. On a wet day there might be nobody on that roadway. It is insane that genuine people's dreams, livelihoods and hopes are being destroyed by planners who have built it into county development plans that are now anti-county development plans. There is no development in a lot of county development plans. We have to...

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

Michael Collins: ...by up to 44%, costing these mainly suckler farmers tens of thousands of euro by undervaluing their bulls. Farmers who were doing everything by the ICBF book for ten years were met with an overnight change that destroyed their farm practices and their income. Also in the past two weeks, many farmers have been told that their farm payments under ACRES will not be paid to them, as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...for an exact breakdown of all expenditure from the Department to funding recipients. The Minister has ducked and weaved and has not given this exact breakdown. However, every effort has been made to destroy the private early childcare providers, putting them out of business in west Cork and elsewhere. The Department is demanding a validated financial return which must be submitted by...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: Flooding in the past few days has left many parts of County Cork devastated. People's homes and businesses and roads have been destroyed. Areas such as Glandore, Rosscarbery, Clonakilty and Castletownbere have been badly hit once again. Areas such as Midleton, I was told this morning, are like a disaster zone, with a shortage of professional help from anyone, leaving locals having to do...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...providers are outside the Dáil here, every Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Deputy is running around patting their backs. What delivery has the Government given them? It has given them nothing and has destroyed their livelihoods. They are hanging on the edge and they have told us this. They are not making up this story. They do not want to be on strike for three days. They want to...

Culling the National Herd: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: ...and Fine Gael councillor who will be knocking on the door of every rural farmer and every urban dweller as well - the doors of those people who depend on having top-quality Irish milk and meat, which Ireland has delivered up to now - we say that if the Government will not clearly support this motion, then let no farmer out there be in any doubt that these politicians or their parties have...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Michael Collins: ...Irish Farmers Association and the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association during the week. Irish agriculture and dairy farmers are being ruined by this Government with its nitrates directive. It destroys ordinary farmers and the ordinary hard-working dairy farmer with its carry on. It better row back or Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will face this on the doorsteps because the Green...