Results 61-80 of 3,729 for speaker:Mark Ward

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (28 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in relation to funding awarded to an organisation (details supplied) through the community safety fund, to outline why they were not successful for the second round of funding for a similar research project; if they can appeal this decision; to outline the appeal process; to outlined if other funding streams are available...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (28 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of minors who engaged with Young Persons Probation services in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 407. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the budget allocated to Mental Health in 2025; the amount for adult services and the amount for child and adolescent services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28102/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Consultations (27 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his Departments plans to purchase a complex (details supplied) in Saggart, County Dublin for IPAS accommodation; the number of residents currently accommodated by IPAS at this complex; the number that may be accommodated when the complex is purchased; and if he plans to engage with the local community about future plans for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 May 2025)

Mark Ward: 535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the use of a residential property (details supplied) by Tusla to accommodate minors; and to detail the engagement with residents that took place prior to this facility opening. [26971/25]

Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (22 May 2025)

Mark Ward: I take the opportunity to wish the best to both Ministers in their roles. There is not a TD on any side the House who does not wish them success because education is hugely important to our children. I want to raise a few local issues. Rathcoole Educate Together National School is currently in a temporary location in Citywest while it waits for a permanent building. It was told this would...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Mark Ward: Gaza needs aid. Gaza needs a ceasefire. Israel needs sanctions. That may be a very simplistic message but that is what is needed right now. Israel has displaced the people of Gaza. Israel has murdered the people of Gaza. Israel has starved the people of Gaza. The people of Gaza are being ethnically cleansed right before our very eyes. If you do not believe me, believe the words of...

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...