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

Pat Buckley: The mother applied for an occupational therapist when the child was in second year. They are still waiting. The hospital has not acknowledged that she is even on the waiting list.

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

Pat Buckley: Lovely. Thank you, much appreciated.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge: Mr. Terence Coskeran (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I welcome Mr. Coskeran. I can hear a number of mixed emotions in his statement. My background before politics was in construction and I was involved in roads, sewerage, the whole lot. I know exactly where he is coming from. I cannot understand that he has struggled for so many years. It is not that it is a 200-house estate; it is five homes. Mr. Coskeran has done as he said in the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge: Mr. Terence Coskeran (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I can understand that. Again, it sounds very weird. If the council has not taken charge of the estate, why are there property taxes on those houses if the estate is not finished? It is just another issue that I want to flag up. It seems to me that all Mr. Coskeran’s appeals have been utterly and totally ignored. The big problem here is that in this common-sense approach, those two...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge: Mr. Terence Coskeran (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I am grateful for this exchange because this is the relevant platform. The way Mr. Coskeran has been treated represents a total injustice. I will not use a choice word but members know what I mean. Certainly, somebody's head has to roll for this and, in order to explain what happened, somebody has to put up a hand and say he or she made a mistake or otherwise. Rocksprings estate needs to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed. It will be interesting to see what comes back from the Department.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the secretariat and the staff of this committee. Sometimes we run through a lot of stuff at pace but an awful lot of work goes on behind the scenes. That must be acknowledged, as should the research that goes into this, the responses, gathering of data and everything. I put on record that it is appreciated.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge: Mr. Terence Coskeran (13 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I apologise for being late. I have read all of the documentation and have listened to Mr. Coskeran's testimony today. I am nearly as angry as he is and I can see where he is coming from. It is not only Mr. Coskeran and his family that are affected. There are other families affected by this too. Mr. Coskeran had a memorandum of understanding. He signed a deal, a contract. He stuck to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (12 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I second that.

Report of the Joint Committee on Justice on GDPR: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: The motion we are considering proposes that "Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Justice entitled "Report on meeting on 27th April 2021 on the topic of GDPR", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 22nd July, 2021". I will start by paying tribute to the members and staff of the committee for their work on the report. It is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (6 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for being here. This Topical Issue matter is practically self-explanatory. For the past number of weeks I have been making representations on behalf of some constituents of mine on the matter of home help hours and so on. In fairness the Department has come back and sanctioned hours and stuff but the issue is that we do not have staff to fill those hours. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (6 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: I know where the Minister of State is coming from. While I was listening to her I was thinking we should not be bringing these cases up because people have responsibilities and they are in jobs to provide these services. In her response the Minister of State mentioned the DPS. While there is no limit set a valid prescription is a cost to people, which is a separate issue. I refer to the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this today. I have listened to a good few contributors in between committee meetings this morning and I will say something I have said many times since I came in here: the Government is more reactive than proactive. Let us be honest - we do not always agree on either side of the House - but we are all here to represent the people outside this House. ...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Pat Buckley: I was listening to Ms McNelis regarding her mother being locked into the contract of owning her house and that she is locked into a contract so cannot sell it. I am thinking outside the box. As the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications will enforce the law on listed buildings, should it have the capability to instruct insurance companies to insure the buildings? An appeals...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed. It was a fairly substantial response.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed.