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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 45: In page 30, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(b) a religious order of the Church of Ireland,".

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 46: In page 30, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(b) a diocese or parish of the Roman Catholic Church,".

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 47: In page 30, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(b) a diocese or parish of the Church of Ireland,".

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 48: In page 30, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(b) any person or organisation involved in the administration or management of concerned institutions, or performed any work paid or unpaid on behalf of concerned institutions,”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 49: In page 31, line 25, after "Agency" to insert "and Adoption Authority of Ireland". The Adoption Authority of Ireland also holds significant records and should be included in the remit of this Bill, along with Tusla.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 50: In page 34, line 11, to delete "person and shall require the person" and substitute "persons, across a range of appropriate disciplines and shall require such persons to". There should be more emphasis in the Bill on an integrated identification approach involving a multidisciplinary response. For example, there is no mention of forensic anthropology in the Bill....

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 51: In page 34, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(b) in accordance with the Coroners Act 1962,".

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 52: In page 35, line 8, after "violent" to insert "accidental, homicide, undetermined or suspicious deaths".

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 61: In page 47, line 25, after “certificates” to insert “, baptismal certificates and records; vaccine records and death notifications,”. The amendment proposes to insert after the word “certificates” the words “baptismal certificates and records; vaccine records and death notifications.” It is important that...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 75: In page 79, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: "(3) Upon publication of the final report, the Director and or other Agency officials shall make themselves available to appear before the relevant Oireachtas Committee.". Given the controversy relating to the publication of the final report, this amendment provides that the director or other...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: While I take on board the Minister's response, I will still press the amendment.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (28 Apr 2022)

Mark Ward: 227. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options that are available to a person (details supplied) who does not meet the requirements for the free travel card; and if they will be considered for same on compassionate grounds. [21517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 Apr 2022)

Mark Ward: 270. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application by a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered on compassionate grounds; and the options that are available to them. [21516/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Apr 2022)

Mark Ward: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in south Kerry CAMHS offered to return to CAMHS on a temporary basis until a full-time consultant psychiatrist was appointed; if so, the response to the offer; the notification the person received; the rationale for the response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21306/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (26 Apr 2022)

Mark Ward: I mentioned six different Departments. I do not want to oversimplify, but €60,000, €10,000 from each Department, would really work. We need to get these people around the table. At the moment Departments are working in silos. The left hand does not seem to know what the right hand is doing sometimes. I was asking the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to arrange...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (26 Apr 2022)

Mark Ward: As much as I enjoy a debate with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, of which we have had many, I am disappointed that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is not present to take this important debate. Clondalkin Equine Club was opened in 2017. I attended the opening alongside Deputy Gino Kenny and it has been a really welcome addition to our community. It was born out of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (26 Apr 2022)

Mark Ward: 918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who is a qualified maths and science teacher and holds a four-year degree from Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street in structural engineering can work as a metalwork and engineering teacher in a secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20517/22]