Results 141-160 of 2,392 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: I agree with the recommendations on it. We ourselves know that it is right. Whether you are in England or in Armagh, the price of paracetamol is extremely low compared with anywhere in the Twenty-six Counties. I have also noticed that you cannot buy paracetamol anymore in discount stores such as Dealz. There must be some game being played. I cannot understand why generic medicines are so...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: Good morning to all of our witnesses and I thank them for coming in. From my accent, they will know I am from Cork and not from Mayo, so I will concentrate on Cork. A number of years ago, I sat on the Cork County Council Traveller committee. This issue has been going on for a long time. I welcome the news that the stage 2 funding is on track and also the other information given in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I meet the Minister of State again at the handy times and he gets all the handy ones. While I am bringing this up, I want to put on the record that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, also has the full documentation on what I am about to raise. Ms Katie Byrne is a young lady aged 17 from Cobh. She has been waiting for an operation since she was four years old. Katie's family have been through...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I can finish on this one.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: No panic.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I appreciate the Minister of State's response. We have worked on issues before, which he has resolved and for which I thank him. I know we have capacity but we also have capacity and performance issues. Based on this response, I can assure the House that this will not set her back from walking. She will be up and out of bed using a walker within a day or two of surgery. Her muscles will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank all the board members for coming in. I was not here at the start of the meeting but I was watching it. I will go back to Mr. Finnegan's original mention of a border in respect of Waterways Ireland. How ironic that, 25 years since it was set up after the Good Friday Agreement, we are talking about borders. It is absolutely bonkers. There is also the fact that it was introducing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: Can I just ask what happens to families?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: Lovely. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: But you need planning permission-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: Waterways Ireland needs planning permission on the marina.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I will be brief. I wish to ask Mr. Rowe about the unauthorised development on Waterways Ireland land that he mentioned earlier. He stated that it is an issue for planning and for the council. However, if the land, which was taken illegally as it is illegal to take land without planning permission, is land belonging to Waterway Ireland, then it is Waterways Ireland's issue, not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Chair.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for the response and, as I said, I know about the sensors being installed on the pedestrian bridge, the Lidl Bridge, the People's Park, and so forth, and that the drone survey has been completed. I also know a number of CFRAM studies have been done and there has been some engagement on the removal of that bridge. The reason I want to put this on the record, and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: As Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said the Minister of State is really getting the tour of it. Funnily enough I know Lismore, Tallow, Ballynaraha out into Curraglass and on into Conna. My wife is actually a Tallow woman. The Minister of State is really getting the in-depth tour of it and I thank him for being here this evening. I am raising the 18 October flooding in Midleton and the surrounding...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Chair and our guests for coming in today. I love sitting back and listening to all the arguments here. I have to say their case is a no-brainer. We have had the same. I am from east Cork. From Midleton to Cork city, it took us 15 years of lobbying to even get the train back there. It is one of the busiest lines now. From Midleton to Youghal, the greenway is almost ready to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: It is unusual to be getting the thanks and it is unusual to speaking briefly about the Owenacurra centre. To everybody here who has worked on petitions committee, those who are here now and have worked on it previously, I want to say a heartfelt thanks, as well as to everybody out there, Joe Public, the media and everybody else. I am not going to name names because I will leave somebody...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed, Chair. I note there is a lot of correspondence there with the European Ombudsman.