Results 201-220 of 282 for speaker:Charles Ward

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: September is a very exciting and important month for many children as they return to school. For some, however, the excitement has been unfairly and cruelly stripped away as their parents struggle to find appropriate school places for them in their localities. As a parent, I cannot imagine the heartbreak facing parents who are unable to secure such places for their children. The Minister...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: I am not going to mince my words. The defective concrete scandal is a national emergency the Minister's Government wilfully mismanaged for over a decade. The Government has worked hard to fool the public and portray that we are being looked after, but the truth is we are now in the second failed scheme. My staff see suicidal ideation every week in our office. The uncertainty and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: We have unethical engineering going on in this scheme. That cannot be denied. A number of people were downgraded. They were granted full demolition. An engineer came out, did their job, examined it and then it was passed over to the Housing Agency. Someone in the agency looked at that fellow engineer's work and then downgraded it. This is unethical. It is unethical engineering. What...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion today. I fully support it, particularly its call for budget 2026 to commit €630 million towards measures to relieve child poverty and homelessness, as well as its call on the Government to introduce a total ban on evictions of children into homelessness, and the legislation to prioritise housing needs of homeless families. As...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: I have written to the Minister, Deputy Heydon, regarding the closure of the ISPCA's animal centre in Donegal, a devastating decision that has detrimental animal welfare effects in the north-west region. Just over a week ago in Donegal, we saw 14 dogs rescued from horrific conditions but these dogs have nowhere to go. They will travel a considerable distance to reach the nearest facility,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. It is particularly shocking to hear that bluefin tuna in our waters is being fished by other nations but because we have no proper quota the French and British vessels continue to fish for sea bass on our very doorstep but we have not been able to fish for them since the 1990s. Looking at that, and coming from a rural environment surrounded by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: I will get back to Mr. Desmond on that. The first question has been answered. We will move on. Could the witnesses give me the background on why the north west herring advisory committee does not have any inshore representatives? Since when has this been the case? Why has the brown crab working group stopped meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: I will move on. I am aware of the time. Does Mr. Desmond believe the Cornwall model is a better-managed fishery, and does he believe we could mirror it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: I am beyond words at this stage. That is all from me. I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: No.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (29 Jul 2025)

Charles Ward: 434. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the nature of refurbishment works that were carried out at Letterkenny bus station in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41852/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (29 Jul 2025)

Charles Ward: 1490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests his Department has received from Donegal County Council seeking funding to purchase additional fire appliances and-or emergency specialist equipment for Donegal fire services in each of the years 2023 to 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of funding requests that were approved, in tabular form; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 2025)

Charles Ward: 2348. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the CDNTs within CHO1 that currently have vacant psychologist posts; the estimated timeframe for filling each of those vacancies, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41853/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 2025)

Charles Ward: 2349. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE dietitians, by grade based at Donegal east children's disability network team in and to-date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41854/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: It is a disgrace that we now face into October and legislation regarding retrospective payments for homeowners under the defective concrete scheme still has not been published despite the Taoiseach's housing Minister in June saying it would be. I expect the funds will be made available in the Government's budget next week, and if the Government fails to properly address this crisis yet again...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: They just need a date.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he intends to develop or reinstate railway services in Donegal; whether any progress has been made in the north west since the publication of the all-island strategic rail review last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52139/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: It is shocking that in this day and age that there is still no significant investment in regional rail in the north west. People in Inishowen who travel to Letterkenny or Donegal town must travel by bus. I know an 82-year-old man who travels on a bus to Donegal town to see a relative. He is on the bus for the guts of two hours. Many of my constituents do this and are travelling long...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Charles Ward: Donegal is the only county in the whole of Ireland in which the rail network was removed. We are so far behind that it will take billions of euro to get us up to date. When the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, was Minister for housing, he turned his back to us. I ask him, as Minister for Transport, not to turn his back on Donegal again.