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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: We have had an issue here all along with the retention and recruitment of staff. I cannot get my head around that problem. If we have people who are qualified to fill posts but we cannot employ them directly, yet we can sublet them to another company and pay them more to do the exact same job for which they are qualified, therefore, what is the problem? I cannot understand it. A photo and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: There is bureaucracy and red tape.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I will go through it as fast as I can. The presentation mentions the college requesting a 10% increase on the entrance for the BST in psychiatry and the HSE said it will only be a 5% increase. Why is that? That is the first question. There is a shortage of everything here but it is saying to keep that shortage. I will explain why I am looking...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: On the same matter, is it possible for the Government to put in place a proper strategic plan to assist the farming communities and rural dwellers? As the two previous speakers stated, many people in rural areas have been absolutely decimated. There does not seem to be any cohesion or strategic planning to work with county councils, NGOs and the voluntary sector regarding simple things such...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the opportunity to speak. I commend the commission on its work. However, I am very concerned about the delays. Many Members have referred to victims, but in my eyes they are also heroes for standing up and speaking the truth. More importantly, they are heroes for seeking the truth. What sticks in my craw is that there appears to be delay after delay. Another Deputy...

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: First, I express my complete support and that of my party for this motion. Cost-rental has long been a pillar of Sinn Féin's proposed solutions to the housing crisis. Social housing is simply a recognition that the provision of this basic need is too important to be left to the whims of the private market. How much social housing a state is willing to build is indicative of that...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: The Minister said in her statement that red alerts are rare but if they are so rare, surely we have enough time to plan properly. My mum is 72 years old and is a home helper. She did not know what to do over the weekend but she knew that she had to get to the house to help the family. We did not have a structure in place and were putting people of all ages under pressure to turn up to work...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: We need to put in place a strategic plan to ensure everybody is assisted. In an article posted last weekend, a psychiatric nurse said that psychiatric nurses were bottom of the pile as they struggled to get lifts to work from emergency personnel. She also said: "For some unfortunate reason people must think mental health goes away when the snow comes. Or, maybe we are not seen as "real...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: It feels a bit pointless to be talking about a new Government plan, especially one with such a long-term aim, because this Government is great for planning but very poor at implementation. Maybe we need a plan to deliver on all the other promises the Government has made. A Vision for Change is 11 years old and we are far from implementing that, while our community services are not in place....

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

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I will follow on from Deputy Dooley's questions. Mr. Mulligan referred to value for money. Deputy Dooley was correct in saying that there is only one bidder in the process now so what are the actual risks to the State in respect, first, of value for money and, second, for the entire project if it goes belly-up? In terms of the intervention...

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

Pat Buckley: If this fails, is there a risk to the whole project? Is there a plan B?

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: I also congratulate my comrade, Deputy Pearse Doherty, on bringing forward this Bill. The actual idea that we need legislation to bring in sanctions for people engaged in misleading or telling lies to the Central Bank is quite amazing. It is not because anybody would be surprised that people at the top of the financial sector are capable of telling barefaced lies but we have been so foolish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. I welcome the visitors in the Gallery. Mr. Pablo Rojas Coppari mentioned stigma in his presentation. While it may be thought that stigma is diminishing, I have always said that stigma has been attached to mental health and suicide since day one. When Rashmi was speaking I could hear his life experience and the battles in his voice. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: Let me make one final point. We are talking about stigma, discrimination and so on. As a matter of fact, it is not only minority groups that face such difficulties; there are professions within every sector - the education sector and whatever else - in which people with jobs come to bad periods in life, put up their hands and are then punished for telling the truth. That must also be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Medication and Talk Therapy: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: It is nice to be nice. Debates can often be heated in committees, so this one is a change. I thank all the witnesses for coming in and giving of their time. I love their honesty. I see their optimism but also their anger and disillusion, in that there is a better way to do things but nobody is listening. I am interested in what the professor or assistant professor-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Medication and Talk Therapy: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: In what the associate professor said. Everybody is an individual. Dr. Murphy touched on empathy and also, importantly, on people having choices. We do not hear that too often. It is like having two bars of chocolate and preferring one over the other in terms of whatever works for somebody. That relates to what Dr. Osborne said about doctors not having the necessary time to listen to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be given to an application for a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5442/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (6 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: 408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for refusing persons with MS to be recognised as having a debilitating illness and so receive needed support such as a medical card. [5820/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Yield (6 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: 523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected in motor tax by each respective county council in each of the years 2014 to 2017 in tabular form. [5627/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (6 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: 524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount allocated for road maintenance to each respective county council in each of the years 2014 to 2017 in tabular form. [5628/18]