Results 1,861-1,880 of 2,761 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (24 Sep 2019)

Pat Buckley: 352. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision to close Castlemartyr health centre is finalised; and the final date for the closure. [38736/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (24 Sep 2019)

Pat Buckley: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has put in place to facilitate patients and service users to travel to Midleton from Castlemartyr, County Cork. [38737/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (24 Sep 2019)

Pat Buckley: 479. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair accessible buses operational in east County Cork particularly operating on the N25 Cork to Waterford and along the Waterford to Cork bus route, respectively. [38738/19]

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Pat Buckley: Only a number of weeks ago, I spoke in the Chamber about the Mercosur deal and highlighted that prices could fall dramatically. Couple this with the no-deal Brexit and we could be facing even stronger threats to the viability of farming in Ireland. Farmers are seeing that the action they have taken over recent weeks is their only option. They see this dispute as the last stand before their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Sep 2019)

Pat Buckley: 787. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the national forensic mental health service facility in Portrane, County Dublin; the completion date for same; if the project will be delivered on time and within budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34709/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Sep 2019)

Pat Buckley: 788. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken during 2018 to improve outcomes for persons with comorbid severe mental illness and substance misuse problems. [34710/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Sep 2019)

Pat Buckley: 789. To ask the Minister for Health the status of developing a no wrong door policy to address dual diagnosis in mental health; and the funding provided in future for services to adapt. [34711/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the witnesses. I worked on the Glanmire bypass in the 1980s and subsequently went on do work in Little Island and Carrigtwohill, and tied in with LotusWorks. I am well aware of the challenges. I could almost tell the witnesses where the ESB cables come down to light up the sign heading down to the tunnel. I want to touch on a few points although much of this is case sensitive....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: Mr. Moran referred to when TII starts building this with an air of confidence. He gave a rough timeframe of three years. That is information for the public. Misinformation seems to swell far more than proper accurate information and there is a perception that nothing has been happening, it is another smokescreen, another election promise and so forth, so I welcome that. I am well aware of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: I again thank the witnesses for coming in, and thank them for their honesty. Two sayings were always being repeated during my experiences on building sites over the years. It was said that one should always measure twice and cut once. That refers to forward planning. The other thing people would say was that if one ever wanted to make a mistake, one cannot sit into a wheelbarrow and wheel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: We need to get into Cork.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh (Atógáil) - Questions on Promised Legislation (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: There are 700 vacancies within the mental health services. We will probably agree to disagree. There is still an embargo on recruitment and the HSE is not offering permanent posts to this year's graduates. This has also been the practice in recent years. Will the Tánaiste or the Minister for Health instruct the HSE to stop this practice? It seems senseless that we are training...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: The Government trains graduates but does not offer them jobs so they are going to leave.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: I will not shout down the Ministers as I want them to listen to me. The deal seems to go out of its way to tick all of the boxes as being the unacceptable face of big European trade. It says a lot that it was 20 years in the making. It is an indictment of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael which have played a central role in the European Union for decades. It also speaks to how grossly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (9 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the dates since January 1991 on which the Revenue Commissioners published advice to the effect that the zero VAT rate for food supplements was specifically restricted to vitamins, minerals and fish oils by concession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29106/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (9 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which the Revenue Commissioners first publicised it had been operating a zero VAT rate concession to food supplements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29107/19]

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and I thank the Deputies for introducing it. Many points have been made so I will cut to the chase. I spoke to many of the affected employees in the past week or ten days. They are absolutely devastated. Some of them have been treated in a disgusting manner. While senior staff met in hotels, these people were doing their jobs. All of a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Save Fermoy Weir: Discussion. (3 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for attending and giving of their time. There is much to take in, so I will try to be as brief as possible. There seems to be some confusion, in that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing at times. My feeling from the presentations is that there are a number of organisations that cannot pull together towards the reinstatement of the original weir...

Committee on Public Petitions: Save Fermoy Weir: Discussion. (3 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: They are directed at anyone who is willing to answer. As I stated, Cork County Council is hindered and can only do so much. IFI has advised on another site but cannot guarantee that it will allocate funding and does not want the weir reinstated to its original condition. If the weir has worked for 200 years, surely, a short-term solution is to reinstate what is there and to go forward with...

Committee on Public Petitions: Save Fermoy Weir: Discussion. (3 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: Ten years.