Results 81-100 of 3,000 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (8 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 1866. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to establish an Ombudsman for Disability (details supplied) given that at least 22% of the population is living with a disability and/or a chronic illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44587/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 1914. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to award optimum core funding of €240,000 for all 121 family resource centres, to enable each centre to have three core staff on public sector aligned scales plus operating costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45196/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (8 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 1915. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to award funding to family resource centres to allow them to expand their counselling and wraparound supports, through shared funding and implementation of the Roadmap for Therapeutic Governance. [45197/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (8 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 1916. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to develop and introduce a dedicated capital funding stream for family resource centres. [45198/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (8 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2069. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the waiting time for an autism diagnostic assessment for a person (details supplied) has gone from 24/30 months to 30/33 months; and the steps she is taking to decrease this waiting time. [44585/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be allocated to a service (details supplied) to allow this service to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46141/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Regeneration Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 23. To ask the Taoiseach to outline how the recommendations of the Dublin City Taskforce will impact the south inner city; if the task force has an increased focus on the north inner city relative to the southside; if the recommendations will lead to the regeneration of Pearse House; and how the recommendations will lead to increased focus on urban regeneration of derelict buildings in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if vetting was undertaken for the evacuation of Irish citizens and their dependants from Israel to ensure that they were not involved in war crimes. [41010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 1905. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a Palestinian family living in Egypt without legal residency can seek asylum in Ireland; the options available to said individuals; the way in which the State is assisting Palestinian refugees in third countries; and if the State will support this family in this process. [42937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2078. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a Palestinian family living in Egypt without legal residency to seek asylum in Ireland; and if the State will support them in the process. [42938/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 1927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any measures are taken to ensure that Israeli citizens entering the State have not committed, or were otherwise complicit, in war crimes. [41012/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Assisted Animal Reproduction (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to ban surgical insemination of greyhounds; and if so, the timeline for doing so. [42939/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on ongoing legislative work relating to dog welfare and control; and the timeline for when this legislation will be ready for scrutiny by the Houses of the Oireachtas. [42940/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Youth Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2270. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the procedure for establishing an aftercare, over 18, package for a young person in the care of Tusla; the circumstances in which an aftercare package must comply with SEA compliance procedures for under 18s; and if being a director of a not-for-profit organisation is a disqualifying conflict of interest to meeting Tusla...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Legislative Process (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2290. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when the Equality and Family Leave (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill will be presented for debate in the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (29 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 2585. To ask the Minister for Health who is eligible for evacuation from Gaza to Ireland on medical grounds; and if people requiring medical attention in Gaza are eligible for evacuation if they are first cousins of Irish citizens. [41011/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the establishment of this commission. It is very welcome and very long overdue. It is essential that this commission of investigation must be survivor-centred and the terms of reference must be comprehensive and drafted in consultation with the survivors and the representative organisations. Given that up to 300 allegations of sexual abuse in 32 schools in Cork were recorded...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 359. To ask the Minister for Finance to address the unfair disparity in Ireland’s capital acquisitions tax thresholds, which penalise childless individuals when passing on or receiving an inheritance, as the current structure excludes many people whose closest relationships fall outside the group A category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39249/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (15 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 393. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is aware that some residents in Midleton County Cork (Willowbank)missed the deadline for applying for flood prevention barriers for their homes despite the fact that these homeowners paid for their own flood prevention barriers and now have no recourse to claim back the monies they spent purchasing and installing...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (15 Jul 2025)

Pat Buckley: 820. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if funding will be made available to Cork County Council allowing them to install accessible beach infrastructure (details supplied) on beaches in east Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39170/25]