Results 81-100 of 502 for cork speaker:Pat Buckley

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...school transport, which is a major issue for children with autism. There is a particular difficulty for children transitioning from primary to secondary school. To give an example, Cobh in east Cork has 30 to 35 students going to Carrigtwohill but there is no bus available because the school is outside the catchment area. There are two schools in Cobh but the students cannot get into...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (25 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will explain the rationale and reasoning behind issuing a section 24 letter to the TII as part of the roads allocations to County Cork for 2023, which effectively overruled TII’s proposal to fund the Mallow Relief Road to the amount of €1.4 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19406/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health and Safety (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, in order to get it over the line. The HSA has not done its job properly. Health and safety in this area was mentioned as long ago as 19 March 2022 in a motion adopted by Cork City Council. The latter raised the concerns relating to this issue. The matter went to the Labour Court before that in the context of recognition of the union in order that it...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in east Cork in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and planned number to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular form; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...a difficulty in getting information out that there is a specific line for people with autism, who can go on a specific housing list. How do we improve that? Is it done in an ad hocway? I live in Cork, so the local authorities in my area are Cork County Council and Cork City Council. They are very different, even though they are in the same county. The organisations represented here...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with European Ombudsman (23 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...spoken to her, namely, the health centres, and so on. She may remember that I mentioned a mental health and respite centre for old folks, the Owenacurra mental health centre in Midleton, County Cork. If I send the details to her, can the European Ombudsman give me a commitment that she might even look at it, because I believe it is a human rights issue?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...small estates and around the country in other small estates. This is what is holding up progress. I will try to be brief on this but I can remember going back to a country development plan in Cork County Council at one stage where there was a proposed development in Monard outside Blarney. That is not even my constituency but it was part of the county development plan which had proposed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...start out on a very low rate and it is expensive for them to get to work. Years ago, people worked and did apprenticeships locally in their nearest town. I know one fellow who had to travel from Cork to be in Meath at 9.30 a.m. just to get his book stamped before coming back down to Cork. These are all added expenses. We have a minimum wage but it does not apply to apprenticeships....

Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...it goes. We in public life know this because rules, regulations and certain standards are set out in black and white. I will give an example. I nearly got murdered one time on an estate in east Cork because I brought in a rule book to deal with speed bumps on housing estates. It stipulated that there could not be a bus stop, because there had to be a minimum of 500 m of straight road....

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

Pat Buckley: ...I cannot believe the comments as regards opinions. I am not talking down to the witnesses but this seems to be systemic. There was mention of a HIQA report in the last two years. I am in CHO 4, which is Cork and Kerry. We have a fully integrated mental health respite centre in the town of Midleton in County Cork and because of a HIQA report and a Mental Health Commission report, the...

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: .... It does not make sense. It is necessary to go back to what we do when we go knocking at the door, to call to them the same as the postman. What I would say on behalf of the people of east Cork is that everywhere there are boil water notices they want answers and assistance. They want clarity. They do not want constant bad news. They certainly do not want to wake up every few weeks...

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

Pat Buckley: ...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 kids at risk. ... A failure of management and governance was leading to what the report called "inefficient and unsafe” CAMHS...

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: ...knows where I stand on the HSE. It is bloated at the moment. What I am trying to do here? As a local representative I would like, if possible, to meet the National Ambulance Service, the HSE, Cork County Council and the fire service in east Cork to tell them we need a strategic plan. We are short of certain resources but have the capability to fill those gaps. Yet the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (24 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: .... To ask the Minister for Health if the results of a pilot scheme launched on 1 October 2022 was a feasibility study of the ambulance service bringing patients to Mallow General Hospital instead of Cork University Hospital in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2743/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...of sitting on the Sláintecare committee, I am listening to the witnesses today and I have listened to this before with other centres. There is a trend now coming between Carrick-on-Suir, east Cork and, a couple of weeks ago, west Cork, in Bantry, where there was something similar with mental health beds. It is the same thing: when these services are lost, they are gone. The...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir: Save St. Brigid’s Action Group (19 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...;The current building simply did not allow for the kind of care and recovery that a modern service should provide. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic...” There was no Covid-19 pandemic in east Cork in 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019. That is what I mean by using excuses. Our guests are being fobbed off. I do not know what the HSE's plan is for the building but I guarantee it will...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...a health crisis. As I raised with one of the Ministers of State in a Topical Issue debate before Christmas, we have excessive deaths in nursing homes, in particular in CareChoice in Ballynoe, east Cork, with no independent inquiry, so there is nothing moving forward there. Last October, there was a pilot project and a feasibility study on ambulance services bringing patients to Mallow...