Results 281-300 of 2,759 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am a realist. Things do not happen overnight. As I said, I listed out events going back to 2000. I welcome the Minister of State mentioning Mogeely and Gleann Fia. I thank Cork County Council and the east Cork municipal district council because they are pushing and working with the OPW on this. The Minister of State's response states...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter. We are back again. I have been raising this issue for some time. I will give him a synopsis of what we are dealing with in Midleton in east Cork. Midleton flooded in November 2000, October 2004, June 2012, July 2013, January 2014, February 2014, October 2014, December 2015, January 2016, December 2018 and the most recent and most...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister for his response in which he stated that, "Ireland is a world leader in the integration of variable renewable electricity onto the grid." Yet Ireland has the most expensive energy costs. A number of the speakers referenced energy poverty. We still have food banks today. I told a story a while back in this House. It was a true story that broke my heart about a...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I welcome this opportunity. I have listened to everybody. I feel like we are chaining ourselves to the asylum and migration pact in the sense of taking an all-or-nothing approach. While there are good elements to it, I have some fears in regard to it. The current system is broken and we have not got it right. We cannot buy a bee in a box because we do not know what will be in the final...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Closures (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the concerns that a company (details supplied) may be closing some of its operations in Cork, if he will investigate the matter and put in place plans to support workers. [27127/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ticket Booking Fees (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: 161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the increasing trend of applying dynamic or surge pricing models in the sale of tickets for music and sport events, particularly through a company (details supplied); if consideration has been given to the possibility that this upward changing in prices during the sale period may be in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses. I was listening to them both. It is bureaucracy personified and that is being very polite. I am normally relaxed on the more profane language but this is plain black and white. I see where the frustration is coming from. The excuses are not based on fact. They are based on the assumption that we do not know, maybe there are bodies there or maybe there are not but...

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes, absolutely. Bureaucracy. I cannot understand why it has to go to the Taoiseach. Is there not a role for the county council in this? As they said, and as I am well aware, they have the backing of the county council and others. The fact we have to be in here discussing this is desperate. According to the OPW: Kilmainham Gaol is a National Monument and an iconic and much respected...

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: Especially when there are managers. We come across it at these committees and in other organisations. People have been appointed into a position of decision making. They have the backing of the families, which is the most important part of it. However, the State has decided that it is not going to do it. I do not know how the witnesses can keep calm because I am very frustrated, and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I suggest that as a committee, we should write to the Taoiseach and seek to get involved here. Surely there has to be a common-sense approach but unfortunately-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes. In this "big house", there is a big, hollow gap of common sense. It does not happen too often here and that is really frustrating. I could be banging doors on this and asking why is it so difficult to do the right thing and why is it so extremely difficult and frustrating to assist with doing the right thing. Given that the members of the National Graves Association are volunteers...

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: It was stated that the then Minister of State's response was very wishy-washy. It stated that requests such as this are of a very sensitive and delicate nature. It does not say to who. It goes on to say that there are a number of matters to consider, both in terms of the significant practicalities involved and the ethical issues. What practicalities? It does not say. What ethical...

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I second that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: Shortly.

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I am happy. The people who have watched us from the committee room are the families. We must do our job.

Committee on Public Petitions: Invincibles Reinterment Campaign: National Graves Association (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I do. There has been a lot of correspondence on this. I know it has come up before, but we are in a possible position of industrial action with Aer Lingus. We are coming into the summer, which is probably the busiest season. Families have been saving for the whole year to go on holiday and are now facing the prospect of not getting to go on holiday at all. We are now discussing an...