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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: No.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: This is going on a long time. It was 1992 or something when this started. I will take up to 2011, I think. The document here has 41 pages. I see the work that has gone into this. The way this family has been treated is diabolical. I will read out some quotes because it is interesting that they are still fighting in 2024. I am reading from p.11: When we met the top two officials from...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: Does that fall within the remit of the committee?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I probably have a source as well, but I would prefer not to say-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes, I will feed it through the secretariat.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I agree with that recommendation.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I agree with the petition. It is heart-wrenching. Let us see what action will come back from it. It is about progressing stuff for people. It is a very sad situation.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I would love to see the response to that from the HSE, and then we might have a better part for the lady and-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: Yes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: No, Chair, just to agree to that..

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: No.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: No, Chair. We need to get a response back from the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (23 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the publication of the Central Bank’s NCID liability report for the full year of 2023 will take place before the end of the current year, in the interest of ensuring a timely consideration of this important data in the context of the Government’s programme of insurance reform; and if he will make a statement on the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I listened to the Minister's response. From this side of the House, I say Sinn Féin will move heaven and earth to fix the housing crisis. He mentioned shared equity. All I will say about that is that we should look at what happened in the UK when the Government came to collect the tab with the number of suicides. It is a dangerous thing. What have we got from the Government? We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Constitutional Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: Thanks very much Chair. I thank everybody for coming in. I am going to start in the middle. I have an admission to make to the Chair that Mr. O’Flynn is a former employer of mine, so we go back a good bit. There is certainly no conflict of interest. I just will touch on a few points because a lot of it has been covered. A while ago we were checking what the European human rights...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: I welcome our witnesses. I have been considering this issue for a long time. There is a massive Irish diaspora living across the world. I can only speak for myself, but the minute your foot steps outside this country, you become more patriotic. It does not matter where you are on holidays. You become more patriotic and it is as simple as that. In its response, the Department mentioned...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: Is that people who are still Irish passport holders living abroad?

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Voting for Irish-born Citizens Abroad: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Pat Buckley: As I said, people feel more patriotic the minute they step outside the country than they do when they come in.