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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: The group did plenty of lobbying with all the county councils in any event, in fairness to it. From my reading of it, these people have been talking to the families. This is what the families want. If everybody on one side is in agreement, we have two problems. The first is that three State organisations are supposedly responsible for making the decision as to whether the bodies can be...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Make a decision once and for all. We are tormenting everybody here. I cannot believe the group has that level of backing. I can see the point about the historical side of it and that Kilmainham Gaol is possibly consecrated ground now in any event, but, on the other side, if we want to complicate it even more, we could examine whether there is a possibility of a State funeral or other State...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Then the buck stops there.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: To put on record, if they are stuck with the excavation, I will do it myself. I did many of them in my previous career, believe it or not.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: No, it is a commonsense approach.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: We will have to wait and see what the response is before we can discuss it.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Absolutely. I hope there will be a common-sense approach.

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...

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

Pat Buckley: Excellent. Thank you, Chairman. You are a gentleman.

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

Pat Buckley: I forgot to mention the list of correspondence of the county council about alleged unauthorised developments in respect of Waterways Ireland. Has that list been completed yet? This is starting to stretch out. I have been trying to get information on it through a freedom of information request and I have basically been blocked legally from obtaining answers. I have photographic evidence of...

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

Pat Buckley: Sorry, Chair, for cutting across you. My frustration is that I received the response to the freedom of information request only yesterday, and it politely tells me to - you know the two words I would use. It hides behind legal threats again, and we have had that in committees before. That is why we amended the committee's powers a long time ago to give it the strength to bring people in...

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

Pat Buckley: I know that.

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

Pat Buckley: May I read that statement into the record? It states: ...if the land, which was taken illegally as it is illegal to take land without planning permission, is land belonging to Waterway Ireland, then it is Waterways Ireland's issue, not the council's issue. Mr. Éanna Rowe replied: The point I was making is that planning and development are matters for the local authorities under...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: This is not about holding a competition or going after certain parts of the Department. Not all committees are in place to find out what people are hiding or not doing right. It is about trying to facilitate ideas and things that may happen outside the box. We can go on the record here and say that as legislators, if we had been told this, we could actually make provisions within the law...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Sick to the stomach is the way I described it when we listened to the witnesses. However, what was more terrifying about it was the way they were treated. Something like nine boats came out of this factory. It is similar to the national car test, NCT, and four of these boats practically failed the NCT and were allowed out. Nobody is being held responsible for that. That poor man spent...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes, and it beggars belief. I know the lady, Emily O'Reilly, because we have worked with her previously. She is very thorough. I do not know whether it has been flagged with the European Ombudsman. It goes back a while before her tenure, so it might have been dealt with by a different ombudsman. I would suggest that if she does not have that information, we might flag it up with her as...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: We should reiterate the possibility that there are three more ships out there, that families' lives are at stake and that nobody is doing anything about it.

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

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (20 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when works will commence in relation to each of the new rail stations of Blarney/Stoneview, Monard, Blackpool/Kilbarry, Tivoli, Dunkettle, Carrigtwohill West, Water-Rock, Ballynoe under the Cork area commuter rail programme; when each station will be open and operational, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: 582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department can extend the deadline for the voluntary redundancy scheme for local authorities' water staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11534/24]