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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (23 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: The public water supply is a matter for Irish Water. If it will not work with us or facilitate people, who do we go to? That is the problem. The response mentioned 2025. We are in 2022 so that is another three years of people buying water, drawing water and enduring frustration. I appeal to Irish Water to get its finger out and start forward planning to help these people. It is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (23 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for attending. This is the fourth time I have raised a Topical Issue matter on boil water notices in east Cork. Many Deputies are lucky to be able to raise four Topical Issue matters in one year. I want to paint a picture by referring to recent newspaper headlines, including in theIrish Examiner: "Urgent boil water notice issued for Whitegate area of Cork...
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Official Apology (23 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: 78. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to secure a State apology for persons (details supplied) who were shot by Free State forces in Kilmainham Gaol on 17 November 1922. [58194/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Official Apology (23 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: 79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to secure a State apology for the wrongful execution of a person (details supplied) who was shot by Free State forces. [58195/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Official Apology (23 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: 80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to secure a State apology for the wrongful execution of Irish republican army volunteers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58196/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (22 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the national coastal change management strategy steering group on coastal erosion at Pilmore Beach, County Cork; and the details of the plans for long-term measures to address this continuing problem which has only had stop-gap measures applied to date which have not provided lasting protection for the local...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (22 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will urgently request senior Office of Public Works engineers to assess the works that were recently undertaken to arrest coastal erosion at Pilmore Beach, County Cork and to determine if further remedial works are required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57527/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (22 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: 794. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can clarify if Coillte plans to sell land for a development (details supplied) in east Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57972/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: You have caught me on the hop, Chair. I do not have any questions. I have observations more than anything else. We have heard from many witnesses over recent weeks and months that any service in the disability sector seems to be extremely restrictive. We have heard about opportunities for anybody with any form of disability. I hate using that word because it is a label. This is about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: I will be very brief and I am not picking on any individual here but I can remember in my former role as spokesperson on mental health that DCU was the very first educational body to bring me in as a spokesperson to meet with the students inside. It was so open and normalised and we had pizza. I can see how that has moved and progressed, perhaps not as fast as we might have hoped....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: I always give credit where it is due. The Minister stated "There has been a bit of a cliff edge for autistic people when it comes to the end of the traditional secondary school education", an issue we discussed in the previous session of the meeting. He is correct, and we will welcome anything that is positive, but some of the earlier witnesses spoke about funding. The Minister referred to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: It is great to listen to the Minister. This committee is very apolitical, which is good, and the people on it are passionate. Our conversation in the last session shows that we can work together on this. Some of the committees can get heated but this is about trying to get as much information as possible and getting that information into the public domain, so everybody benefits from it. I...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: It is agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: It is agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: No, Chair. I agree with that. I look forward to revisiting it.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: I agree with that.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: That is agreed. I note there was a substantial response to that. I acknowledge the work the secretariat has put into this. I agree it and look forward to seeing what happens.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: I agree with that.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: That is agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Nov 2022)
Pat Buckley: I thank the secretariat and all the staff on the committee. A lot of work goes into these responses and it is not all plain sailing. As we can see, some of what comes into the committee is defamatory and so on. I want to note that. I am conscious that the staff do a fabulous job.