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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: ...is in a desperate situation. The lower wage being increased is always to be welcomed but that is another increase for those businesses. They have to make payouts and they cannot afford them. Fáilte Ireland will spend millions promoting this beautiful country over the next few months but what tourists will see when they come here is empty commercial buildings for sale or lease...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Collins: The EU nature restoration law, part of the European Green Deal, requires Ireland to rewet large areas of land, posing a threat to small farmers and food security. The law lacks measures to protect farmers and their livelihoods. It will drastically alter land use and agriculture in Ireland, impacting on productive agricultural lands, especially areas with extensive wetlands. The law targets...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Michael Collins: ...this time RTÉ had moved around the site and enlarged the area over the years. RTÉ has allowed Vodafone to place a mast on the site in Rosscarbery and, who knows, they are probably being well paid for that. The land registry letter proves that RTÉ accepts that the Canty family are the registered owners of the property. This is a David versus Goliath situation. We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Collins: .... They are doing a hell of a bloody-good job. What if Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and them will not wake up and start backing the hard-working Irish farmer who produces pristine green good-quality land and good-quality products and stop looking at what we are bringing in from abroad, which is all we are doing? We have this habit to block everything to come into this country but make...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Michael Collins: ...the Israeli ambassador, is not the type of politics I would have anything to do with. This would have left the citizens of this country and the citizens of that country in grave danger and would land a neutral country like Ireland in the thick of this conflict.

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

Michael Collins: ...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 look at zoned lands and load density.

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

Michael Collins: ...the new tricks that have come into county development plans which are making it impossible for people who want to get going in life to do so. As I said, they are very much anti-development. Land where housing is desperately needed is being zoned for low density. There is a desperate need for housing in Clonakilty and other areas. People who want to build beautiful homes are not...

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: ...." That is a sad society and a road we should never have travelled. Video images came from a phone. They were put up on the some social media platform, and surely be to God there is already a law of the land whereby we can clamp down on that nonsensical carry-on and punish the people who do that. It all comes down to the sentencing of these criminals and the people who carry out these...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: This motion may be well-intentioned but it fails to grapple with the harsh realities of Ireland's energy landscape and the potential economic fallout of its proposed policies. In the real world, Ireland, like many other countries, is heavily reliant on fossil fuels, with about 88% of our energy in 2023 coming from these sources. A sudden shift away from fossil fuels could have significant...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Michael Collins: ...Minister's failure to secure an extension beyond the current derogation expiration date on 31 December. Farmers now face an agonising choice between downsizing herds or embarking on a costly land acquisition spree to comply with new regulations. Will Ireland succeed in getting a two-year extension for the nitrates derogation at today's critical meeting with the Commissioner?

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Collins: ...citizens, they also highlight the glaring chasm between the Government's financial commitments and their effective implementation. The one issue about housing I raise that affects the people of rural Ireland involves planning laws. Planning laws are making it almost impossible for young people to get off the ground even to the extent of getting a preplanning meeting. It is scandalous...

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

Michael Collins: I thank the Minister and the officials accompanying him. The sustainability impact assessment of fishing opportunities states the waters surrounding Ireland contain some of the most productive fishing grounds in the EU and that we have a duty of care and a national self-interest to protect our biological riches and, as such, they must be managed responsibly and sustainably. No one will...

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

Michael Collins: Human trafficking is a grave violation of human rights and it is a global problem that affects people from various regions, including those seeking better opportunities in Ireland. Traffickers prey on the dreams and vulnerabilities of migrants, promising them a brighter future but subjecting them to unimaginable exploitation. One alarming aspect of human trafficking in Ireland is the...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Michael Collins: ...a vote in favour of the drastic rewetting law at the June EU Environment Council in Luxembourg. The law, if implemented, includes legally binding targets that will have detrimental impacts on farmlands and the livelihoods of Irish farmers. The version of the EU nature restoration law approved by the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and other EU...

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Collins: ...comes above everything else. There are dangers on our roads. They are outdated and full of potholes, yet little money is being spent on them. Massive money is being spent on footpaths. You could nearly land a helicopter on some of the footpaths but two lorries cannot pass each other on the same road. For the life of me, I cannot understand how any engineers have a job. I can show...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Collins: ...to take the pressure off itself. I have been involved in a community council since 1999, Goleen & District Community Council. Raw sewage has been going into Goleen waters since 1999. There were landowners on whose land it was possible to get work done. Goleen & District Community Council paid for the flying in and worked at that time with the county council before...

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

Michael Collins: ...x2014; farmers are angered by the Government's plans for tougher measures that will drastically reduce emissions in the agricultural sector, leading to downsizing and closure of otherwise viable farms; — Ireland has a proud tradition of clean and green grassland agricultural production, with farms often being managed by the same families for generations; — over the last...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Collins: ...pig sectors are going through. It is all because of political parties finger-pointing at the great people who are up day and night to put clean food on our tables. The new ludicrous plan is to wet our lands, as if one piece of wet land will not spread to a neighbour's land. We have been asked to stop scaremongering here today. What the hell is wrong with those across the floor?...

Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Michael Collins: ...are not looking at opportunities we could have. The Minister has shut the door. There is no problem about importing it. There are many Deputies shouting and roaring against that but they are away in La-La land because most of them are driving diesel- and petrol-guzzling cars and vans. There will be no talk about that going home this evening. They do not want to walk home in case it...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Michael Collins: ...refused planning. That is the situation I find for many of my constituents in Cork South-West. Young couples starting off are being refused planning all over west Cork and other areas. Scenic landscape is thrown in as one of the excuses. Someone says, "Oh, you are coming out onto the N71 even though there are five houses on the same road in Rosscarbery". I can name them one after the...