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Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge (Resumed): Tipperary County Council (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: Surely someone had to sign off on the original planning with the stipulations. Can we get a copy of that document or those documents?

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge (Resumed): Tipperary County Council (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: When the applicants applied for the taking in charge, there must have been a response as to whether X,Y and Z had been done in regard to snagging on the site, whether the footpaths were okay, whether the camera had gone down the sewer and whether the water had been checked. Surely there was a signing off on that. I am asking that because I am trying to support the council. Mr. Coskeran...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed. An awful lot of work went into this. Much work goes on behind the scenes and I thank the secretariat and the rest of the staff because there is a lot of work. We can go through things here quickly enough but people do not see the amount of work that is behind it. I wanted that on record.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed. That is good news.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I sit on the autism committee so I will have the best of both worlds.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I echo what the Chair said. Since I have come in here the staff have been amazing, just excellent. Well done to everyone. Once they move along, I wish them the best of luck.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge (Resumed): Tipperary County Council (27 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witness for that answer. At least we know the council applied. Who set up the expert panel? Was that a Government-nominated expert panel?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: 759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to the ongoing failure of his Department to consistently meet forestry licence issuance and afforestation targets. [53139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Budget 2023 (25 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: 760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in Budget 2023 to support young farmers. [53140/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Summer Programme 2023: Motion (25 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I move: That the Joint Committee on Autism — notes the evidence of parents of autistic children and other stakeholders about difficulties with the Summer Programme and while not having met all the key stakeholders, given the urgency of the current situation, calls on the Minister for Education to: — ensure that all autistic children will have access to the Summer Programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Summer Programme 2023: Motion (25 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: No, I think the motion is self-explanatory and I am conscious of time. I thank the committee for its co-operation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I will be very brief because the representatives sound like they are on trial over on the other side there. I am delighted that all of the witnesses' statements are now up online. The stories have been absolutely powerful. We can hear the witnesses' emotion, their anger and the resentment. They are all there. I thank all of the representatives for their total honesty on it. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: Thank you. That is brilliant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: Our two guests are a breath of fresh air. With their opening statements, their honesty and their bitterness and anger, they have thrown it all on the table and there is not one point one could argue against them, but it is important that the evidence given at these committee meetings goes on the record. Dr. Crawford spoke about a pilot project. Why has that not been replicated anywhere...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (19 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans to extend the roll-out of additional DEIS school status to additional schools in east Cork that were not included in the last round of expansion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52149/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I have been going through Mr. O'Regan's opening statement and there are three points that I want to pick out. I welcome the development of the online knowledge hub and "providing contemporary information in relation to services, resources, and signposting to other essential community and statutory based supports and services". It is grand to be told where to go but the biggest problem we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: When Professor MacLachlan says it is clinician-led, does he mean even a GP or does it have to be an occupational therapist? The professor works on the clinical side but, unfortunately, we do not have in this country a bit of empathy or a common-sense approach. In the majority of these schools, SNAs, teachers and principals go above and beyond because they are with them nearly as long as...