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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Pat Buckley: .... I always felt in that committee that the local authority was the one that seemed to be restrained by what it could provide. Some of the Traveller families wanted to be on a site but also needed land for the horses and so on. Cork County Council progressed that project a number of years ago and fair play to it. I listened to what the Deputy said as well. I can understand the local...

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

Pat Buckley: .... It should be borne in mind that this is taxpayers' money. I have it on the record, as I have said previously, that the individual in question admitted at the housing committee that Waterways Ireland is responsible for any unauthorised development. Despite this, the county councils keep coming back with references to Part 8 planning. You cannot involve a county council in a planning...

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

Pat Buckley: May I read that statement into the record? It states: ...if the land, which was taken illegally as it is illegal to take land without planning permission, is land belonging to Waterway Ireland, then it is Waterways Ireland's issue, not the council's issue. Mr. Éanna Rowe replied: The point I was making is that planning and development are matters for the local authorities under...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Pat Buckley: ...are all referring to the Planning and Development Act 2000 within the county councils. At a meeting of the housing committee on Tuesday, 30 January 2024, I asked Mr. Éanna Rowe from Waterways Ireland whether it is the responsibility of Waterways Ireland or the county council to address planning issues. His response more or less indicated that planning is the responsibility of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2024)

Pat Buckley: I will be brief. I wish to ask Mr. Rowe about the unauthorised development on Waterways Ireland land that he mentioned earlier. He stated that it is an issue for planning and for the council. However, if the land, which was taken illegally as it is illegal to take land without planning permission, is land belonging to Waterway Ireland, then it is Waterways Ireland's issue, not the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (18 Oct 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...if he will make a statement of solidarity with people of Gaza and Palestine during this terrible time for them and to condemn the illegal actions of Israel in its continuing regime of occupation, land theft, apartheid and collective punishment which has led to nearly one million Gazan children being without food, water and power. [45755/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (26 Sep 2023)

Pat Buckley: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Waterways Ireland has entered into any contracts of confidentiality with land owners, jetty owners or marina owners in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41497/23]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Accommodation for Travellers: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Pat Buckley: .... Aside from their halting site, they had no place for the horses, which are part of their tradition. We were not aware of that. We got to work with them and facilitate it and tried to get a bit of land close to the site. They then started engaging with the local community, showing them how to look after the horses and there was massive community engagement. I thought that was a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Housing and Homelessness in County Kildare: Kildare County Council (8 Dec 2022)

Pat Buckley: .... I understand there were four meetings with the petitioner. I have seen how the estate was and where it is going now. I understand the situation was complicated when the developer bought the land. We understand that there is a housing shortage at the moment and that there are constraints and restrictions. That said, the final proposals and the amount of engagement that the council had...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (22 Nov 2022)

Pat Buckley: 794. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can clarify if Coillte plans to sell land for a development (details supplied) in east Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57972/22]

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions on Unauthorised Developments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Feb 2022)

Pat Buckley: I thank our guests for attending. The initial petition on this referred to unauthorised development on the River Shannon. Waterways Ireland's statement struck me in that it indicates very little of this property is included on the Land Registry. I am not talking about any individuals or court cases; this is about the River Shannon in general. The bodies that controlled this matter before...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Coastal Zone Management (16 Dec 2021)

Pat Buckley: ...on the area of Ballycotten. We pride ourselves on the coastal area. It is also a health and safety issue that has been ongoing since last February and has not been addressed. I spoke to the landowner and contacted the Minister's Department last year. A contractor would have gone down and removed the ship, with the permission of the landowner, but that was ignored. I have come back...

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister for his opening contribution. While we might not agree on some matters, we can agree that the Common Fisheries Policy has not been great for Ireland. It is archaic and dates back to the 1970s. We can also agree that the latest trade deal, incorporating a 15% reduction in quotas, will lead to an additional loss to fisher of €43 million. We can further agree that...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Pat Buckley: .... That has not come, however, and the EU and its allies fund lsrael either directly or indirectly to carry out the massacre of Palestinians. Palestinian dispossession through home demolitions and land theft are what brought us to the present moment, which began with an attempt to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah on the basis of a racist and discriminatory law....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (10 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: 1020. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to protect Roughfield Wood, Mounnadowna Wood and Dreenagh Wood, County Cork, given plans by Coillte to sell parts of these lands for the erection of a telecommunications mast. [7045/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (3 Feb 2021)

Pat Buckley: ...ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will upgrade the R624 route to Cobh, County Cork to a national route and also upgrade the Bellvelly Bridge to maintain the only land access route to Cobh Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6030/21]

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

Pat Buckley: ...knowledge and the common sense approach that the locals know their own areas. They know the pinch points in rivers, they know where the problems are and they know where the trees will be or where the land is boggy. It is devastating for families. Consider the estate in Midleton called Lauriston, which unfortunately is adjacent to a rugby club that is adjacent to the disused railway....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2020)

Pat Buckley: ...is forgotten. What is the chance of anybody on €208 a week renting anything? They have no hope. This is why I call on the House to support this motion. The motion says to build public housing developments on public land, led by local authorities, to deliver affordable homes, affordable cost rental homes, and to use long-term low interest borrowing from the Housing Finance...

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

Pat Buckley: ...already powerful and wealthy who control our world. Brazil's far-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...

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Pat Buckley: When I was a member of Cork County Council, we discussed one of the county development plans. It was called a common-sense approach. If a family and some siblings wanted to build on land, they should be facilitated if they work in the locality and are contributing to it. It was not an issue because there was a common-sense approach. The Minister of State referred to some of the specific...