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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the tenant in situ scheme; to provide clarity to local authorities who have approved properties using the scheme but have not been allocated funding for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Services (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reduce recidivism among young offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24601/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the rationale for closing the progression unit in Mountjoy Prison; the action taken to accommodate the rehabilitation of prisoners who were resident in Mountjoy Prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24600/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 306. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the situation where an individual is in the process of being registered with CORU as a social care worker, whether, if they were to take up part time employment in a different field of work, it would affect their registration with CORU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24899/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 154. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of primary health care centres in the Dublin mid-west area; to provide a timeline of their roll out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24064/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in primary health care centres, by post, throughout Dublin Mid-West; her plan to fully staff teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24063/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Civil Service (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 532. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the procedures in place to prevent barriers to reasonable accommodation for autistic individuals in the civil service from working from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23771/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to allow people who are contracted by Bus Éireann to drive buses for children with additional needs to continue to do so after they reach 70 years of age; if she will comment on the current policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23460/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the funding will be released to open a second autism class in school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23693/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if children (details supplied) are included in the hot meals programme; if the dietary conditions of the programme has been reviewed recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24197/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 997. To ask the Minister for Health the services and treatment options that are available for people with a disease (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 1225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the financial supports available to a person (details supplied); the options open to them to assist them in their studies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23268/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Mark Ward: We are being denied.

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Mark Ward: At this moment more than 15,000 children are waiting for an assessment of need. An assessment of need is an assessment carried out by the HSE of children with disabilities. The assessment identifies the child's needs and what services are needed to meet them. This sounds like a simple procedure, but Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have made a right hames of it. They have scandalously left...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of the 70 new permanent driving tester positions announced in September 2024 that have been filled; the number of vacancies that remain; the test centres where new positions have been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25760/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving testers in each Dublin test centre; if there are plans to increase these numbers in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25761/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (20 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 345. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding vehicle registration tax and its relationship with EU trade law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25841/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Burial Grounds (20 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will instruct the Office of Public Works to carry out a feasibility study to assess whether the remains of the Invincibles Joe Brady, Dan Curley, Mick Fagan, Tom Caffrey and Tim Kelly, can be reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery from their unmarked graves in Kilmainham Gaol, where they were interred in 1883; if his office will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 745. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the case can be examined of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting for an assessment of needs since he was referred in March 2023, whose parents made a complaint which was upheld giving them a date for assessment, which was then not carried out, and who have been directed to raise this in the...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Mark Ward: We are discussing funding for carers and I want to talk about one funding source, namely, the domiciliary care allowance. The domiciliary care allowance is payable in respect of a child under the age of 16 who has severe disability requiring continual care and attention. Over the past number of years I have noticed a pattern of people contacting me and coming to my office with the same...