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

Pat Buckley: ...can be progressed further. Do members have any views or is that recommendation agreed? That is agreed and I thank the members. I move now move to petition No. 7 of 2023 entitled “Reform of VAT rate for dog grooming services” from Mr. Paul Abbott. This petition relates to a request to re-evaluate and reform the VAT treatment of dog grooming services which currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Nov 2022)

Pat Buckley: 534. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will recognise that autism assistance dogs should have the same recognition as dogs for the blind; if his Department will consider providing Government funding in line with the way ]guide dogs in Ireland are funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56299/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...see it is personal to them and they have a massive stake in it. The fact is they get back fourfold what they give and it is priceless. I was surprised by Ms Geraghty's story about the assistance dogs because I was at a fundraiser for one in Midleton a number of weeks ago so I was aware of the cost. We are supposed to read the budget submissions when they come in, but when the budget...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...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 with Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin on disability issues...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (11 Nov 2021)

Pat Buckley: ...at the two cases here and I remember the case of Mr. Barrett which was before the last committee meeting. There was substantial information in it. Even in the midst of a Covid pandemic - the dogs in the street would know this - there is photographic evidence showing that there was development on the estuary between 31 August and 28 October. It is from a greenfield site to what looks...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Ombudsman for 2018, 2019 and 2020: The Ombudsman (30 Sep 2021)

Pat Buckley: ...they have always been treated as second-class citizens. A lift or ramp on a bus or train or an adaptation of a bike for a beach has always been perceived as a luxury and not a necessity. I had a dog licence exemption Bill in the last sitting of the Dáil to remedy the current situation which differentiates between somebody blind with a guide dog and somebody with autism and an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services Provision (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: ...for good. The respite unit in Midleton was closed last December by the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, over fire and safety concerns at the community hospital. The health watch dog found the internal doors were too narrow at the former 19th century workhouse. The community facility that currently caters for 53 elderly was required to widen the entrance door to the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Pat Buckley: ...national average is €1,122 per month. The national average rent is going up, as are rents in east Cork. However, the average rent in east Cork is not catching up with the national average. It is a case of a dog chasing its tail. The rent pressure zone legislation must be considered and urgently reviewed. I welcome that Fianna Fáil is supporting the Bill. However, I am...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...model the Government has applied it never will be. A national averaging system is used, and east Cork will never make the national average and so will never be part of the rent pressure zone, ensuring the dog will constantly chase its tail. Instead of freezing rents, giving tax relief to renters and investing in social and affordable housing, as Sinn Féin called for in its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...supplied by Ms Magaharan and Mr. Walsh have left me feeling very upset. The system is absolutely shocking, disgusting and disgraceful and the staff who work in the sector have been treated like dogs. I have never heard so much honesty as I have heard today. I cannot believe that people had to wait 14.5 years for a liaison team. It is 2018 yet Mr. Walsh has said that he cannot offer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...not all about money. When staff feel they have no self-worth in the system, we cannot fix that problem. If we keep subletting these qualified personnel and privatising the service, we will have a dog chasing its tail for the rest of his life. We will be dead and buried and another committee will be in here asking the same questions. How do we fix that problem? Are the unions...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...House in 1967 because she had committed the crime of becoming pregnant in holy Catholic Ireland. She told the European Parliament in 2014 that "The nuns there treated us like you wouldn't treat a dog". When she went into labour, she was locked alone in a room overnight. Her son was stolen from her and placed into adoption just seven and a half weeks after she gave birth. Upon release...