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

Pat Buckley: I do not wish to dwell on this but there is frustration when you are trying to do the right thing. As Ms O'Reilly said, it is not about finger-pointing, but surely somebody has to take responsibility. That centre was fully integrated within a town where the people living in the centre could walk into the town. There was a doctor across the road in the community hospital. The dentist, the...

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

Pat Buckley: Ms O'Reilly is fairly spot on there.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I acknowledge that it is a fairly extensive response. I thank the case workers involved because a lot of work has gone into this. Hopefully, the case will be resolved at some stage. For the benefit of people watching, we sometimes ask for patience because things do not happen overnight. There is a lot of to and fro but it has to be done. We will work on behalf of the petitioners but, as...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I agree with the proposal. I understand the frustration from family members and so on. It is similar to the situation with autism in terms of assessment of needs and so on. I ask that we write to the HSE to find out if any of the families in question have ever used an initiative similar to the cross-Border initiative that exists for funding cataract procedures and so on? Has that ever...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is too late.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I simply agree with it. It is an interesting aspect and I would like to see the response when it comes back.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I absolutely agree.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the committee, the secretariat and all the staff for the work they do as a phenomenal amount of work goes into this. It must be acknowledged.

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

Pat Buckley: I congratulate Ms McKay. It is nice to have new blood. I am interested that the number of complaints going the whole way through the system is very low but the overall number of complaints is substantial. She mentioned Twitter and Facebook. It goes back to the code of practice. At least with a print edition, there is accountability and clarity and it can be followed up compared with fake...

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

Pat Buckley: It is interesting that the highest number of complaints related to truth and accuracy, which is understandable. Protection of sources is another heading and then there is one which I am very interested in, namely the reporting of suicide. We do not really see the word "suicide" too often in print media any more. The phrase is "died by suicide" but they do not use it. Are the complaints...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. First, I congratulate them on how they have managed to achieve so much in such a short period of time within the library services and so on. It is heartening for the committee to get a bit of good news for a change. I address my first question to Mr. Brady and Ms Cusack. When the library was being adapted to make it autism-friendly, did the...