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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I agree with that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: No.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, for being here tonight. I am raising the long waiting list for dentures, specifically for people over 70. I want to go back to a newspaper article in January 2009, which appeared under the subheading: "Dentures will be rationed for medical card holders as part of a wave of Health Service Executive ... cutbacks, dentists representatives...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State. I respect the response outlined. I am well aware that new dentures can be provided every five years, but that is if a patient can access a dentist. That is the issue here. Then there is the medical stuff that goes with it. Oral health is vital. The Minister of State's written statement reads, "The HSE is required to support the provision of emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: 527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the lack of preschool places in Youghal, County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21676/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (14 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: 600. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is aware of a new shift work teams project in the Cork and Kerry home support services which is to begin in June this year and that this new initiative involves rotating five people within the teams over a four-week period (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21540/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: The name of the report, Falling Behind, explains it all in terms of children's rights and we are in 2024. I wish to follow on from what the Chair was talking about with regard to mental health, the Mental Health Commission and CAMHS. Was that clinical audit of all the CAMHS teams ever done? I ask because in my former position as a member of the mental health committee here, which was a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: Absolutely, yes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: The problem was that it is in America. It is not within the European Union.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I even know the figure. The total package is approximately €300,000. When the budgetary Revised Estimates are looked at every year and one sees how much additional money the HSE gets to pay compensation, legal fees and stuff, it is really frustrating for families to be in that situation for so long. They have been very open and frank with me. They have given me full permission to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: Chair, can I come back in on that?

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: Dr. Muldoon mentioned €150,000, which you would find on the back of a stamp in here. That is how little money it is. As I said earlier, I do heed the requirement about investments.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: In the Revised Estimates for 2018 an additional €250 million was given to the HSE. This was not to improve services, if you know what I am saying. It was not as much last year; it was around €56 million. It just goes to show how money is not being spent properly when we have this document ready to go but we cannot get it done for a couple of hundred thousand euro. We speak...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I want to correct the record. I made a mistake earlier.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I did.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I put my hand up straight away. The Minister of Health passed on my case to another Minister. That is the only response I did get. I must give credit where it is due. Like Dr. Muldoon's experience, when a Department is contacted, it is not their responsibility and issues go from one Department to another. I just wanted to put that on the record.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: We will make the headlines with that one.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: It will be interesting to see what response comes back.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I agree that there is a great deal of correspondence. Many responses that came back are regulations about how they do X, Y and Z, but nothing real or formal. One of the responses indicates that under SI 460/2009, "The AAIU shall be functionally independent of the State aviation authorities responsible for the operation or regulation of airworthiness, certification, flight operations,...