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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: No, Chair. I thank you for today.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: The brunt of it.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I want to touch on the Plan for Places report. As Mr. Muldoon said, we already have the information we need. As public representatives, we have this information every year because we have a constituency dashboard. We have the Census information and can find out things like the average ages of children in east Cork, how many have a disability, how many children are in families, the age...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Cathaoirleach (21 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I, too, congratulate the Cathaoirleach. I got to know her in the past few years. I can tell that she will make a great Chair. What is happening today has to be an honour for her and her family. People talk about making history and setting down markers. The Senator has now made history and is now living history. When I was a member of Cork County Council, I was a member of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (20 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA or TII have considered a park-and-ride-style model of transport to run from Youghal, County Cork, to the train station in Midleton, County Cork, so as to facilitate a proper public transport corridor to Cork city via the train to Cork city and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29809/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the capitation grants differ so much from primary school (€183) to second level school (€316); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29772/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Policy (20 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering the full roll-out of mental health supports for schools in Ireland; if the establishment of mental-health supports on-site in schools is being considered, with 544,788 primary pupils (details supplied), which equates to €20 per pupil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29860/23]

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the visitors who are in the Public Gallery. I, too, want to read from correspondence I received recently from the son of Patrick Murphy, who is in his 99th year. Patrick worked for CIÉ for 40 years from 1949 to 1989. His job was as a ganger on the permanent railway between Cobh and Cork. He walked the line in both directions every two weeks with a heavy hammer and a large...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for her appearance tonight at this ungodly hour. We are back again talking about the Owenacurra centre. I am delighted this Topical Issue was selected. I have been driven to frustration over the past two years between parliamentary questions and committee meetings. I wrote to the European Ombudsman in October 2022. I wrote that I was contacting her office...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I appreciate the response. I am well aware of the three beds and the possible ten beds but we had 22 beds there so we are basically halving the service. It is not what was there before but that is for another day. I was raising the concerns of residents and families. I got information from the residents that people were coerced. The Minister said people were relocated. According to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: The Mental Health Commission never mentioned the closure of the facility.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I understand that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: Absolutely.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for her time.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank Mr. Justice Mahon and Mr. O’Neill for attending the committee today. I was taken aback by the first part of the opening statement and the discussion of interpersonal complaints. From his answers to the Chair's questions, the scope of Mr. Justice Mahon's office seems to be very narrow unless things are defined as to what is and is not a complaint. He said it is about...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes. It is not in their DNA.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: That would be the commonsense approach and this is the problem.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: That it should broaden the scope.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is interesting. Regardless of the Department, as we are dealing with our Defence Forces the scope should nearly be brought out to the limit, whereas as Mr. Justice Mahon said, it stops at sensitive information on military operations or peacekeeping operations, or whatever. It seems so constricted. I was asking those questions because I am interested. If a person made a protected...