Results 901-920 of 2,772 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: I am sorry for cutting across but that seems to be the issue. We might as well put this on the record again. At the moment, the HSE is taking people out of buildings that are more compliant and putting them into buildings that are less compliant. That is absolutely bonkers to me. I do not know how the HSE is getting away with it. I have written to the European Court of Human Rights...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: It makes for difficult listening. I was honoured enough to sit on the committee that produced the Sláintecare report. I could use choice words here but I will not. I am looking at a HIQA inspection from 2018. The report on St. Brigid's Hospital, Portlaoise, from 2021 is practically identical until it comes to the premises. Inside the premises, the staff and everything else are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: The problem is that guidelines are fine but if they are not constantly followed and if all the people involved, including those on the front line plus the management, Garda and Health and Safety Authority, are not communicating on a regular basis then the system falls behind.

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: I will make a very quick comment. I thank everybody across the House. I enjoyed listening to their contributions and I welcome the comments of the Ministers of State. I will put on the record, and the committee is very proud of this - Senator Carrigy was the driving force behind it - that Leinster House is now in the process of becoming autism friendly. I thank everybody in the Houses,...

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Autism entitled "Report on the Summer Programme 2023", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 28th November, 2022. I will be brief because I am sharing time with Senator Carrigy. This is a motion on the Joint Committee on Autism's report on the summer programme for 2023....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (31 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: They say that they always save the best for last, so we will see. I have raised this issue in the Chamber numerous times. It is the boil water notices in east Cork, specifically in Whitegate. I want to give the Minister of State a synopsis of what is going on. It started on 14 February 2016, so we are coming up to the seventh anniversary of these boil water notices. The following is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (31 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I spent 22 years in sewerage and water so I know the craic on it. My area has Whitegate oil refinery, the power station and the gas station. There are alternative water sources of water and I am wondering why Uisce Éireann did not look at those as an alternative or short-term fix. One line could be tapped into the other. The area where the problem is could be blanked off and flushed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank our guests. I do not know how they got so much information into just 88 pages of the expert committee report, Creating Our Future. The level of engagement during Covid-19 was unbelievable. The topics are mind-blowing, from diagnosing younger children with autism to certain tests for Traveller women who wish to breastfeed, right across the spectrum to green energies. Regarding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I do not need to be praised, I did not do any work on this, I only read it. Science Foundation Ireland gets the credit.

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I will go straight to the punch. The following quotes appeared in a media report, and I thank Dr. Susan Finnerty of the Mental Health Commission for her contribution to that. The report states: A deep dive into mental health services for children and young people in Ireland has shown several regions in the south - including Cork - to be facing very serious issues that could be placing...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: There was a lot of anger from many people from various sections of society outside Leinster House today. I will cut straight to the chase. Investment funds or vulture funds, whatever they are called, are again making profit from taxpayers' money. It is as simple as that. Here we go again. Our natural resources for use by the Irish people are being given away or are being chipped away by...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (25 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I will raise an issue about first responders. In Cobh in east Cork, which has a population of approximately 14,000 people there is a retained fire service but there are no first responders. The fire service is trained in first aid and first response. There was a case over Christmas where someone suffered a cardiac arrest. I spoke to members of the fire service. They were frustrated that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (25 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I will raise a few points in the short time I have. The retained fire services are well placed to assist the HSE with responses to such life-threatening emergency calls. There does not seem to be any obstacle to that. The National Ambulance Service is simply protecting its patch. I have not heard of any engagement between it and the fire...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the ladies for today. I am conscious of time so I will go straight into it. In Ms McDonagh's opening statement, she referred to holding the Government to account. I would like to know how Inclusion Ireland is getting on with that. It is probably a short question but a tricky one. There was also mention of gathering better data so as to plan properly for disabled children. Each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: No, it was a report she was waiting for. We can come back to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes, something that has not been published yet. She mentioned some report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes. The final question is one I have probably had for months now. It is to do with children in school. With autism or disability, where a child has assaulted a special needs assistant, SNA, and the SNA has to be put off, there does not seem to be a one-fits-all plan with schools, be it either a special school or a public school. I just cannot get the child in. I cannot tell the mother...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: I am sorry for cutting across but in fairness, the school engaged. However, it is again down to resources.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: As the school could not provide the additional resources, including even a temporary changeover SNA, that child has regressed because they have been at home and that is obviously affecting family life and the mental health of the parents and so on. You just feel like it is hopeless.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: What about the optional protocol? How does Ms McDonagh feel about that? It seems to be a big bugbear. We have been trying to push the Government to deal with it. It is grand to say that people have a right to something but without addressing the optional protocol, it is only a right on paper. Someone can be approved for a three-bedroom house but if it has not been built yet, the person...