Results 41-60 of 234 for cork speaker:Pat Buckley

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jul 2022)

Pat Buckley: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department will have approval of all procurement contracts for new electric trains and carriages for the Cork to Midleton and the Cork to Cobh railway lines to be signed off; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37584/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)

Pat Buckley: I am sorry for cutting across Mr. Fitzgerald but I am conscious of the time. The HSE's opening statement mentioned A Vision for Change. We have a catchment area of over 94,000 people in east Cork. The HSE is obliged to provide a service when areas reach around 100,000 people. We are fairly close to that and yet it is moving services back into the city, even to the far side of the city,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: 641. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that highly qualified and experienced paediatric staff in Mercy University Hospital, Cork, some of whom have 20-plus years service in paediatrics, are being ask to move to Cork University Hospital or apply for different roles due to the closure of the paediatric unit in MUH. [2907/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (23 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: 644. To ask the Minister for Health to act to stop the closure of paediatric services at Mercy University Hospital until such time as a full and adequate paediatric wing is in place at Cork University Hospital in order to avoid overwhelming services and reducing quality of care and outcomes for children in the Cork city area. [2910/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Accidents (5 May 2021)

Pat Buckley: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the wreck of a ship (details supplied) which is grounded at Ballycotton, County Cork; the details of the work of his Department to resolve this issue; and if it is the responsibility of his Department, another Department or Cork County Council. [22760/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jul 2022)

Pat Buckley: 273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contracts for electrification of the Cork to Midleton and the Cork to Cobh railway lines have been signed; if his Department has signed any procurement contract to purchase new electric trains to service both railway lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37582/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (11 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 853. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the dental treatment services scheme is available to medical card holders in Cork but the Cork University Dental School does not participate in the scheme and charges patients private fees for dental treatment; the reason for same (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34382/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (30 Nov 2021)

Pat Buckley: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the reason at least one nominated pharmacist in each town and village in east County Cork cannot administer the PCR tests; the reason this service is not being rolled out with families travelling from Youghal to Cork city to obtain this test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59134/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: 921. To ask the Minister for Health the location and name of the proposed premises to provide mental health day care services in Midleton, County Cork due to the removal of services from the Owenacurra Health Centre, Midleton, County Cork in March 2020; if the day-care services have resumed; if the service is running at 100%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14325/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (31 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: They say that they always save the best for last, so we will see. I have raised this issue in the Chamber numerous times. It is the boil water notices in east Cork, specifically in Whitegate. I want to give the Minister of State a synopsis of what is going on. It started on 14 February 2016, so we are coming up to the seventh anniversary of these boil water notices. The following is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...was set up in Fota Park. In early December, children from Carrigtohill village were trying to walk and cycle to the temporary campus. Some paths were very dangerous and overgrown, and I thank Cork County Council for moving very swiftly on that. It made the area very safe. I suspect other Deputies in east Cork have also been in contact with many worried parents and children. I ask...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (20 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: More than 700 children with mental health difficulties are on a waiting list for specialist treatment services in the Cork and Kerry region, including 200 who are waiting more than a year. Delays in accessing CAMHS worsened recently in Cork North Lee, which closed to new referrals last month following the departure of a consultant psychiatrist. The HSE said referral rates among under 18s in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: On the update on the petition on the flooding in east Cork, particularly in my area of east Cork, Midleton and Mogeely and so on, has that progressed? I have been in touch with a lot of the groups. People in a number of estates formed the group Midleton and East Cork Flood Action Group, which is good because it is non-political. I know that in Mogeely Cork County Council has been dealing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...in respect, first, of value for money and, second, for the entire project if it goes belly-up? In terms of the intervention areas, if this plan, which we will call plan B, fails, in my area of Cork alone there will be more than 74,000 premises, which could possibly involve 200,000 individuals, that might not get any broadband. That is very worrying. Has a public ownership model, based...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (21 Feb 2017)

Pat Buckley: 409. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there was no ambulance or rapid response car in east Cork available to respond to an emergency involving a suicide on 11 February 2017 and local fears that the second ambulance in Midleton, County Cork, which operates on a 12-hour basis only, will be removed soon; if this is planned, the rationale for same;...

Committee on Public Petitions: Fermoy Weir: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Pat Buckley: ...putting proposals to the committee shortly, or I can do so now while our guests are here because we are in public session. The petition concerns the Fermoy weir on the River Blackwater in County Cork. Members have contributed and the proposal is to request observations from the relevant stakeholders on the evidence provided at today's meeting, to invite the relevant stakeholders to a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...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 section for unauthorised developments and, unfortunately, I have not received...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Nov 2020)

Pat Buckley: This is an issue I have been trying to raise for the past three weeks on the Topical Issues debate. Since August 2016, I have raised the lack of secondary school places in east Cork. Unfortunately, this arises every year. In March 2020, I raised the issue of 200 children in east Cork who could not get to school because of transport problems. In June 2019, I raised the problems with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (3 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a number of accidents on Bellvelly Bridge, Cobh, County Cork which prevented emergency vehicles from accessing Cobh on a number of occasions in which the emergency vehicles had to turn around and drive back towards Cork city and use an alternative river ferry to access Cobh Island; his plans to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Pat Buckley: The same issue arises in regard to the hard-fought for CCTV system in Midleton in east Cork, in that An Garda Síochána does not want to take on responsibility for its maintenance and the municipal district in east Cork, formerly Midleton Town Council, has a major issue with it as well. There is a new CCTV operational in the town, which took a lot of fundraising to get up and...