Results 1-20 of 22 for destroyed speaker:Pat Buckley

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

Pat Buckley: ...? I hope we will soon have dryer weather. I raise this matter on behalf of all the people who have been affected by the flooding. Some of them have lost their livelihoods and their homes are destroyed. They are living in fear every time they hear about "localised flooding". I give credit - and some people might not like this - to the councils, which are limited in what they can do. I...

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

Pat Buckley: ...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: ...and all the areas throughout east Cork devastated by the recent events? I have been contacted by a community nurse who was trying to secure a bed for an elderly lady in need after her own bed was destroyed by flooding. This elderly couple already existed in the "system", so why is a community nurse forced to seek supports elsewhere from a crisis volunteer group? I have been tasked with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (19 Oct 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...east Cork do not have insurance because they were not afforded it after four major flooding incidents that have occurred since 2015 or January 2016. What happens to all those vehicles that were destroyed in this flood? How can people replace them? Is there a special insurance fund that covers these events? Can the Minister of State guarantee that the Government will leave no stone...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...that this is for the public good. It is for the public good. We all have people coming into our offices every day who are absolutely distraught. The knock-on effect of the crisis is that it is destroying families. It is also destroying marriages because people cannot cope with the stress. We cannot give them answers when they come into our offices, because there is nowhere to point...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...engages with the families and also listens to them because I know what they want. All they want is answers. The redacting of information under the Freedom of Information Act for family members must be soul destroying when they are only looking for simple answers as to how their mother died, where did their dad die and whether it was in the same room as they were all the time. These are...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...breaks down and people lose faith in everything. I again refer to budgets. Let us start hiring and paying our own. The minute we start outsourcing to private companies and moving money out we destroy it. We can hear from witness statements that people have no faith in the system. My mother was a carer for years. She went above and beyond, which most do, for a pittance. That is what...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Saving the Services of the Owenacurra Centre in Cork: Discussion. (7 Jul 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...2019. There is a great deal of misinformation and distortion, but the main issue is that we will lose all services for more than 94,000 people in east Cork, devastate the centre's residents and destroy their families. There is mention of three-bed units here and three-bed units there but, as Dr. Kelleher mentioned, there is nothing concrete. It is all just suggestion. We have an...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...have got zero help. Those children's mental health has not been addressed because they are not even getting assessments. The mental health of the families and the children's siblings has been destroyed. I have heard of cases where children were chewing dog leads and eating the bannisters of stairs. The Minister of State may not be aware of this, but during the last Dáil I worked...

Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)

Pat Buckley: Since 1995 my town of Midleton has been flooded 11 times. In 2015 and in 2016 the Main Street was destroyed with more than 400 houses and 180 businesses affected. I have listened to a number of speakers here and I believe it is down to resources, local staffing and local knowledge. The lad with the shovel and the JCB for the country rural road is gone. I also have an issue that we do not...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)

Pat Buckley: ...right President, Jair Bolsonaro, hailed it as historic and one of the most important trade deals of his time. He is on the side of the land barons who have robbed the country for a century and are now destroying the Amazon at an ever-increasing rate, while imprisoning political opponents such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It is interesting that the European Union could not strike a...

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Pat Buckley: .... The children see this and the anxiety levels go up and up. There is also an issue with stigma. We spoke about stigma within the mental health system, but the stigma of being homeless is soul-destroying. This is especially so for young teenagers, I suppose, because they are more clued in when they are going to school. The embarrassment of not bringing friends home starts social...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...has a serious problem with debt. The root cause of this problem is the poverty which is going unchecked by this Government and the inability to provide affordable housing and other basic services. Poverty destroys people's mental health. Last year, a Samaritans report found that inequality was driving people to suicide. We all know that poverty was the real issue. In turn, through a...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...for many of our people. Children have gone hungry, cold and sick due to the actions of these people. Families have been broken up, people put out on the street and honestly earned pensions destroyed. How many people have died in this country because of these actions? How many breakdowns have been caused? How many lives have been destroyed? A price must be paid for this destruction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...in and assessed as having mental health issues, is there a follow-up or are they just assessed and left back out? Is any accommodation or assistance at all offered? It is heartbreaking and soul-destroying to see these people. Most of these people are in a bad place, temporarily. I am also concerned about mental health service provision to people in the criminal justice system? Not...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...have been systematically attacked in a number of ways by agencies of the Irish state and by people working for the state in those agencies ... We have also been the subject of a long and sustained campaign to destroy our characters in the eyes of the public and public representatives and in the eyes of the media. The lesson from this statement, the lesson from the Garda campaign against...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Pat Buckley: An old man once said to me that a bad law was an unjust law. The setting up of Irish Water privatised water services installation, shut down small companies and destroyed work within the local authorities. Irish Water held businesses and local authorities to ransom and forced county councils to give data for residents on the housing list, which was another breach of data protection...

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...unfortunately the opposite is happening. Does the Minister of State know the kind of stress this puts on families and individuals and how many are suffering at the moment? It has to be soul destroying for parents, or a parent, to turn to a child or their children and say, "No love, it is not going to happen tonight, but maybe tomorrow". This is the reality for so many people,...

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...clubs, social organisations and so on. Our own rugby club, Midleton RFC, had nearly 4 ft of water inside it. That club is built adjacent to a housing estate called Lauriston, which was practically destroyed by flooding. Some of the people lost everything. The position is not all bad but there are a couple of points I want to make. On the night that flooding happened I got a telephone...

Topical Issue Matters: Flood Risk Assessments (9 Feb 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...2016 I submitted two parliamentary questions on flooding in east Cork, predominately Midleton. The Minister of State is probably well aware that in 2015, many areas in east Cork were totally destroyed. The main road from Cork to Waterford was blocked for several weeks. The area I want to speak about specifically is an area in Midleton, namely, Towns Park, Mill Road, Midleton. I brought...