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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]

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: I congratulate Deputy Funchion on bringing the Bill forward. I welcome that the Minister is not opposing the Bill but, unfortunately, he is not supporting it either and is sitting on both sides of the fence. What this Bill does, and why it is so important, is that it would immediately provide access to birth certificates for adopted people in the short term before comprehensive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Infrastructure (10 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive appropriate broadband services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12985/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (10 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the most recent figure for the number of persons waiting for motorised wheelchairs in community healthcare organisation area 4. [12872/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (10 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: 838. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of annual funding for the provision of motorised wheelchairs; the model for the allocation of same; and his plans for future funding. [12873/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (10 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: 839. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for the assessment and approval of provision of motorised wheelchairs; and the average length of time it takes to deliver a wheelchair to the applicant. [12874/21]

Committee on Public Petitions: Irish Ombudsman Forum: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses. Regarding the power of the Ombudsman, I was a member of this committee in the previous Dáil and we received petitions which might cross over three Departments. Sometimes the petition would be referred to the three Departments and we might get one reply, then we do not know what ombudsman we are going to. Is there a system which we can tweak so that we can be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: On the same issue, we have the same situation in Cobh. More than 60 appointments for people over 85 years to get their vaccinations were made for last weekend and two surgeries in the town did not got their vaccines. It is very confusing and disheartening for the patients. They are elderly and very nervous. There must be clarity in this regard because it is starting to cause hysteria,...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. We have been here many times and I cannot believe that this has been going on for five or six years. I have been speaking to survivors. They still have no clarity or trust. Some simple redress has been mentioned a number of times in the Dáil. For four, five, six or seven years, or even since the final report, the Government has...

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: I will give the Minister of State a good news story for a change to start. Bernard O'Hehir is from Cork City. I know him well. Many years ago, he went through the addiction services. It is well documented. He actually had to lie to get help - that will tell you how serious the service was. He has formally now just finished a little book, Memories & Hope: my long journey from...