Pat Buckley (born 10 February 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency since the 2016 general election.
[5] Buckley contest the 2016 general election for the Cork East constituency, retaining the Sinn Féin seat won by Sandra McLellan in 2011 with 5,358 first preference votes.
[5] In 2018, he was appointed Spokesperson on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention following Mary Lou McDonald's election to the role of President of Sinn Féin.
[citation needed] Since his election to the Dáil, he has been a member of the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare helping to develop the Sláintecare report.
[8] Buckley pleaded guilty before Midleton District Court in May 2018 to being drunk and to engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour to a garda in the course of his duty.