Results 41-60 of 2,351 for speaker:Pat Buckley

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: I forgot to mention the list of correspondence of the county council about alleged unauthorised developments in respect of Waterways Ireland. Has that list been completed yet? This is starting to stretch out. I have been trying to get information on it through a freedom of information request and I have basically been blocked legally from obtaining answers. I have photographic evidence of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Sorry, Chair, for cutting across you. My frustration is that I received the response to the freedom of information request only yesterday, and it politely tells me to - you know the two words I would use. It hides behind legal threats again, and we have had that in committees before. That is why we amended the committee's powers a long time ago to give it the strength to bring people in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: I know that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: May I read that statement into the record? It states: ...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 council's issue. Mr. Éanna Rowe replied: The point I was making is that planning and development are matters for the local authorities under...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: This is not about holding a competition or going after certain parts of the Department. Not all committees are in place to find out what people are hiding or not doing right. It is about trying to facilitate ideas and things that may happen outside the box. We can go on the record here and say that as legislators, if we had been told this, we could actually make provisions within the law...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Sick to the stomach is the way I described it when we listened to the witnesses. However, what was more terrifying about it was the way they were treated. Something like nine boats came out of this factory. It is similar to the national car test, NCT, and four of these boats practically failed the NCT and were allowed out. Nobody is being held responsible for that. That poor man spent...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes, and it beggars belief. I know the lady, Emily O'Reilly, because we have worked with her previously. She is very thorough. I do not know whether it has been flagged with the European Ombudsman. It goes back a while before her tenure, so it might have been dealt with by a different ombudsman. I would suggest that if she does not have that information, we might flag it up with her as...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: We should reiterate the possibility that there are three more ships out there, that families' lives are at stake and that nobody is doing anything about it.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (20 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when works will commence in relation to each of the new rail stations of Blarney/Stoneview, Monard, Blackpool/Kilbarry, Tivoli, Dunkettle, Carrigtwohill West, Water-Rock, Ballynoe under the Cork area commuter rail programme; when each station will be open and operational, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: 582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department can extend the deadline for the voluntary redundancy scheme for local authorities' water staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11534/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for being here. The report contains 109 recommendations, but the committee probably could have made more. A great deal of work went into the report, which is a blueprint for how the services should be run. It tells the true life stories of the witnesses who appeared before the committee, provides details of the expert reviews and so on. This was probably the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: I have raised this issue in the Dáil before. Five weeks ago, I raised a Topical Issue matter regarding a young lady who was 17 years old. Her name is Katie Byrne, and she has been waiting for a hip operation for 14 years. That is absolutely bonkers. In that Topical Issue debate, I said to the Minister who was substituting at the time that I had approached the Minister, Deputy Stephen...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: It was sent directly to the Minister's mailbox.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flood Relief Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: 248. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria for applying for humanitarian assistance after the recent flooding in east Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10052/24]

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State for being here. In fairness, it is not easy. I listened to most speakers today and to the Minister of State's opening statement, and it is true. People still hear it said that it is impossible to commit suicide in Ireland. It is actually impossible; a person cannot commit suicide in Ireland, since it was decriminalised in 1993. I want to put on the record...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (27 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Waterways Ireland is in the process of issuing a licence to the Portaneena Marina based in the Killinure Lough off Lough Ree outside Athlone (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8726/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (27 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8727/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the vacant property refurbishment grant, particularly in relation to Cork County Council; the stage of applications at present, particularly in relation to a person (details supplied); the number of applicants who have drawn down and received the grant to date; and if he will make a statement on the...