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Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion and I commend Deputy Michael McGrath and Fianna Fáil on bringing it forward. I hope Fianna Fáil will support the Sinn Féin amendment to strengthen the motion. We have all heard about the issue this country has with insurance. I will give a couple of examples. Insurance costs are crippling businesses, sports...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services Provision (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue and thank the Minster of State for taking it. I raise the threat of closure, which is hanging over Midleton Community Hospital respite unit and which is causing fear. One of my party's local councillors has been working on this and I will quote from a recent article on the subject:Concerns have been heightened an elderly care unit in east...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services Provision (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: I am delighted with the Minister of State's reply. It will give the people of Midleton and the surrounding east Cork area some solace that there is a full commitment to the unit. I also welcome what he said about the pending building facilities. The Minister of State said that some of the clients were facilitated in Youghal Community Hospital. The capital projects plan proposes spending...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: The programme for Government makes reference to the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. Are the relevant Ministers aware that demolition works were carried out on the Bessborough site in Cork this week without the knowledge of Cork City Council? A building known as the little folly has been used as a place of reflection and commemoration by survivors in recent years. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: I certainly will.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: 13. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to support the establishment of an Oireachtas mental health committee to oversee the implementation of the previous committee's report and scrutinise upcoming mental health legislation in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12390/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: 90. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for the future of Midleton Community Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12389/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (12 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: 470. To ask the Minister for Health the hours resourced and cost per hour of the number of professionals providing dialectical behaviour therapy through HSE funding by area in tabular form. [12416/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (12 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: 471. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further support access to dialectical behaviour therapy across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12417/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (12 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: 472. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the high demand for dialectical behaviour therapy access in the north Lee area of County Cork and the surrounding areas; and his plans for supporting access in this area further in view of the fact that there are currently no psychologists providing the therapy in the area. [12418/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: A Programme for a Partnership Government reads: "For those vulnerable to suicidal behaviour, the HSE Mental Health Directorate should provide a co-ordinated, uniform, quality assured and safe 24/7 service and deliver pathways of care". It goes on, but the line I wish to discuss reads: "This will be monitored and recommendations will be made by the appropriate Oireachtas Committee." This is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: With all due respect-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: -----we have been listening to this waffle for the past-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: No. It is not an appropriate answer. Committees allow for accountability.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: We will fob it off to some other organisation.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: That organisation is the HSE, which is not accountable because it cannot be held accountable.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: This is why we need the committee.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: Who called the shots on it? We are still not getting an answer. This is ridiculous.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Pat Buckley: I welcome this opportunity to contribute. I reiterate the demand recently made on the Government by my friend, Deputy Cullinane, that plans be made not simply for the Irish worst-case scenario if there is no Brexit deal but for all reasonably possible eventualities. This was a fair and reasonable demand already but now, with new developments making no deal less likely and other arrangements...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (26 Feb 2019)

Pat Buckley: Yes.