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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (16 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: We are here to discuss just exactly what this enhanced medical card will be for the survivors of mother and baby homes. I know the issue has been ongoing for a long time. Unfortunately, when I say it has been going on for a long time, I mean that none of these people are getting any younger. I am being constantly asked when this enhanced medical card is going to be given to survivors, what...

Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)

Pat Buckley: ...oversight in that regard. When one tries to reach out to access information or help for families, it is not available. To cut a long story short, I reached out to the European ombudsman on this issue and was told it has no remit. It sends you back to the Mental Health Commission or some other organisation. You get the run-around, with no oversight. Is there a way to create an...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Pat Buckley: I suppose the Minister is black and blue from listening to it, but I will cut straight to the chase. The duty of candour has to be put on a statutory footing. In the short few years I have been here, we have scandals including CervicalCheck, vaginal mesh, mother and baby homes, the mental health system and the disability system. It comes down to oversight, accountability and...

Report of the Joint Committee on Justice on GDPR: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2022)

Pat Buckley: ...on Justice entitled "Report on meeting on 27th April 2021 on the topic of GDPR", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 22nd July, 2021". I will start by paying tribute to the members and staff of the committee for their work on the report. It is typical of the unglamorous but important work that committees are set up to tackle. I understand from my Sinn Féin...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2021)

Pat Buckley: Following the publication of the final report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, the Government committed to establishing a restorative recognition scheme for survivors. The Government also committed to the provision of a form of enhanced medical card. Will the Minister indicate when that card will be issued?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Nov 2021)

Pat Buckley: 423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the definition of an enhanced medical card; the services it will cover for those that have suffered in mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56028/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2020)

Pat Buckley: On Monday, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, brought the final commission of inquiry into the mother and baby homes report to the Cabinet. In recent days, I have been on inundated with calls. I ask, on behalf of the survivors and those who have passed, whether the recommendations of this report will be published. If it will not go into the public domain, are the survivors who took part in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jul 2020)

Pat Buckley: The long-awaited report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has been subject to numerous delays. Many survivors and victims have contacted me in recent days and even this morning. They are asking for a commitment from the Taoiseach that the final report, which is promised to be published in October, will not be delayed any further. I ask the Taoiseach for a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (8 May 2019)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister for taking this matter tonight. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the interim report on the mother and baby homes. It is ironic that this week is the 20th anniversary of the State's apology to the survivors of Ireland's industrial and reformatory schools. I want to discuss the major findings of the report, some aspects of which are worrying. I want to get...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Mar 2019)

Pat Buckley: The programme for Government makes reference to the mother and baby homes commission of investigation. Are the relevant Ministers aware that demolition works were carried out on the Bessborough site in Cork this week without the knowledge of Cork City Council? A building known as the little folly has been used as a place of reflection and commemoration by survivors in recent years. I...

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

Pat Buckley: The Tánaiste said in the House today that the strategic communications 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...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: 884. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that all files associated with Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in County Cork are being held in a safe and secure unit; the nature of the storage; the location of the unit; the efforts being made to preserve the physical integrity of the files; if they are digitally stored; and if she will...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...the opportunity to speak. I commend the commission on its work. However, I am very concerned about the delays. Many Members have referred to victims, but in my eyes they are also heroes for standing up and speaking the truth. More importantly, they are heroes for seeking the truth. What sticks in my craw is that there appears to be delay after delay. Another Deputy mentioned...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Pat Buckley: It is a privilege to stand in the Chamber and talk on a very sensitive issue but also one that is long overdue to be dealt with. The first point I want to raise is the history of this country when it comes to women's rights, which has been abysmal and shameful, and I think everybody has a part to play in that. I want to pay tribute to everybody who took a stand in 1983, which includes women...

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

Pat Buckley: If one thing is clear about how we must proceed to address the shameful scandal of abuse, neglect and imprisonment represented by the mother and baby homes which operated in this State it is that we must as a principle accept and believe the word of the survivors of these crimes. I believe the survivors of places like Bessborough, Bethany and other homes. I know some survivors personally....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (29 Nov 2016)

Pat Buckley: 764. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to concerns that the records of the victims of a mother and baby home (details supplied) in Cork are not being stored safely; if there are plans to digitise the records; and if so, when this will be completed. [37312/16]