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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...the point about the National Treatment Purchase Fund, but is something more not possible? Families work here, pay tax and pay into the health system. Has the Government thought of putting €1 million or €5 million aside every year out of a budget to cover specific cases like this? We have a duty when there are specialist cases. They are Irish citizens. Could we not have a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Annual Report 2021 and Related Matters: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (4 May 2023)

Pat Buckley: That is very good. There were 4,781 complaints in 2022 and 4,647 of those were closed, with impactful outcomes for customers, including financial outcomes totalling more than €5 million for individual complaints were delivered. It is a good news story. I will definitely touch base with the office because we have a lot of complaints about vulture funds or alternative arrangements...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...and it is the same situation because report after report has been ignored. I would revisit this. The HSE needs to go to the Minister or the Department and say there is a problem here. A figure of €5 million was mentioned. That is pennies in the overall budget. Somebody has to grow a pair of balls here and say what the cost is. This is the financial cost but we also have to ask...

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Pat Buckley: ...to get the truth and the real stuff out there. I will turn first to Barnardos with a question for Ms Connolly and Ms Keane. The opening statement showed there was an 82% increase in stress, a 50% increase in stress at home, and a 15% increase in substance use. This was all during the lockdown. The witnesses spoke about all of the options and the additional challenges resulting from...

Report on Examination of School Costs, School Facilities and Teaching Principals: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2019)

Pat Buckley: ...it. I always have been honest about it because we in this House have an opportunity to do things right. Barnardo's did a survey some time ago and calculated that it would cost an additional €130 million to deliver free primary education to all children. In the context of the large budgets we deal with here that does not seem to be a lot. It would take immense stress off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Deficiencies in Mental Health Services: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...one issue that always aggrieves me. Why can we not fill the teams we have in CAMHS? If we cannot, can we not consider the geographical basis whereby if there is greater urgency in CHO areas 2 and 5 we try to staff those fully first? That decreases the pressure in one area. I realise it could exacerbate it in others, but the numbers are not as high. Turning to the Mental Health...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...unit was set up to communicate with the electorate. Instead it has turned out to be a Fine Gael propaganda unit. We should call it the "huff and puff and do nothing" unit at a cost of €5 million to the taxpayer. This certainly was a mistake. They say that a bad law is an unjust law. The strategic communications unit, SCU, is unjust. The €5 million cost of the SCU could...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...routes, with councils paying out damages to motorists. The headline is good for the Government and €116 billion seems a very impressive sum, but is it impressive? Over 23 years, it is just €5 billion a year. Some 10% of the money is said to be going to housing but, given how little the State has spent on housing in the past few years, this is the very least we should be...

Topical Issue Debate: Counselling Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)

Pat Buckley: The demand for counselling in primary care, CIPC, is steadily growing. The number of referrals increased from 14,407 in 2014 to 17,000 in 2015. Waiting lists for access to a first appointment are long and growing. A total of 2,496 people were waiting for counselling at the end of the first quarter of 2016. Of these, 45%, or 1,119 people, were waiting for between four and 12 weeks; 21%, or...