Results 81-100 of 2,351 for speaker:Pat Buckley
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: It is agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: There are a couple of angles here, one of which relates to the sanitary products they are bringing in. They will be allowed to sell them in all shops but they can only be bought using cash.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: There is something happening on this matter.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: It is agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Chair. The responses back are non-existent responses on this matter. We are still waiting on a number of county councils to respond.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: The interesting thing-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: -----I see from some of the responses is that they are all referring to the Planning and Development Act 2000 within the county councils. At a meeting of the housing committee on Tuesday, 30 January 2024, I asked Mr. Éanna Rowe from Waterways Ireland whether it is the responsibility of Waterways Ireland or the county council to address planning issues. His response more or less...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: Where is the revenue going?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Chair.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: I have made a note of that, Deputy Brady.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: The only floodgates I can see is the other boats out in the water now that there could be a disaster with.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: But he is still fighting.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: I can certainly give Mr. Gaffney a commitment that this case will go further. We will probably follow it up with the marine safety office as well and have Mr. Gaffney back in. He and the other witnesses are the experts in the room when it comes to this matter. I give him a full commitment that we will follow up. The way Mr. Gaffney has been treated is absolutely shocking.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: As I said, for the public outside, this is has been amazingly beneficial. It was extremely informative in such a short period of time. Sometimes we feel a bit guilty because Mr. Gaffney has been fighting this for 15 years. He gets his five or ten minutes of fame in here. It is not about fame; it is about getting stuff on the record. This committee is non-political. When we were setting...
- Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: What about fuel subsidies?
- Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: The Minister mentioned in his opening speech the €305.5 million in support schemes. It is a long time since I worked in a fish plant. We used to process fish in this country that were caught in this country. We have the possibility here of having a more than €1 billion sustainable industry in this country. We are going the wrong way when I hear previous speakers talking...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: 185. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 28 November 2023, if the medical records of a member of the Defence Forces were found to be incorrect and inaccurate, the procedure that is in place to put this miscarriage of justice right; the person or body to contact with new evidence and supporting documents (details supplied) to rectify this...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the secretariat and the committee here because a phenomenal amount of work has gone into this. I am very disappointed that the four witnesses who were invited could not turn up. There is a process there, as the Chairman said, in that the correspondence from the HSE is be forwarded to the petitioner for comment; I agree with that. I do not know why the witnesses did not turn up....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: Agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)
Pat Buckley: That is agreed.