Results 1-20 of 185 for long speaker:Pat Buckley

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (30 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...Apparently, greenways are on a lease down our way so there is a chance of flipping it back up. Obviously the demand exists, and I have been lobbied many times by very many people, especially all along the route from Midleton to Youghal. I agree with them that by getting connectivity back and opening up these rail corridors, it encourages outward growth, towns definitely benefit from it,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her long-term plans for the development of national schools in the Fermoy and east Cork area generally to avoid overcrowding and promote the best learning environment for students now and into the future. [23930/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, for being here tonight. I am raising the long waiting list for dentures, specifically for people over 70. I want to go back to a newspaper article in January 2009, which appeared under the subheading: "Dentures will be rationed for medical card holders as part of a wave of Health Service Executive ... cutbacks, dentists representatives...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...Estimates are looked at every year and one sees how much additional money the HSE gets to pay compensation, legal fees and stuff, it is really frustrating for families to be in that situation for so long. They have been very open and frank with me. They have given me full permission to use names and documents. I have raised it numerous times here and I cannot even get an acknowledgement...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Apr 2024)

Pat Buckley: That is agreed. An awful lot of work has gone into that but, my God, we will have to get to the end of it at some stage. It is going on too long. It is mad.

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

Pat Buckley: ...clues, so we will not be able to get the answer. We should then call in the representatives and ask them straight out what is so complicated about excavation. We could go back to Stagg a long time ago, when his body was covered in concrete and they still took him out. Let us call a spade a spade. I am always a straight talker, but I cannot understand this. These people are so...

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

Pat Buckley: ..., 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 and be held accountable. It should be borne in mind that this is taxpayers' money. I have it on the record, as I have said previously,...

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

Pat Buckley: ...because when I heard that, my heart sank. I still get emotional about it because I feel responsible that I did not do enough. We have to approach this as a matter of urgency. I do not know how long it has been going on but these people should not be let down, and those who failed these people should be held to account and held responsible for this because somebody has to pay.

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

Pat Buckley: ...to carry the whole weight themselves. Members referred to mental health and so on. It is worrying and, of course, very stressful. I was on a disability committee in the previous Dáil term along with former Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin. My God, the harrowing stories we heard about families who were out of options. One family had in their kitchen an Alsatian cage...

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...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: ..., they will know I am from Cork and not from Mayo, so I will concentrate on Cork. A number of years ago, I sat on the Cork County Council Traveller committee. This issue has been going on for a long time. I welcome the news that the stage 2 funding is on track and also the other information given in the opening statement. We have discussed this at the committee and we knew there were...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...we can go back to our constituents and say, God forbid should it ever happen again, they will have five, six, or seven hours to prepare for something, that would a start. We know it will take a long time to solve this problem but I will just keep an eye on it. I thank the Minister of State for the response and it is encouraging it is moving forward.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...were not opening the railway. Then the strategy report comes out in which the park-and-ride is mentioned four times and the railway link from Youghal to Waterford is mentioned six times, but that is a long way away. I told those at the meeting to be realists and make use of what they had. I am well used to the one in Waterford that was mentioned here. It is absolutely flying, and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...everybody else. I am not going to name names because I will leave somebody out. The beauty of this - and this is what makes me so proud of being part of the petitions committee, and I said it a long time ago here - is that it is lastchance.com for people to have their voices heard and to raise genuine concerns. Sometimes there could be a lot of toing and froing, dialogue and arguments....

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Pat Buckley: .... Mr. O'Sullivan said that 32 applicants are still waiting for a loan. We have spoken in the committee numerous times about providing alternative accommodation such as pods, which could last longer and be better value for money. The solution requires people to think outside the box. I was very interested in what Ms O'Shea said about the submissions. We have to take at face value...

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

Pat Buckley: ...opened the conversation. I thank the Ministers of State for engaging with the committee and for going out to all stakeholders and engaging with them. Hopefully, please God, it will not be too long before we might be here again having a conversation on the progress report and whether there have been new entrants. This is not a committee to bash people. This is about opening a...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...home. I was asking if, thinking outside the box, people would be interested in getting the likes of pods. I have seen pods that are massive two-bedroom domes, fully serviced and probably with a longer lifespan than a caravan or mobile home. Are Travellers open to something different? I was reading correspondence from Cork City Council on another site in the city. I have no words for...

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 Sláintecare approach is community led, fully integrated and with each service complemented by another. There is a massive vacuum at the moment for our guests. They have been at it a long time now and it is going to take another long time even to get something back. I seriously think that no matter what Government is in place, there has to be a major, realistic push on what...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Pat Buckley: Just to say that it is nice to see some progress being made. The issue has been ongoing for a long time. It has been very stressful. I congratulate the secretariat staff on their work. I agree with it.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Pat Buckley: This has been going on for a long time. I remember one time when we discussed it I said I would write to my own council. I have put the question to it and I mentioned authorised and unauthorised developments on its section of Waterways Ireland waterways. In fairness to Cork County Council, it came back very fast in response to authorised developments but there was supposed to be another...