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Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes, that idea has been struck out.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: Would they have to go back to-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is where I am coming from. I will be very quick and give an example. When I was taking out my mortgage, I had to get house insurance. I had to have an alarm and so on. Those were the regulations and stipulations. The first fire, and only fire I had in my house, was the bloody alarm system they wanted to put in so I could get my mortgage put down. There was a €600 excess to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: We are going to be facing something similar to this in my own town with the recent flooding and stuff. I understand companies have to make a profit but not extortionate profits from the suffering of someone else. Well before the recent flooding in Midleton, we had a flood back in 2015 or 2016 that did a lot of damage. People were coming into my office saying they could not get house...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: If I was a member and I was in the pot of €163.5 million, I would say "I have a good idea - the fire brigades are getting slower to the house fires so we will put up the premiums". It is not a concern that people are going to get burnt inside the house. It is a case of "if we put up the premium, that increases our profit". Do the witnesses know what I mean? It seems to be excuses...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: Very briefly, I thank all of the witnesses. These conversations have to happen sometime. People over on this side of the table think we are taking it personally. We do not take it personally. It is about us doing what we are supposed to do, which is to represent the people who have concerns and get them aired. We are not finished with this one. I do not think it is going to go off the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: No.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (28 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: 134. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department is aware of a former Irish Army soldier (details supplied) with fourteen years' service who has no Army medical records and has informed this Deputy that their medical records were destroyed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52007/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief (23 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: The Civil Defence, the Garda, local councils and everybody else were amazing. It must be acknowledged that the emergency payments to households and businesses have been very well received. It is still a crap show down there at the moment. I will be lucky to have my office open for Christmas but it is only an office and people's homes, businesses and lives have been deeply affected. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief (23 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: Considering this is about flood relief, I acknowledge that I met the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, in Midleton at the entrance to Tir Cluain estate and Moore's Bridge on the Sunday. I want to give a synopsis of why we are here tonight. These are the words of one of the volunteers in the hub in Midleton, County Cork: The events of Wednesday 18 October 2023 will forever be engrained...

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Message from Select Committee (23 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2023: Votes 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18 and 43.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: The reason I let the other speakers go first is that it is their immediate area. I am very proud of this public petitions committee because it is a last chance for the likes of yourselves to be heard. That is what is powerful here. We try not to play politics inside here. It is one of the strange committees because we try to get things done. Listening to the witnesses, there is nothing I...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: The Ombudsman's response is fairly in-depth. I think it will raise a few flags with the petitioners when they get the response to this. The fact that the reading of the Bill was put back for 12 months is actually slowing it down. The Government was more or less committed to trying to strengthen the delivery of services instead of reviewing the 2005 Act. I suspect that once the petitioner...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed, Chair.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is agreed, Chair. That is spot on.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed, Chair.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: Yes, we will see what comes back from the Department of Transport.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: It is a fairly substantial response.