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Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: They are very good.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: Mr. Bolger mentioned community gardaí and engagement. I know there is a move from the joint policing committees to these new local community safety partnerships. These are being enacted across the local authorities now but the destination has not been reached in this process. Do the witnesses think a vacuum has now been created between community gardaí and the communities they...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: I am a member of the South Dublin County Council joint policing committee and I can honestly say we have not sat since April 2024, more than a year ago now. To me, there is a vacuum there in this regard. Members of Mr. Bolger's organisation who I meet in regular engagements, at the late-night soccer leagues mentioned that were mentioned and so on, have told me they are also noticing there...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: I absolutely will do so.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update of the transfer of a plot of land in a school (details supplied) from her Department and the Dublin Education and Training Board to the HSE that is required to progress the delivery of a primary care centre in north Clondalkin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32236/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 860. To ask the Minister for Health if givinostat (details supplied) will be made available for children Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 824. To ask the Minister for Health the specific arrangements she has in place to ensure social care services for the elderly are delivered in a manner consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability, in particular Article 3, Article 4, Article 5, Article 9, Article 19, Article 20; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 907. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider running a pilot orphan drug early-access programme in order that children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy can access givinostat; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32665/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: I want to raise the issue of an email I received from my local authority last week regarding an email from the Department of housing saying that the local authority was not to proceed with 73 social homes and a community building under PPP bundle 3 at a site in Ardrew in my hometown of Athy. My understanding is that in this case the preferred bidder was selected as long ago as last October....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: I first attended St. Kevin's 37 years ago and these prefabs were in situ when I went to school. It is a school in an extremely disadvantaged area, but one that often punches above its weight. In fact, the Taoiseach visited the school last year to see the award-winning DEIS Connect programme. I wonder whether he knew there were kids in 50-year-old prefabs out the back. As I said, I used...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: Okay.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: It has been completed. I am again going to press to see when these prefabs are going to be replaced. Will it be in the next six months, next year or the year after?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the application from a school to replace their 50-year-old prefabs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30986/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: I am asking for an update on the application from St. Kevin's Community College in Clondalkin to replace their 50-year-old prefabs. These prefabs are old. They are not fit for purpose. They are not a good learning environment for pupils or a good working environment for teachers. I have health and safety concerns that I have reported to the appropriate authorities. When will these...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: I am a former pupil of St. Kevin's Community College and have been working with the school for a long time - not just since 2024 - to get these prefabs replaced. The school and I have been receiving some contrasting information from the Department in the last months. In April, a communication referred to when the school had appointed a design team and the site presenting technical...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 34. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for recruitment of air traffic control staff at Baldonnel Aerodrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the Department's decision to not provide school transport for students of a school to their temporary location (details supplied), to outline the alternative options available to families for transport to the temporary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 494. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA has the ability to prosecute entities under its remit who act outside of regulations in a nursing home setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31343/25]

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: I would have been all over this Bill had it been brought before the House last year, when I was still the spokesperson on mental health. I will ask a question and I presume it is in this Bill because it is about involuntary admissions and the lacuna as regards the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act. If the Minister of State remembers correctly, there was a lacuna between that Act and...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: For too long, members of An Garda Síochána have been the gatekeepers for mental health services. When I speak to gardaí in my constituency, which I do on a regular basis, one of the issues they raise is when people arrive at the station under mental duress and they try to help them. A psychiatrist will sometimes come out to a Garda station and may or may not make a decision...