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Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I thank the Chair. I thought the Chair would bring Deputy Ó Murchú in before me. I like skipping Deputy Ó Murchú, of all people. This meeting has been fascinating. It has been so valuable for me to listen to this. I was talking to the panel privately and I learn by listening. That is why at this meeting I usually stay for the whole lot of it. I usually try and...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: That is because those other services had to be developed.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 560. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role his Department is playing in reintroducing the Occupied Territories Bill 2018; if this will be reintroduced given the escalation of violence against Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13898/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 561. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps his Department is taking in response to the attempts by the Israeli Government to expand into the Occupied Territories in Palestine; the sanctions that can be placed on the State of Israeli if this continues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13899/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's plans to provide a secondary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to establish a secondary school in Newcastle, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action her Department is taking to ensure the paused building project at a school (details supplied) is delivered at the earliest opportunity given the many delays already faced; and the pressing need for increased capacity to cater for secondary school students in the Newcastle and Rathcoole areas; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can apply to become a carer for two persons, for example, a husband and wife; the process, the criteria and the number of hours per week for two persons combined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12357/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 1224. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) was included in the one-off funding for voluntary and community providers announced by his Department in February; if so, if a breakdown of the funding will be given; if not, the reason the organisation was not included in this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12548/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 1341. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the rollout of CAMHS-ID teams across the State; the cost of resourcing one CAMHS-ID team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13028/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 1501. To ask the Minister for Health if CORU has considered protecting and regulating the title psychologist in preference to trying to regulate individual areas of psychology that is, clinical, counselling, educational and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13826/23]

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I will go first because Deputy Ó Murchú does not trust himself with the time. Tá mé ríméadach an deis seo a fháil chun labhairt le linn Seachtain na Gaeilge. Níl mé líofa agus ní raibh mo chlann líofa sa Ghaeilge nuair a tógadh mé. Nuair a bhí mé sa bhunscoil agus sa mheánscoil, bhí an Ghaeilge ina...

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I was given the opportunity to send my children to Gaelscoileanna in Clondalkin and it is probably one of the best decisions I ever made. To hear them speaking Irish is absolutely fantastic. Go raibh maith agaibh.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: The decision to end the eviction ban just shows how out of touch the Government is with the reality of the housing crisis. What has been done is inhumane and has put unnecessary pressure on thousands of families across the State. I refer to the case of a young mother in my area and her two young children who, through no fault of their own, presented as homeless to South Dublin County...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I asked about the next mother.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: We gave the Tánaiste nine months to get his act together.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on South Dublin County Council's housing maintenance team only accepting maintenance requests from tenants through housing online and no longer taking maintenance requests by email or telephone. [11542/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: South Dublin County Council has moved to an online system for residents to report housing maintenance issues. They are not taking calls or emails. They are not adequately responding to elected representatives. The local authority states there are high levels of digital literacy in the county. I was wondering where they got that figure. How can people, who have not the capacity or the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: Okay.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); if, in his opinion, this will mean that all counsellors and psychotherapists will be exempt from this 13.5% VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12043/23]