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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: We have the best secretariat. It is as simple as that.

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

Pat Buckley: Two issues come to mind. With any ombudsman’s office, one bugbear I have when asking about power, additional resources or whatever is mental health respite for older people. There is no oversight in that regard. When one tries to reach out to access information or help for families, it is not available. To cut a long story short, I reached out to the European ombudsman on this...

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

Pat Buckley: I asked that question because, specifically in relation to older people and respite mental health services, local community services are being closed down on the basis that buildings are non-compliant, yet the people in them are being taken out of what Mr. Deering calls their home and moved into other places that are actually less compliant. Does the Ombudsman have the power to investigate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: We will now go to Deputy Joe Flaherty. The Deputy has the stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: Who would like to go first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: I am conscious of the time. Perhaps we will take a short break.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: I was waiting for one or two more speakers to come in, although I will probably take my place on the list. It is amazing to have all the witnesses here, so diverse but so firm and so honest, which is great. I have made a number of notes. The assessments of need and the additional waiting lists kept coming up. Ambition was mentioned, specifically the ambition to try to get people to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: Just before Ms Gibney comes in, Dr. McDonagh is right. It is rights-based. We have had it here on certain committees where we feel like people have been treated very badly. They have actually gone to the European Ombudsman and the European Commission of Human Rights. I still feel sometimes it is not within their remit and they will come back again; it is excuses. If we keep thinking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: We were very hard on the witnesses when the Chair was away.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a young child (details supplied) with special education needs cannot get a school escort even though their school transport has been sanctioned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7388/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Services (9 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an arrangement between the fire services and the HSE and the National Ambulance Service to provide a first response service nationally exists if there are no first responders in an area where there is a retained fire service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6293/23]

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...