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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: Will the Minister clarify whether the supplying of medical information on a third party to an employer is consistent with GDPR regulations?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 13: In page 8, to delete lines 35 to 37. I thought this amendment would have been grouped with amendments Nos. 1 and 14, but it was not. It is similar to the amendments earlier in relation to the removal of the six months' employment eligibility criteria. As I said already, it is our view that this will negatively impact on lone parents who may be in need of...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I think we should tease it out further as well.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: It is being pressed.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 14: In page 9, line 2, to delete “26 weeks” and substitute “one week”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 17: In page 9, lines 29 to 31, to delete all words from and including “, and” in line 29, down to and including “concerned”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 19: In page 11, to delete lines 6 to 9, and substitute the following: “request a review of the start date of the flexible working arrangement which may be agreed upon by the employee.”. This amendment seeks to stop the provision or power that allows an employer to push the start date of an agreed flexible working arrangement out by up to six months....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cost of Living Issues (17 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to financially assist persons who have coeliac disease in purchasing food in the context of the current cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57047/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I am a little incognito today, yes. Listening to the Government benches today, one would swear Sinn Féin did not produce an alternative budget. One would swear Deputy Kerrane did not go and fully cost an alternative budget when it came to social welfare measures. It was fully costed by Departments of Government. Listening to what has been thrown across, like much of the stuff that...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: Fianna Fáil has had two years in charge of housing and it has failed. Things have got much worse under the Minister's wardship. The Minister's failure to see this as a housing emergency is a slap in the face to the many people who come into my constituency office daily. They may be trapped in back bedrooms, on long waiting lists for social housing, or unable to afford housing. They...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I encourage everybody to attend because there is no longer a family on this island which is not affected by the housing crisis.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (15 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: 479. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for delays in granting probate or processing applications of probate at the Probate Office and if steps can be taken to expedite the process. [56533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for mammograms following referral by GPs and BreastCheck; if family history of breast cancer reduces the wait time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58506/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €1,000 refund on the student contribution will be given to those who have started a new course and have already completed a year of a different course.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57966/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I also want to mention the situation in East Wall where international protection applicants are being provided accommodation in a disused ESB building. There seems to be a complete lack of planning by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in this instance. We had a similar issue in my own area where asylum seekers were placed in a vacant office building...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: Regarding communications, I entered that meeting in good faith. It was already decided that international protection applicants would move into Dolcain House. I think there was a two-day window between our meeting with the Minister and people starting to move in. There was an extension to the length of the contract for Dolcain House. I was disappointed about the way I heard it and how it...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I thank the Minister.

Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, for tabling this motion to stop the hike in toll charges on our motorways. Sometimes I believe the Government is living under a rock when it comes to the cost-of-living crisis. The crisis is real. It is real for the people of my constituency, who are making a stark choice between eating and heating. The cost-of-living crisis is real for the many who...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: I want to thank Deputy Ó Ríordáin for bringing forward this motion and I welcome Councillor Daithí Doolan to the Visitors Gallery. He is a comrade of mine who, like myself, has worked in addiction services right across Dublin over the years. In all those years we have seen so many of our citizens fall between the cracks. The culture of drugs use has changed. Years...