Michael Collins
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Independent Ireland · Cork South-West · serving since 2024-11-29
- Vote recorded in 329 of 401 divisions in the archive
- 575 debate contributions
- 313 parliamentary questions asked
Record timeline
- constituency Cork South-West 2024-11-29 to present
- party Independent Ireland 2024-11-29 to present
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2025-09-24 · to Justice
112. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the legal basis on which the use of locations (details supplied) proceeded without planning permission or exemption being sought; and if his Department accepts that this sets a precedent for future developments [50560/25]
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2025-09-17 · to Children
1075. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, which have signed up to the core funding partnership from September 2025 to September 2026. [48254/25]
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2025-09-17 · to Children
1076. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, which are on the Tusla register in September 2025. [48255/25]
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2025-09-17 · to Children
1077. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of early years services, excluding child minders, in existence before the core funding partnership started in September 2021. [48256/25]
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2025-09-17 · to Children
1084. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of child protection officers working with Tusla in 2023, 2024 and 2025. [48475/25]
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2025-09-08 · to Culture
1064. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he will expedite the approval process for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44717/25]
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2025-09-08 · to Social
1327. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection to consider waiving the means test on foster care families (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44606/25]
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2025-09-08 · to Health
2508. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health the total amount spent by the State on advertising campaigns related to abortion provision, by year in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; by category, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46460/25]
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2025-07-29 · to Housing
1501. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the proposed extension to the duration of planning permission applies to one-off rural house planning applications coming towards the end of planning permission, as well as large developments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/25]
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2025-07-29 · to Health
2586. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 855 of 8 July 2025, the number of early abortions provided through fully remote consultations, in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41018/25]
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2025-07-29 · to Health
2587. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health if doctors are required to record the number of abortions they provide through fully remote consultations; if records are kept of the reason an in-person consultation was not done; the safeguards that were put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41019/25]
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2025-07-17 · to Health
550. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of reimbursement claims submitted and reimbursed (PCRS), per month, for first and second consultations for terminations of pregnancy by GPs, from January to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40438/25]
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2025-07-15 · to Social
658. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied) refused retirement benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39472/25]
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2025-07-10 · to Rural
82. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht for a breakdown of the total funding awarded and the number of jobs supported through the LEADER programme in the west Cork LEADER footprint area under the current CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38529/25]
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2025-07-08 · to Finance
313. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Finance to outline, given the difficulties with getting school bus drivers, the reason those willing to drive the school bus and who may have a small pension face a Revenue bill during the summer months when they have to draw down jobseeker’s allowance for seven weeks (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37687/25]
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2025-07-08 · to Finance
335. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by two years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37818/25]
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2025-07-08 · to Finance
336. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by three years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37819/25]
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2025-07-08 · to Finance
337. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Finance the number of companies (details supplied) in Ireland have failed to file their annual return by four years or more, as of 3 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37820/25]
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2025-07-08 · to Health
854. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health the arrangements that exist to ensure that healthcare professionals who do not wish to participate in abortions can exercise freedom of conscience in this regard during their training as doctors, nurses and midwives and or pharmacists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37675/25]
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2025-07-08 · to Health
855. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health if her Department will undertake further independent research into abortion provision through remote consultations, in light of a report in a newspaper (details supplied) on 1 July 2025 on the lack of regulation of telemedicine, and the HSE's more recent position since the 2021 review that telemedicine abortion can make it more difficult to identify coercion or abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37676/25]
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2025-06-26 · to Health
72. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health the plans in place to end the disparity in funding between private and public nursing homes and thus protect the viability of all private and voluntary nursing homes (details supplied). [35007/25]
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2025-06-26 · to Health
77. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health if plans are in place for a designated respite hospital in County Cork (details supplied); and if not, the reason. [35008/25]
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2025-06-24 · to Health
796. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of GPs reimbursed (PCRS), per month, for first and second consultations for terminations of pregnancy, from January to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33884/25]
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2025-06-24 · to Health
871. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE mental health facility at Perrot House, Coolnagarrane, Skibbereen is closing (details supplied). [34295/25]
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2025-06-11 · to Health
360. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on a document (details supplied); where said guidelines can be accessed or, in the event that the guidelines do not yet exist, if her Department intends to establish a guideline document for Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31056/25]