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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...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (17 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full year cost of increasing funding to the secondary roads improvement scheme by 5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8624/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (17 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received the 2019 audit financial statement and audited 2019 annual report from each State agency under the remit of her Department; if not, the State agency that has yet to provide its financial statement and or annual report to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Equipment (17 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be provided for the purchase of additional four-wheel drive vehicles for An Garda Síochána. [8625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (17 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 625. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of increasing the number of community gardaí by 25% in 2021. [8626/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Funding (17 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 870. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of capital funding that has been allocated to the National Forensic Mental Health Service Hospital in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8623/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 868. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide additional remuneration for nursing staff in general practice settings in line with the €120 payment being provided to the general practitioner; and the reason for the position of his Department in this regard. [7044/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (10 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 869. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to direct the HSE to cease engaging debt-collecting agencies to pursue patients who are already under immense financial pressure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7047/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (10 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 870. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE procuring debt collecting services directed at patients in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by CHO in tabular form. [7048/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (10 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 871. To ask the Minister for Health the amount received in collected debts by debt collectors procured by the HSE directed at patients in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by CHO in tabular form. [7049/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (10 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 1020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect Roughfield Wood, Mounnadowna Wood and Dreenagh Wood, County Cork, given plans by Coillte to sell parts of these lands for the erection of a telecommunications mast. [7045/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Broadband Infrastructure (4 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. She was spot on with her figures, and while many of the names of those little towns and villages are a challenge, she was spot on with them as well. On a serious note, I welcome the news of the Cobh-Midleton deployment area and the service being completed. I reiterate that Cobh is an island. It has only the one little bridge to enter it, in...