Results 2,561-2,580 of 2,774 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: They voted against it. We asked for €37.5 million in funding and they voted against it.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: We proposed 24-7 intervention services and they voted against that too.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: He is well over time.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: Will the Taoiseach support it?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abuse in Hospitals (23 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: 414. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to issue an apology or support for a person (details supplied) who suffered abuse as a young woman in a hospital. [24188/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: I am not a member of this committee but I came today as an observer. My brief within Leinster House is on mental health, about which I am very passionate. I worry about one or two things but first I congratulate the witnesses on their honesty and frankness. We need to know these things so we can react. It aggrieves me why disability issues always have to come under the HSE and Senator...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: What is Ms Lennon's view of sheltered housing in that context?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (10 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the details of calls to ambulance services from prisons here in each of the years 2014 to 2016 in tabular form. [22237/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (10 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: 267. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of calls to ambulance services from youth detention centres in each of the years 2014 to 2016, in tabular form. [22238/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (9 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: 299. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of Defence Forces personnel that received family income supplement in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [21988/17]

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: I will do my best with two minutes. It is the job of a Government and a State which claims to be a republic, to treat all its people equally, with an equal right to housing, health care, education and other essential services which we depend on to live and prosper. The running down of Bus Éireann is salient in this regard. Bus Éireann is in the Government's cross hairs because...

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: Can the Minister of State come back to me on it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: A 16 year old child spent a night on a chair in an overcrowded acute adult mental health unit in Waterford. The practice of placing children in adult mental health units has been described as inexcusable by the inspector of mental health services and the Mental Health Commission told the Government to end it six years ago. There is a Bill on the Order Paper, the Mental Health (Amendment)...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (3 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: 45. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHTs operating across the State; the number of these which have a full complement of staff; the number of vacant positions; the length of time they have been vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20711/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (3 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the delivery of a new recovery-based model for the treatment of dual diagnosis or mental health and addiction in the HSE's services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20712/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (3 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons (details supplied) are unable to access the school transport scheme to attend a school. [20953/17]

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Pat Buckley: I welcome this Bill and commend Deputy Browne on bringing it forward tonight. The issue of mental health involves so many strands it can be difficult to decide what reforms are most pressing, especially in the context of trying to find potential reform that can be accepted by the House, whose Members do not always see eye to eye and can often seek to find any problem with proposed...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Pat Buckley: Quack, quack, quack.

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Pat Buckley: The frequency of serious scandals coming from the Garda in recent years is truly shocking for many people throughout the State. While historically working class communities have been aware of the potential for some gardaí to abuse power, cut corners or misuse their positions, for many in middle Ireland this has been a grave surprise. The Garda top brass have proven themselves utterly...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (12 Apr 2017)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I am also satisfied that the HSE is making every effort to address this important issue. This is not a personal attack on the Minster of State but I am somewhat aggrieved. I have some experience of working within the system. I listen to people on a daily basis who are qualified for these jobs. It seems to me that there is no will to hire these...