Results 241-260 of 2,357 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 826. To ask the Minister for Health what efforts he and his Department are making in conjunction with the HSE to ensure the best levels of out-of-hours GP care for regional towns and rural areas, especially in the east Cork area. [35416/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 827. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a commitment to work with his Department and the HSE to stop the planned reduction of out-of-hours GP services under SouthDoc in east Cork. [35417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 828. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the funding provided for SouthDoc out-of-hours services in the east Cork area for the year 2023. [35418/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 829. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the funding provided for SouthDoc out-of-hours services in the east Cork area for the year 2022. [35419/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 830. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the funding provided for SouthDoc out-of-hours services in the east Cork area for the year 2021. [35420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 831. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the funding provided for SouthDoc out-of-hours services in the east Cork area for the year 2020. [35421/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 832. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of any impact assessments or reports carried out in regard to SouthDoc services in Fermoy and the potential risks of the planned reduction in hours. [35422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: 833. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of figures relating to the use of SouthDoc out-of-hours services in Fermoy in the past five years respectively, including 2023. [35423/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I will be as fast as I can. As a Corkman, I speak a lot faster than the rest.

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank Ms Curtis for attending. This has been going on for a long time. What we have dealt with is only part of the file on Owenacurra. There are also parliamentary questions and you name it, not to mention the petititons. Ms Curtis is right. She mentioned suicides. Between 2000 and 2002, there were 69 suicides in east Cork. There were women aged 63, 54 and 33, and the rest were...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I will be brief. The Cathaoirleach can see how angry I am.

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: The point I am making is that Ms Curtis is correct. Somebody has to take responsibility for messing up - I am being polite with the phrase "messing up" - and reverse these decisions, and if something is broken, fix it, and if one cannot fix it, replace it. That is only the structure. One should not remove vital services from the communities because that is where the heartbeat of the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I second that proposal.

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I apologise for not being in the committee room but I was watching the meeting and there was some detail covered. That is the way it is. It is not about giving the witnesses a pat on the back. It is about exposing the point that they knew more about what was going on. They did not have fairy-tale ideas. They had solutions and nobody listened to them. That is the reason I am very proud...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I will be brief, particularly as I am not from Tipperary. I am from Kilkenny, although I did marry a Waterford woman or she, for her sins, married me. Ms Mullins presentation on behalf of her group does exactly what it says on the tin: we are going backwards. I was thoroughly disappointed when she stated that since they were here in January, things have actually got worse. I am...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I reiterate that. Ms Curtis is right that I have approached the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on numerous occasions, officially and unofficially, and even asked her during the last break or so-called recess, whenever it was, in her capacity as a civilian to go in and look at the place. Unfortunately, that request was declined. Ms Curtis is right about how important this is. Of all...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is 2023. That this place in Kiltimagh does not have a water supply is crazy. On top of that, there is the issue of water charges and how that went, yet these people were willing to pay between €1,500 and €3,000. It is simply not good enough. County council workers are on one-day stoppages at the moment and boil water notices are in place in many counties today. I have...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I again agree with the recommendations on this. There seems to be a domino pattern here. I would be interested in what comes back on that response.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: I agree. There is a lot of work in that, given the response runs to more than eight pages. The responses from the Secretary General and the assistant chief executive of Cork City Council seem to be good enough. We will wait and see what the response of the petitioner is. I agree with the recommendation.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)

Pat Buckley: This is substantial. As I said at a previous meeting, we are not miracle workers. We will go with the recommendations and see what we can do about this. It is a difficult process and it has to follow procedure, so I will agree with the recommendations.