Results 101-120 of 3,952 for speaker:Mark Ward

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Ward: 941. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are a set of rules for schools to follow for the free books scheme; if tablets and books are to be bought for each student or if this is down to the individual school to decide; if the Department would consider a consistent approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46457/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Ward: 1202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if priority will be given to critical skills workers such as teachers, nurses and Gardaí in upcoming affordable housing schemes: the way in which such a priority would work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45845/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Sep 2025)

Mark Ward: 1644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of minibuses available per Garda station for community policing in the Dublin metropolitan region, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46136/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 678. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Apple tax windfall; the amount that has been collected by the State to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Inquiries (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 810. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the purpose of the new netting on parts of the roof of the National Gallery; the cost of the netting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 811. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Apple tax windfall; what has the money been used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 900. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on a new EU Delegated Act (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1222) that classifies nitrous oxide as harmful to reproductive health; if this will trigger a critical clause under the REACH Regulation (Entry 30, Annex XVII), that effectively prohibits the sale of nitrous oxide to the general public; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 1269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if exceptions can be made for the school transport scheme in the case of a school (details supplied); if she will acknowledge that their new temporary location was not originally recognised by Bus Éireann and prohibited them from applying before the closing date; if she will acknowledge that since the application portal reopened...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 1282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if exceptions can be made for the school transport scheme in a case (details supplied) for parents who applied with a medical card given that their new temporary location was only updated on the Bus Éireann system following the closing date for applications; if it can be acknowledged that all applications as a result would be late...

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

Mark Ward: 2394. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the use of a cadaver dog has been considered to investigate parts of the Tuam site that are not being excavated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42316/25]

Criminal Justice (Promotion of Restorative Justice) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: He would not have minded.

Criminal Justice (Promotion of Restorative Justice) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: As the Minister of State said, this is the last Bill to be taken prior to the recess so I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the Oireachtas staff for all their work over the year, and let them know I will not be taking my full ten minutes and they might get out a little bit earlier. I am happy to speak on this important Bill. I thank my colleagues Deputies Quinlivan and Daly for...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: I join the Minister in commending the work of CAB over the years in seizing assets from organised crime gangs. I also join in his comments concerning An Garda Síochána taking drugs off our streets, which is very much needed. Sinn Féin supports the aims of this Bill, but as the Minister mentioned, there will be a Committee Stage and we may seek to table amendments to further...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Burial Grounds (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 363 of 20 May and 79 of 1 July 2025, if he will carry out a feasibility study to assess whether the remains of the Invincibles (details supplied) can be reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery from their unmarked graves in Kilmainham Gaol, where they were interred in 1883; if his office will engage with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for schools to qualify for DEIS status; the progress of a DEIS+ model; when this will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40132/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of the number of special needs assistants will be carried out for a school (details supplied); to outline the recommended student-SNA ratio; the average SNA allocation per 100 students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40133/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times across the State for the walkaround test to complete a driver certificate of professional competence for bus drivers, in tabular form; the steps being taken to reduce this waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an individual can contact the land registry office directly to request the deeds of their house; to outline this process; if this can be done if the land transfer application is still being processed; to outline if this process can be expedited in the event that they are selling their house; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to introduce legislation to reform the coroner service; the proposed changes; if verdicts available to the coroner will be updated; if the term iatrogenic suicide will be included as a verdict as outlined in the Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40214/25]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: The Bill before us is a Bill of optics to create an illusion that the Government is dealing with a health crisis that it created. It is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic or an old-fashioned three-card trick that moves people from list to list without getting them the necessary treatment at the end of it. I will give the Minister some examples. In 2015, there was an agreement...