Results 181-200 of 3,842 for speaker:Mark Ward

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Mark Ward: It is not often the Government gets things right when it comes to housing, but in the case of the tenant in situ scheme it was working. What does the Government do when something is working in housing? It moves the goalposts. South Dublin County Council has seen a significant cut on the 2024 expenditure on the tenant in situ scheme. The Government has imposed significant new...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (21 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if they can please clarify if there are any new changes to the process of renewing an individual’s driver’s license, especially in regard to individuals who are living with multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26159/25]

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...

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

Mark Ward: We are being denied.

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Community Safety Partnerships (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: As the Minister said, the community safety partnerships were to be restructured to replace the JPCs. They were much promised by the Minister's predecessor, Deputy McEntee, and much lauded. It is very worrying to hear the Minister still has not signed off on these community safety partnerships. There is a vacuum. The JPC is vital in holding the Garda to account. Can the Minister enact...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. The question related to Meath, so I wanted to focus on youth diversion in the Ashbourne area. The area has seen a significant increase in population and I welcome the recent funds that were allocated from the community safety fund for Ashbourne. This is money that was seized by CAB and put back into communities to help them build resilience to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. I want to touch on the community safety fund again. This is money from organised crime that was seized by CAB and is meant to be invested in the communities most impacted by crime. These communities are in need of resources to strengthen their resilience against criminal activity. It is no coincidence that the majority of money seized by CAB...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (15 May 2025)

Mark Ward: On behalf of my colleague Deputy Darren O'Rourke, I wish to ask about youth diversion programmes which offer huge benefits. They are aimed at preventing young people from becoming involved in the criminal justice system and at promoting positive development. These programmes can lead to reduced recidivism and can help young people to make a positive contribution to society. What plans does...

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]

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Mark Ward: I want to talk about the scandalous waiting times at the driving test centre in Tallaght. The latest figures I have show that over 20,000 people in Tallaght are waiting for driving tests. This is a rise of 1,500 in the past six months. The only direction waiting lists go in this country is up. The statutory minimum time to sit the test is ten weeks. The waiting time in Tallaght is now a...

Withdrawal of Bills: Motion (13 May 2025)

Mark Ward: I move: That leave be granted to withdraw the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024, and, notwithstanding the Order of the Dáil of 1st May, 2025, that Deputy Joanna Byrne be designated the member in charge of the Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024.