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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...

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...