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Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: ...Castletownbere, they are delivering continuously on the ground. They are out every night. In some cases, it is the same people involved in the different groups. If somebody is good at something, he or she will be asked to participate. However, those people definitely cannot take the workload that is being asked of them. They speak to me about it quite a lot. I mentioned the person...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Michael Collins: ...a number of years ago and it failed to get there. Another senior Minister seemed to get that funding even though a junior Minister from Fine Gael had brought the committee up a number of days previously to pat them on the back and tell them they got it. All this has to be looked at and investigated properly. Fairness is what we need here in order that there is transparency in the...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Collins: ...and obviously I am not a woman. I respect that but while I am elected by the people of Cork South-West, I will continue to fight to save a life. I will end by quoting an extremely good friend of mine, Pat McCarthy of Gurthdove, Goleen, who died yesterday. He was a very educated man. He said to me, when I mentioned abortion one time, that while there was a breath in his body, he would...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: .... They voted us down and told us we were all mad and off our heads. Look at it now: it is a hoover of the highest order and there is not a head rolling anywhere. Some people are looking for a pat on the back for running a hospital completely and crazily over budget with no accountability. No other country in the world would accept this but good old Ireland has. Why did Fianna...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: It is astonishing that they want to talk about decreasing the price of fuel now, all of a sudden. They are very sympathetic to the people now. We have an economic crisis as far as people are concerned. The Minister has not shown any respect or leeway to alleviate that concern. The price of fuel at the pumps is phenomenal and the people of rural Ireland have no choice. There are 2.2...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...all the milk would be gone out of it, but the Government is only leaking the good news. It leaked all of that over the past few months, and particularly the last few weeks, to give itself a little pat on the back. To be honest, there was no need in having today’s showpiece. Most people knew all the positives that would be announced anyway. However, no one spoke about the...

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

Michael Collins: ...whether in Cork or west Cork, that I have been asked to attend. No other Deputy does it, but when those 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...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Collins: ...until he made it a non-viable option. Despite that, the State continues to support fuel coming into the country via Moffat in Scotland. There is no problem at all in the wide earthly world with that. The Government pats people on the back and tells them to bring in as much as they can because doing so makes it look like we are not contributing to the issue. The Government makes...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Collins: ...a lot of Ministers. That does not apply to everyone but to quite a lot. As I said, Phil Hogan did a hatchet job on town councils and the Government of the day, comprising Fine Gael and the Labour Party, patted him on the back and accepted it. Only one town did not lose its town council, namely, Clonakilty in west Cork, which stood up to him and still has a town council. I wish the...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Michael Collins: ...a proper quota similar to what others have negotiated. The sad thing is there is so much decommissioning going on that we could end up with less quota than those in the disastrous deals we have been patted on the back with. Whether it was Brexit, etc., and I could back through the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s, every deal that was done on fishing was a raw deal. It delivered a raw deal...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Michael Collins: ...of State might pass on that we would like him to stay. I am not degrading the Minister of State but a senior Minister needs to hear facts and he will not hear them from most of his own crowd back-patting him and not explaining to him what is happening out there. In order for temporary emergency generation to be available in quarter 4 2023, licence applications are required to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (23 Feb 2023)

Michael Collins: ...cheek and, at the same time, he was the Taoiseach in the Government that refused to give the people involved the money, even though they ticked all the boxes and, as I said, were brought up here, got a pat on the back, were told they would get the money by three Ministers and had their picture taken. Pictures went up on social media all right, but they never got a brown cent. We need...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Collins: ...carbon tax should be suspended for now. It will not be long before diesel costs €3 per litre at the pump. I would not like to be the politician who supports that and is knocking on the door to pat a person on their back as they look for their vote. As I said, it is a very difficult time for people in farming. One of our amendments was mainly about agricultural diesel. It is an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Michael Collins: ...Green Party would at least have given a fuel subsidy to our fishermen. I was at the recent Irish South & West Fish Producers Organisation AGM. It was good hear the head of the organisation, Pat Murphy, put his case. The members are the people at sea. They know exactly what is going on. They ask about things like the recent announcement giving some people a bit of help with...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: ...made sure to put home heating oil out of their price range but it will not deliver on the warmer homes scheme. Is it going to have another fancy announcement next week with glossy magazines and praise and everyone patting themselves on the back? I will wait and see if there is delivery. Surely to God, if a person fills out an application form and sends it away, then a date should be...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Michael Collins: ...are being sold here. The Green Party wants to be able to say there is no need to worry because we do not make peat moss any more, but where is the peat moss coming from? It is coming from Latvia. Well done, lads. Pat yourselves on the back. You are real heroes. I can tell you this will not be forgotten. Car fuel prices for ordinary men and women who work hard every day of the...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Michael Collins: ...to it. There has been an extensive consultation with the Department's legal services division, the Office of the Attorney General and external counsel on this issue to devise a system which is compatible with our legal system and existing legislation. However, there has been a completely inappropriate lack of meaningful consultation with Irish fishers. In scrutinising the general scheme...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2021)

Michael Collins: ..., my constituents, tell me that, sadly, corruption is applauded and has been applauded in this country many times. People who have been found to do wrong have never been made fully accountable. They have been patted on the back all along by the political system, as well as the banking system. They have been given plenty beautiful pensions and they can play golf while those people whose...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Michael Collins: ...has gone from €1.17 to €1.45 per litre in less than 12 months. Businesses are ringing me saying that they will let staff go because they cannot afford to continue, but Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are patting themselves on the back. The price of diesel will increase again in another few months' time. We are facing difficult times. It is astonishing that no amendment...