Results 1-20 of 74 for kerry speaker:Michael Collins

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Collins: The debacle caused by the National Ambulance Service over the past weekend has to be seriously investigated. The NAS caused fury in counties Cork and Kerry when it announced further reduction of services covering these areas. This effectively was leaving no ambulance cover for the Skibbereen area on Mondays, no service in Castletownbere on Tuesdays, no day service in Clonakilty and Bantry...

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

Michael Collins: ...attack on the elderly. I sincerely hope that the Minister of State, and the Minister for Health, when we get a chance to speak to him, can look into this change. It is an attack. The Government cannot provide the surgery for these people in Cork and Kerry. It is leaving these people there for three, four or five years until they are almost blind. Now the Government is going to take...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Michael Collins: ...sets a target and then fails to meet it. In 2022, the target was for 23.67 million hours of home care but only 20.79 million hours were provided, despite more than 6,000 people being on waiting lists. The Cork and Kerry area lost out on 744,797 hours, followed by the south and south-western area of Dublin, as well as parts of Kildare and Wicklow. Approximately 6,500 mostly older people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...Greencastle in County Donegal, and "the white fish sector - which targets species such as cod, haddock, and hake - is based mainly in southern ports including Castletownbere and Union Hall in Co Cork and Dingle in Co Kerry." The article continues: The fact that the species of fish being landed in Ireland is not being accurately recorded is a huge problem for the industry,” said...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ..., this is the situation people find themselves in. They are paying massive VAT and cannot afford to buy insulation products. The roads budget is astonishing. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae mentioned the local improvement scheme in Kerry. I could say the same about Cork. Funding is not available for the local improvement scheme. People are irate with me because they cannot get funding for...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...test has now reached 30.4 weeks; — the Dún Laoghaire/Deansgrange test centre currently experiences the longest waiting time, standing at 51 weeks; — learner drivers seeking to take their tests in Tralee, Co. Kerry, or Mulhuddart in West Dublin are subject to 45-week waiting periods, while those booking tests in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, or Castlebar, Co. Mayo, face wait...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...retired in November in 2022 as State solicitor for west Cork after 36 years. He was replaced on a temporary basis by Jerry Healy of Fermoy. He is now State solicitor for north Cork and west Kerry. In June 2023, the State solicitor for east Cork, John Brosnan, retired and has not been replaced. It is the view of many in the legal profession that the DPP will not replace any of our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Michael Collins: ...these are children. When the additional 243,000 people waiting for CT, MRI or ultrasound scans are added, it takes us way over 1 million people on waiting lists. This weekend, three buses will leave Cork and Kerry, taking people on waiting lists, some of whom have been waiting nearly five years, for operations in Belfast under the cross-Border scheme. Many of these people are up at 3...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Michael Collins: ...is an important motion, which I fully support. Down through the years we have fought bravely to keep services in Bantry General Hospital which looks after the people of Cork South-West and south Kerry and does so excellently. I pay tribute to the hospital staff. However, we are fighting to keep services there. We are fighting every day of the week to have endoscopy and stroke units...

Deployment of Naval Service Vessel to Participate in Operation Irini: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Michael Collins: ...could do absolutely nothing only stand idly by and wave out at them. They were sending a threat. They were continuously moving up and down off our coast. At one stage, they were 30 nautical miles off County Kerry. It is unbelievable to think that we are not set up to monitor this and to ensure the safety of our people and the equipment that is out there. There is a communication cable...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: ...two part-time ambulances because the Clonakilty ambulance spends the majority of its time in Cork city and county, while the Castletownbere ambulance is routinely tied up serving parts of County Kerry. The Bantry ambulance is often held up due to the delayed transfer of patients meaning that it too is unavailable for considerable periods of time. This is creating the terrifying scenario...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: ...ago. He was 90 years of age when he passed away yesterday. The question is short. What alternative accommodation does the Minister have in mind for the Ukrainian refugees in Killarney and Kerry, given that the tourist season is beckoning?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. The situation in Kerry is very worrying. I have heard a lot about it on Radio Kerry and from Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and other Deputies. It is also very worrying in County Cork, where I come from. The tourism season is starting soon and we are trying to promote tourism and continue to do so. It is quite possible that hotels will want to cease their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Collins: ...that, on most days and from early morning to late at night, the Clonakilty ambulance is in Cork city and county, not in west Cork, where it is supposed to be. The Castletownbere ambulance is in Kerry, tied up all day and night, leaving just two ambulances to cover the whole of west Cork. Cork, being 132 km long, is the longest county in the country. When the Skibbereen and Bantry...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2022)

Michael Collins: ...the closure of one quarter of its beds; a loss of seven beds in total. This would have been a devastating blow to mental services in west Cork that serve from Kinsale to Ardrum and parts of County Kerry. The report by the Mental Health Commission recommended the closure of the beds following an inspection of the hospital. However, more astonishing is that the same issue of non-compliance...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Collins: ...Pleanála to carry out an internal review, which in other words means it is investigating itself? How much did the senior counsel Remy Farrell probe into An Bord Pleanála's costs? Cork City Council, Kerry County Council and South Dublin County Council have all passed motions of no confidence in An Bord Pleanála in recent months. Over the last six months, since early April,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Collins: ...mental health unit from 18 to 11 is a huge retrograde step for mental health services in west Cork. The hospital covers a population of 180,000 from Castletownbere to Kinsale, as well as parts of Kerry. Following its inspection in 2019, the Mental Health Commission found the unit in Bantry to be 88% compliant and recommended investment be made. It was the same in 2021 when the unit was...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Michael Collins: ...was flagged well in advance arose when the hospital had no anaesthetist cover. The people of Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Mizen Head, Sheep's Head, Beara Peninsula and parts of west Kerry were left in a scandalous way. I have no doubt that if not for people power last year, the hospital would have been downgraded. Bantry General Hospital is one of the best hospitals of its...

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Michael Collins: ...no crisis in Cork Airport. If the people are brought down to Cork, we will make sure they fly out on time. The great people of Cork Airport will sort it out, and the same is true for the people in Kerry and Mayo, but Dublin Airport has made an absolute shambles of it. Nobody is answering any questions about what is going wrong. We are only going around in circles in recent weeks. I...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Michael Collins: ...Private Hospital in Belfast so people in their 70s, 80s and 90s could get urgent cataract surgery, a 25-minute procedure. The Government showed no respect to the people of west Cork, Cork city and Kerry. It left them on a waiting list for five or six years and if they were unlucky, let them go blind. Where is the money going? It is time to come clean. The top brass in the HSE are...