Results 301-320 of 2,357 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the secretariat and the staff because, as the Cathaoirleach said, we do not see all their work on the correspondence that goes to and fro. That has to be acknowledged. It is hard work.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I am very interested in this subject. I spent 18 months watching this because European law had to change and we had submitted our own proposal.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces (29 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the visitors who are in the Public Gallery. I, too, want to read from correspondence I received recently from the son of Patrick Murphy, who is in his 99th year. Patrick worked for CIÉ for 40 years from 1949 to 1989. His job was as a ganger on the permanent railway between Cobh and Cork. He walked the line in both directions every two weeks with a heavy hammer and a large...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: The Mental Health Commission never mentioned the closure of the facility.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I understand that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: Absolutely.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for her time.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I appreciate the response. I am well aware of the three beds and the possible ten beds but we had 22 beds there so we are basically halving the service. It is not what was there before but that is for another day. I was raising the concerns of residents and families. I got information from the residents that people were coerced. The Minister said people were relocated. According to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for her appearance tonight at this ungodly hour. We are back again talking about the Owenacurra centre. I am delighted this Topical Issue was selected. I have been driven to frustration over the past two years between parliamentary questions and committee meetings. I wrote to the European Ombudsman in October 2022. I wrote that I was contacting her office...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Cathaoirleach (21 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I, too, congratulate the Cathaoirleach. I got to know her in the past few years. I can tell that she will make a great Chair. What is happening today has to be an honour for her and her family. People talk about making history and setting down markers. The Senator has now made history and is now living history. When I was a member of Cork County Council, I was a member of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (20 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA or TII have considered a park-and-ride-style model of transport to run from Youghal, County Cork, to the train station in Midleton, County Cork, so as to facilitate a proper public transport corridor to Cork city via the train to Cork city and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29809/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the capitation grants differ so much from primary school (€183) to second level school (€316); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29772/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Policy (20 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering the full roll-out of mental health supports for schools in Ireland; if the establishment of mental-health supports on-site in schools is being considered, with 544,788 primary pupils (details supplied), which equates to €20 per pupil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29860/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I thank Dr. Muldoon for a very honest and in-depth report as always. In his opening statement, he said he was reappointed for the second and final time in 2021. I am sad to hear that. I will raise a couple of cases. There is a case of a family in care where there were three little kids, Nina, Darren and Ben aged 12, 10 and nine years. Their foster parent was worried about them. The...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I have actually submitted parliamentary questions on that and I think Dr. Muldoon answered one of them for me.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: New Zealand started a Beating the Blues programme more than ten years ago.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: I was thinking I might give up this job and take up something like that. I have often said that a common-sense and patient-centred approach is needed rather than ticking boxes. As has been said, the box-ticking has gone mad. You use very resource you can. It is very simple in that if you do not have one, you ask somebody else whether they do. It is about sharing resources, and that is the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: Chilli pizza is more in my line, I have to be honest.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Pat Buckley: No, I am very happy.