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Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for coming in. What is good about this committee is it is lastchance.com for some people. It gives everybody a voice. I have pets. When Ms O'Connor gave her statement, I thought to myself anybody who breaks into my house would have some job with the two lads I have inside in the house. They are two boxers. I know what it is like. You get attached to your pets...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: It is a legislative change.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: It is madness. I will look into legislative change. I will look at the law in the UK and Six Counties. I cannot see why we could not replicate that. They are our close neighbours so more than likely - I am not suggesting that is where these animals are being exported to but a bit of joined-up thinking and common sense would be good. I thank Ms O'Connor. It is wonderful she can come in...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Reform of Pet Laws (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: I will look it up. There is a generation that is nearly glued to their telephones like pets and they cannot live without them. I can understand the people in the Gallery whose pets were stolen. Chips are being cut out of the animals and they are recklessly used for breeding or baiting.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pupil with autism who was awarded school transport for national school must reapply for school transport when they go to secondary school. [51511/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's interpretation of barring orders and exclusion orders in the context of local authority tenancies, and the consequences for a respondent named on a tenancy. [52028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have a statutory responsibility to remove a respondent subject to a barring order or exclusion order from a joint tenancy; and if not, the reforms that are being considered. [52029/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how barring orders or exclusion orders are disclosed to local authorities, and whether a system is in place to ensure timely communication between the Courts Service, the Gardaí and local authorities. [52030/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities are currently obliged to remove perpetrators from a tenancy where a barring order is granted; and if not, whether legislation is being considered to mandate this. [52031/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are provided to victims and their families in cases where a perpetrator refuses to voluntarily surrender their tenancy despite a barring or exclusion order. [52032/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is considering legislative change to allow victims and families to remain in the home, with the perpetrator legally removed from the tenancy. [52033/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department is reviewing the housing assistance payment and rent supplement rules to ensure victims of domestic violence are not penalised or displaced in tenancy disputes where barring or exclusion orders are in place. [52037/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Housing Provision (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 726. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which barring and exclusion orders are communicated to housing authorities, and whether protocols exist to ensure victims are not further disadvantaged in accessing or retaining housing. [52034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Housing Provision (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 727. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Courts Service has a duty to notify local authorities when a barring order is issued in respect of a joint tenancy. [52035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 728. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to amending domestic violence legislation to strengthen links with tenancy law, ensuring that perpetrators are legally removed from the home, rather than victims being forced to leave. [52036/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 868. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on implementing spinal muscular atrophy screening in the national heel-prick test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51453/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 901. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to allocate funding in Budget 2026 for post-acute inpatient neurorehabilitation beds in the southwest in line with the Programme for Government commitment to develop more specialist inpatient neurorehabilitation beds. [51856/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 354. To ask the Minister for Health to consider increasing the income threshold for the over 70s medical card in view of the cost of living/inflation increases which gave rise to small pension increases over the past few years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51073/25]

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: I like what the ombudsman said. I do not envy him in his job. Over the years we have worked with the Defence Forces and I do still feel for people who come to me with regard to protected disclosures. Has the ombudsman ever worked with protected disclosures or had protected disclosures sent to his office?

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (23 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: Finally, following the story of the Women of Honour breaking, does the ombudsman think people are now more open to making a complaint? Has it made people in the Defence Forces more responsible? Is it the case that people now know that such behaviour is not right and that they should not do it any more?