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- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: Five thousand is a large figure.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: We went through a lot of amendments when we set up the memorandum of understanding for this committee. I was passionate that this is possibly the only committee left in the Oireachtas that is lastchance.com. This is where we give people outside the Houses their voice. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion, to be heard and it is a decent way of debating and thrashing out the issues....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: This has been going on for a long time. I remember one time when we discussed it I said I would write to my own council. I have put the question to it and I mentioned authorised and unauthorised developments on its section of Waterways Ireland waterways. In fairness to Cork County Council, it came back very fast in response to authorised developments but there was supposed to be another...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: Let us see what is going on.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating me in raising this issue. Midleton was described as a disaster zone or a swamp on media this morning, but it is not alone when it comes to this disaster. Killeagh, Whitegate, Lady's Bridge, Mogeely, Youghal, Inch and many other single dwellings dotted around east Cork have been affected by this flooding. Roads have been ripped up. In addition,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for his response. As I said, it is not a competition and I do not expect all questions to be answered. I acknowledge that the flood defence mechanisms that were put in place, such as in Mallow and Fermoy, actually worked. There should be an emphasis on that. Nobody could have predicted it affecting such a large area. In Midleton where the two rivers meet at...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: Yes. That was a massive gesture.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (19 Oct 2023)
Pat Buckley: If I can find the community welfare officers. The local one is retired.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Middle East (7 Nov 2023)
Pat Buckley: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); and what efforts he and the Government will make to see that they are safely returned to Ireland. [47298/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Nov 2023)
Pat Buckley: 805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who is currently in Gaza in the midst of the Israeli bombings; if she will provide a rationale for why his visa application to visit his family in Ireland was rejected; if she will review this application to provide the person with the support to leave Gaza to visit...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I will be as fast as I can. As a Corkman, I speak a lot faster than the rest.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I thank Ms Curtis for attending. This has been going on for a long time. What we have dealt with is only part of the file on Owenacurra. There are also parliamentary questions and you name it, not to mention the petititons. Ms Curtis is right. She mentioned suicides. Between 2000 and 2002, there were 69 suicides in east Cork. There were women aged 63, 54 and 33, and the rest were...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I will be brief. The Cathaoirleach can see how angry I am.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: The point I am making is that Ms Curtis is correct. Somebody has to take responsibility for messing up - I am being polite with the phrase "messing up" - and reverse these decisions, and if something is broken, fix it, and if one cannot fix it, replace it. That is only the structure. One should not remove vital services from the communities because that is where the heartbeat of the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I second that proposal.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I apologise for not being in the committee room but I was watching the meeting and there was some detail covered. That is the way it is. It is not about giving the witnesses a pat on the back. It is about exposing the point that they knew more about what was going on. They did not have fairy-tale ideas. They had solutions and nobody listened to them. That is the reason I am very proud...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I will be brief, particularly as I am not from Tipperary. I am from Kilkenny, although I did marry a Waterford woman or she, for her sins, married me. Ms Mullins presentation on behalf of her group does exactly what it says on the tin: we are going backwards. I was thoroughly disappointed when she stated that since they were here in January, things have actually got worse. I am...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I reiterate that. Ms Curtis is right that I have approached the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on numerous occasions, officially and unofficially, and even asked her during the last break or so-called recess, whenever it was, in her capacity as a civilian to go in and look at the place. Unfortunately, that request was declined. Ms Curtis is right about how important this is. Of all...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: It is 2023. That this place in Kiltimagh does not have a water supply is crazy. On top of that, there is the issue of water charges and how that went, yet these people were willing to pay between €1,500 and €3,000. It is simply not good enough. County council workers are on one-day stoppages at the moment and boil water notices are in place in many counties today. I have...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Pat Buckley: I again agree with the recommendations on this. There seems to be a domino pattern here. I would be interested in what comes back on that response.