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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health and Safety (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is all in black and white.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health and Safety (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: This matter is self-explanatory. It is a sensitive case. It involves about 4,500 families and workers and their safety. It has been reported in the press this week that unfortunately there was another incident in the Stryker factory in Carrigtwohill. Unfortunately, One gentleman is on life support as we speak. I am not raising this for kudos or anything of that nature. This matter...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for coming in. When this petition came to me, I did not realise how serious sepsis was and I welcome the fact that the witnesses said there has been a 26% reduction in mortality rates. Going back to the what the Cathaoirleach said, I totally get what the HSE is doing within the medical structure but when I heard this first I wondered how I had never heard about sepsis....

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is about having this topical discussion and trying to see if we can all move forward together. I am glad Dr. O'Dwyer mentioned pharmacies as well because even in the past few years we have seen a considerable culture change within the pharmacy industry, which is for the betterment of the community and about which I am glad.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is great to have this conversation. It is about everybody talking and raising awareness here. I am delighted there is something on social media that we can all share. It is about sharing that information. It makes the point about how powerful some of these committees can be. I am lucky enough to sit on the Joint Committee on Autism and to learn a lot more from witnesses and so on,...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed. It is nice to see progress on that petition.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I sit on the Joint Committee on Autism. The petitioners appeared before the committee and we discussed this matter. The committee will lay a final report before both Houses by May of this year created time constraints but there was general agreement, very similar to the recommendations of this committee, that the Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen and the Joint Committee...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: Agreed. It is comprehensive.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: No.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I echo what the Chair said. It has been excellent. I was going to embarrass Susan and get her to go on the television in the committee. She would not be up for that. I echo what the Chair said. People outside do not realise the amount of work that goes in here by the secretariat and the case workers, and the volume of paperwork, phone calls, emails - you name it - and sometimes, let us...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I agree with that proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in east Cork in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and planned number to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular form; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. First, I congratulate them on how they have managed to achieve so much in such a short period of time within the library services and so on. It is heartening for the committee to get a bit of good news for a change. I address my first question to Mr. Brady and Ms Cusack. When the library was being adapted to make it autism-friendly, did the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: Some people come into our offices and they have been approved for X, Y and Z. It is grand to be approved for something but if it is not built, there is an issue. Is the council facing that challenge as well? We know that we have a major issue with housing as it is. When there is a need for specific housing, a person applies and the specific type of building is not available, how does it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: Does Mr. Brady or Ms Cusack want to comment on the question of how challenging it was to adapt the library? I am very interested in it. If it can be done in Limerick, why can we not do it anywhere else around the country? Most fairly large towns have libraries and while I acknowledge they are being used by people, the services can be improved. There did not seem to be an awful lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I want to congratulate the organisation again. It is not too often that we get good news stories in here. At least that is one. I am delighted that the project is moving on. I take Ms Cusack's point that people who never used the service are now using it. As she said, they were invisible in the community. I thank the witnesses for the presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. I was very interested in the written submission from TUS. It is 2023, and both statements refer to funding and the lack of funding. The fact is that funding is down nearly 50%, with the figures going the wrong way. Indeed, it is probably down 90% realistically, because the numbers have risen and the funding has halved. I am reading one of the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Press Ombudsman (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I congratulate Ms McKay. It is nice to have new blood. I am interested that the number of complaints going the whole way through the system is very low but the overall number of complaints is substantial. She mentioned Twitter and Facebook. It goes back to the code of practice. At least with a print edition, there is accountability and clarity and it can be followed up compared with fake...

Committee on Public Petitions: Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Press Ombudsman (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is interesting that the highest number of complaints related to truth and accuracy, which is understandable. Protection of sources is another heading and then there is one which I am very interested in, namely the reporting of suicide. We do not really see the word "suicide" too often in print media any more. The phrase is "died by suicide" but they do not use it. Are the complaints...