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Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I am very happy with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (3 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I want to raise the transition from primary to secondary school. The Minister of State mentioned forward planning. We all have access to the constituency planning database. We can see data on age and health demographics. Do the Departments use that information for forward planning? We can look at it at the constituency level and find out how many children from a certain age group have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (3 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I will forward the information to the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (3 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State. As I said, I appreciate it. The Minister of State needs this information and we are giving it to her. We will work together. It is excellent.

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister for his opening remarks. The is a fairly in-depth Bill. I thank everyone who was involved in this process. I have spoken in the Chamber many times. Sometimes we can work together and achieve great things. We are going in the right direction but, unfortunately, what happened in the past has brought us to where we are now. Nearly 30 years ago, I worked with my dad....

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Independent Group for bringing the motion forward today. It is nice to have a commonsense approach. It is the Irish way here to try to fix something that is not broken. It beggars belief that we could have a private company doing this because 99% of the time privatisation equals profit; it is not about providing proper service. As previous speakers have mentioned, there are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (2 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) who was in possession of a full medical card which expired during Covid was only reissued with a general practitioner visit card despite the fact that their medical needs did not change over the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (2 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards that have expired during the Covid-19 restrictions; the number that have been reissued during the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11846/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (2 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: 168. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who were in possession of full medical cards during Covid-19 restrictions whose cards had expired during the restrictions were reissued with a general practitioner visit card only; the rationale for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11847/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I wish to flag an issue that has arisen since we came out of the pandemic. Many elderly people's medical cards have expired. These are full medical cards but when those people go through the process of getting them reissued, they are being issued with GP visit cards only. Those people were eligible for full medical cards before the arrival of Covid-19 but now they have expired, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: I have a number of examples. I will go to the Department with them.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (1 Mar 2022)

Pat Buckley: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that no provider in east County Cork can provide 30mb of speed to a housing estate (details supplied); if his Department will undertake an investigation on his behalf; if the premises will be included in the fibre rollout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11627/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Protected Disclosures (22 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: 88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to serious concerns over the perceived failure of the Health and Safety Authority to respond to protected disclosures made in relation to dangerous work practices; and the steps he is taking to ensure that protected disclosures are dealt with in a prompt and serious manner. [9314/22]

Committee on Public Petitions: Election of Vice Chairman (17 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: I apologise as I could not get into the meeting for some reason. I had to leave and enter the meeting again. I congratulate Deputy Devlin, who has a bit more weight on his shoulders now. I am sure he is well able to carry it. Well done.

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: I will be brief. I thank Mr. Feeney for his honesty - he is breath of fresh air - and for all the great advertising for the real capital, Cork. Everything I wanted to ask has been well covered and Mr. Feeney addressed it nicely, bluntly and honestly. I thank him once again. I have learned a lot today.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the secretariat for a fairly comprehensive reply and recommendation with which I agree.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Chairman, the secretariat and the members of the committee for an excellent meeting today. I am certainly more educated leaving than I was when the meeting began.

Mobility and Transport Supports for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (16 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: I listened to the Minister of State's statement in which she spoke about root and branch change. Certainly, that must happen. When I was listening to the other speakers the question of the definition of disability and how we describe it came into my head. It is quite a pertinent question. We have mentioned many other issues people have that do not fall under its remit at present. It is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Protected Disclosures (16 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister very much for his response. It is not too often we get excited in here. We usually get heated rather than excited. However, as Deputy Mairéad Farrell has said, we can work together to make the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 the gold standard. It is about protecting people. I welcome the fact that the Minister has said he is looking at existing cases...