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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Accidents (5 May 2021)

Pat Buckley: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a claims to rights or responsibilities by an individual, body or organisation for the salvaging of a wreck (details supplied) in County Cork; and if efforts have been made to place responsibility on such and the way this effects the salvage and removal of the wreck. [22765/21]

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for her opening speech and for her honesty. We can sometimes have a fairly heated debate in here, but when progress of any kind is made it must be welcomed. It would be remiss of me not to congratulate the Minister without Portfolio, Deputy McEntee, on the birth of her baby boy this morning. I wish to touch on the surge capacity requirements in mental health...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (22 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of outdoor staff currently employed in each of the municipal district councils in east County Cork in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20952/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (22 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of outdoor staff who were employed in each municipal district council in east County Cork in each of the years 2015 to 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20953/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (22 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason recruitment of outdoor council staff in east County Cork has possibly regressed in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20954/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: I wish to raise the issue of school investment. The Taoiseach will be fairly familiar with east Cork and the problems we have with school places and, in particular, the more than 50 children with special needs who have no school places for September. I seek the Taoiseach's commitment that no child will be left behind when it comes to school places in east Cork or to school transport. I...

Mental Health Surge Capacity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler and Minister of State, Deputy Feighan for their responses to the motion. My only disappointment is that while they said they will not oppose it, they are not supporting it. A great deal has been already said so I do not propose to get into the nitty-gritty of the issues. It was mentioned earlier that the Government inherited this crisis and I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 946. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a recent report (details supplied) and its contents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18542/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the findings of a report and its findings (details supplied); her plans to address the school place shortages in east County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an impact assessment of demand for additional school places across the east Cork local electoral area catchment area has been carried out (details supplied). [18544/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 952. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to capacity issues in east County Cork in primary and secondary level school places; if an assessment of the situation will be carried out with a view to increasing capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18548/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 949. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that over 50 children requiring a place in an ASD unit or special school place in east County Cork do not have a secondary school place for September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18545/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an impact assessment will be carried out on the lack of special secondary school places in east County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18546/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Apr 2021)

Pat Buckley: 951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an impact assessment will be carried out on the lack of primary special school places and ASD places in east County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: 1072. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the considerable delay in responses to registration applications on the front-line healthcare workers portal (details supplied); and the work undertaken to rectify the matter. [17042/21]

Committee on Public Petitions: Work of the European Ombudsman during Covid-19: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: I welcome Ms O'Reilly to this meeting. I listened very attentively to her opening remarks and noted with interest her contention that transparency helps to ensure public trust and reinforces the legitimacy of decision-making processes and that any sign of facts being hidden provokes not just distrust but also increased mental stress and mental health issues. She said that EU citizens need...

Committee on Public Petitions: Work of the European Ombudsman during Covid-19: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: How can the Committee on Public Petitions support Ms O'Reilly more, and vice versa, such that we could have a memorandum of understanding on supporting each other? Having been a member of the petitions committee, I am aware of its potential. There is obviously great potential but there is also potential to work with our European counterparts and, more importantly, Ms O'Reilly, in addition...

Committee on Public Petitions: Work of the European Ombudsman during Covid-19: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: That is excellent. I thank Ms O'Reilly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: 853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs secondary school places available in east County Cork for September 2021. [14446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: 854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in primary special schools in need of a secondary school place in September 2021 in east County Cork. [14447/21]