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

Pat Buckley: As no one is offering, I invite Ms McKay to make her closing statement.

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

Pat Buckley: That is vital. On behalf of the committee, I thank Ms McKay very much for presenting to the committee. These sessions are always very beneficial to the members. It is all about getting information in so we can get information out. We will suspend briefly to allow Ms McKay to leave.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: We have six petitions for consideration today. The first is Petition No. 52 of 2022 entitled Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign, which is from Mr. Joseph Hughes. The petition requests that the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and the national sepsis programme in the HSE develop a sepsis awareness campaign for television and radio explaining to the public how to recognise...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Senator. That is agreed. The next petition under consideration is Petition No. 54 of 2022 entitled Amendment of Section 173 of Personal Insolvency Acts, which is from Mr. Karl O’Daly. The petition relates to a request to amend section 173 of the Personal Insolvency Act which provides for the keeping and preservation by personal insolvency practitioners of accounts and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed. The fourth petition on the agenda is petition No. 64 of 2022 entitled “Stop heating [the] Russian Embassy” and is from Mr. Jonas Paulauskas. This petition relates to a request that the electricity, heating and water for the Russian embassy in Ireland be turned off. The committee recommends that the petition is inadmissible under the Standing Order 127(1)(a)....

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed. I thank the members. The fifth petition before the meeting is petition No. 65 of 2022 entitled “To bring the Legion Hall into public ownership and reopen it as a community/peace centre” and has been made by Mr. Aaron Crampton. This petition relates to a request that the now privately owned and derelict Legion Hall in Killester in Dublin 5 be added to the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes, that was definitely the case. I do not believe we have anything else to consider on our agenda for today. That concludes our consideration of public petitions. As always, I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie. A petition may be addressed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on a matter of general public...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (28 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many assessments of needs cases for children with disabilities have been outsourced to the national treatment purchase fund in 2020, 2021 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15291/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank Ms O'Reilly for her time today. I was interested to hear about the Covid recovery fund and very interested to read the press statement from the European Court of Auditors, which stated: Citizens will only trust new ways of EU funding if they can be sure that their money is being spent properly ... Currently, there is a gap in terms of the assurance the Commission can provide for...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is absolutely perfect. I wanted to see had I gone in the right direction. I know it takes time for the European Court of Justice to go through the cases but I just wanted clarity. I am glad Ms O'Reilly has given me that information and there is actually an avenue there.

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank Ms O'Reilly very much.

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: Fair play to Ms O'Reilly. I would love her job, to be honest. I would actually love her job.

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: Absolutely. It is on the public record. I would like to return to something I have previously spoken to Ms O'Reilly about. I got the document and her office looked into it. The response that came back to the question I had about the issues with the Owenacurra centre was that the European Ombudsman can not look into complaints about publicly funded healthcare systems like the HSE. Where...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is a question of oversight and accountability. One cannot get anything. Once one goes into the system, whether it is the Mental Health Commission, the HSE, Tusla or anything else, it is just a constant circle. Ms O'Reilly spoke in her opening statement about accountability and transparency. That is where my bugbear was. As I said at the start, these are people, human beings, who are...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I have tried that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes, €724 billion is a lot of money, and €989 million is a lot of money. I want a tip on something else. I asked Ms O'Reilly about referring cases to the European Court of Justice, ECJ, or to the Public Prosecutor's Office within the EU because I approached the European Court of Justice a number of months ago with what I feel is a human rights-based issue. I wrote to Ms...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I wrote to Ms O'Reilly's office and received a response back. I gather from the response that it was a matter for the European Court of Justice so I decided to go there.

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is not too often that we get the European Ombudsman to attend and I will catch her on the spot. I wish to return to an issue about which I have spoken to her, namely, the health centres, and so on. She may remember that I mentioned a mental health and respite centre for old folks, the Owenacurra mental health centre in Midleton, County Cork. If I send the details to her, can the...