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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Michael Collins: ...the Minister of State personally, but the Government. Therefore, the community has to come up with the shortfall. I will explain to the Minister of State in two seconds how Cancer Connect in west Cork works. I know because I have been on the board of Local Link, as it is now called, and I have never taken a brown cent for it. When I mention "boards" some people freak out because they...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Michael Collins: ...bit of the flutter. I am one of those who does not gamble at all. It is very rare if I ever do. I buy local lotto tickets to support local communities. I do many clinics in pubs throughout west Cork, in Durrus, Bantry, and Clonakilty and as you go along, you meet local organisations which are doing their lottos. I need to study this more but there is talk that there is some movement...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Michael Collins: People all over Cork county and city are incensed at the paltry amount in roads funding given to Cork each year. While canvassing in Baltimore, Kealkill, Kinsale, Drimoleague and Macroom last week, the thing on the top of everyone lips is the condition of our roads. The independent AIRO report drawn up by Cork County Council proves the Government’s underspend has gone unnoticed...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Michael Collins: .... It should not use its majority in the Houses of the Oireachtas to approve the pact against Ireland's best interests. Handling of the immigration issue has become an international embarrassment, with Dublin and Cork turned into tent cities as people wait for unavailable accommodation. This crisis is hurting community spirit, especially in small rural villages. The responsible...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: ...are areas such as Ballinhassig, Goleen, Dunmanway and Drinagh that have no public transport - nothing. There is no public transport in most of those places. Ballinhassig has a Senator from west Cork who is roaring every day of the week and blaming private operators when it is the Government that should be delivering there. He is failing in his duty to deliver to the people of...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: .... I would be mortified to have him visiting my constituency. The Minister for agriculture and the Taoiseach's two predecessors - Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar - have visited my constituency of Cork South-West. They nearly wore a track down to Ballyroe, probably creating potholes. That is the only good they did for the constituency. They did not even fill the bloody potholes, or...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: ...interest from other qualified OTs, the decision to end the service is imminent. The HSE plans to roll out the reablement service to other counties, but the discontinuation of the pilot scheme in Cork is seen as a negative sign. I plead that this service be continued.

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: ...over the next five years but he seems undeterred by this and he continues with his agenda of not investing in roads. When we talk about roads, we have to go back to my constituency in west Cork. Year in, year out, roads in County Cork get a totally inadequate budget from this Government. It is continuous. Every excuse is made in the Dáil for them not getting money. Every report...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: .... Grants may help, but for these businesses, some of which have been in operation for decades, advice and mentoring is an insult to their intelligence. Last week, on the front page of the west Cork Southern Star, a national campaign for the VAT rate to be reduced was launched by businesses throughout west Cork. This campaign, called VAT 9 Now, run by Jamie Budd of Budd's restaurant in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: ...has to lower the VAT rate now and not kick the can down the road to October. That will not do. The new group will protest about the VAT rate. I promise the Taoiseach that this is not just a west Cork protest but a national one. I will ask again. Will the Taoiseach lower the VAT rate from 13.5% to 9%? Will he announce that today? If not, I promise the Taoiseach that the Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: I welcome our guests. Some of my questions have been covered, so I will not go over old ground. I wish to ask about the west Cork track along the Clonakilty line. Am I correct that planning permission has been approved? What is the next move? When can the IHRA cut the tape?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: If the application in Dublin fails, does that mean the application in Cork also fails?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harness Racing: Irish Harness Racing Association (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: I will certainly give any support I can. The IHRA is pushing at an open door when it comes to a track in west Cork anyway. I would be delighted to help. Why has the granting of a licence taken so long? Does the Minister have the power to grant this licence or is new legislation required?

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: ...mobile BreastCheck unit will not be back in Bantry until the summer of 2025. Therefore, these women, many of whom are full-time carers and cannot spend a full day away from their duties to attend Cork BreastCheck clinic, will skip their appointments and put themselves at risk of going undetected. The five Munster mobile BreastCheck units are currently based in North Cork, Killarney,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Flood Relief Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to address several matters (details supplied) regarding the flooding in east Cork in October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16334/24]

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Michael Collins: ...to be sorted. After 26 years, this is still not sorted. A recent meeting with Irish Water yielded no success. Money is needed but not spent. Why is the money that is needed not spent in Clonakilty and west Cork? Why is the political willpower from the Government not there to give the funds? They need the money. They need to do the sewage in Shannon Vale. I know the Minister is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: ...the situation they had to cope with recently in light of the reduction from 250 kg N/ha to 220 kg N/ha. I know there were quite a lot of visits to farms in Timoleague and that whole area in west Cork where water quality was found to be as good as you could probably get but it still made no difference to them. They are still in the same tunnel, on the same bus with the reduction from 250...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank Mr. Horgan. This is a serious issue. There are other areas in west Cork where raw sewage is entering the pipeline, yet there is so much finger-pointing at farmers that it is almost as if the farmer is guilty of all the wrongs that exist when that is not the case. We have to put this situation right in our towns and villages. In my village of Goleen in west Cork, we spent a great...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: ...limits, which are a very serious concern in my constituency. We have great sympathy for anyone who gets hurt in an accident and it is a concern but there has been a low rate of deaths in west Cork, and I pray to God that this continues for the people there. However, we are driving in extreme circumstances in areas where our roads are in appalling conditions. The Government lowered the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2024)

Michael Collins: ...by the State as though it were a few hundred euro. Overcrowding in our hospitals in 2023 was the worst on record. The number of patients on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick in 2023 was 21,143; Cork University Hospital, 12,487; University Hospital Galway, 8,914; Sligo University Hospital, 8,094; and St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, 6,555. These are astonishing figures,...