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Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: I can say a great deal in one minute. First, I wish to be associated with all the comments of the Sinn Féin Deputies. Members have spoken repeatedly about the effect this will have on small businesses and particularly on rural Ireland. There has already been the issue with the post offices. I will repeat what I said here last week. Fianna Fáil Members are speaking out of both...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: They are hiding behind the blue buttons. They do not have the balls.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: Some 190,000 people. This figure does not include what we call the silent homeless. These are couples who have reared their families and put them through college and who are paying a mortgage when all of a sudden the banks foreclose on that mortgage. The marriage breaks down and the family unit is broken up. To make it worse, social justice is battered, beaten and killed because the bank...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: It is not holding the Government to account. That is absolutely shocking.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: Fianna Fáil has normalised this and is facilitating the Government. It has normalised homelessness and both sides of debt. It should be absolutely ashamed. Fianna Fáil should get its finger out.

Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 2, after “application” to insert “per renewal order period”.

Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Bill. I commend the Minister of State and his Department for their quick and comprehensive work in bringing forward the Bill which not only fixes the legal issues which arose from the High Court's ruling but also improves the rights of patients in terms of their access to a review of their detention and creates a fairer and more...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: In A Programme for a Partnership Government, under the residential care capital plan 2016 to 2021, it was proposed that an amount of €2.67 million be allocated for the refurbishment of a 38-bed community nursing home refurbishment in Youghal, County Cork and €10.3 million was proposed for a new build community nursing home on the grounds of Midleton Community Hospital. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I thank Mr. Duffy. Is Deputy Brassil satisfied with that response?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I ask Mr. McLoone and Mr. Kelly to address the final point raised by Deputy Crowe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I thank the delegates for attending. These matters are not easily dealt with - they never are - but we will take everything on board. A significant amount of useful information has been garnered today which will help the committee in its work. I do not envy the witnesses the tasks they must tackle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I welcome Deputy Louise O'Reilly. Deputy O'Reilly will be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I am very conscious that we have only four minutes, so the witness will not have an opportunity to answer all the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: Deputy Crowe raised a number of issues on recruitment, data, the living measures, employment engagements, the London rate and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: Deputy Brassil wishes to address a question to Mr. McLoone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I call Deputy Rabbitte.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I am conscious of time. If Mr. Kelly could park his answer, we will get to the remainder of the speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: The Deputy will get an answer, but I would like to give everyone else a fair turn. We will return to the matter in the last ten minutes. I call Deputy Crowe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. I have some very brief questions. I am frustrated about the recruitment and retention issue. Mr. Duffy mentioned positions for nursing being oversubscribed, but there is a swallow hole of emptiness when it comes to looking for specific staff in areas of the mental health sector. I cannot understand it. If one needs a pound of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Report (25 Sep 2018)

Pat Buckley: 290. To ask the Minister for Health when the Jigsaw review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38428/18]