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- Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)
Michael Collins: ...after press release and statements that come one after the other on what is being done to fix the housing crisis in Ireland. It would do well to remember every policy taken so far has failed. This is why we are where we are today. The unfortunate thing I find in my constituency is so many people getting eviction letters. I do not want to tar every landlord with the one brush because...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment and the AGRIFISH Council Meeting: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Collins: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. We are where we are. I have spoken a good deal about fishing in the past 12 months. I have been talking to the fishing organisations and there is considerable anger and bitterness in regard to fishing. I have spoken at great length about that. It is now almost a year since the Brexit EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, TCA, was agreed...
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Michael Collins: ...down the line. We should have known we would be in a position where hundreds or thousands of people face homelessness. The Government has left this unfortunate situation spiral out of control. Unfortunately, we are where we are. Nothing the Government has tried to date has worked as the numbers have stayed the same. The difficulty I have is to try to help people in my constituency....
- Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)
Michael Collins: ...in turn, lead to further closures of creameries, shops, pubs and contractors in that rural community. The crisis we have at the factories today could well have been avoided if we had been listened to. Now we are where we are. The Minister has been telling these farmers to go home for the past month. The factories have been telling them to go home or they will take legal action...