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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Youth Work and Integrated Care and Education: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: What is that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Youth Work and Integrated Care and Education: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: Mr. Perth is grand.

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I thank everyone. I am sitting here enjoying the debate. I really do not want to take part in it because it is so good. I met several of the witnesses before in different walks of life and other professions. Dual diagnosis is something I have always been passionate about. As someone who has worked in addiction and community services, as was said and articulated much better by the...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: The three locations mentioned with regard to the pilot programmes that are coming out, are CHOs 3 and 4 and CHO 9, with regard to adolescents and young persons. Are those programmes for the 10%?

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: Absolutely. Ms McGillivary and Mr. Williams might be able to answer my next question. On that 90%, the service users who are more likely to be using the Chrysalis Community Drug Project and Sankalpa services, what can we, as legislators, decision-makers and people whose voices are sometimes, although not all the time, heard in here, do to help these services? How do we get their message...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: Yes.

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: No.

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I agree with Mr. Williams on that. I will table the questions that he has asked as parliamentary questions and I will get them answered and send them to the witnesses. The witnesses have made some very good points. Mr. Williams's opening statement mentioned that recovery is different for everybody. It is not a straight line. People are up and down and can be anywhere on the road to...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: Yes.

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: It is an attraction.

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I thank the Chair. I thought the Chair would bring Deputy Ó Murchú in before me. I like skipping Deputy Ó Murchú, of all people. This meeting has been fascinating. It has been so valuable for me to listen to this. I was talking to the panel privately and I learn by listening. That is why at this meeting I usually stay for the whole lot of it. I usually try and...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: That is because those other services had to be developed.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 560. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role his Department is playing in reintroducing the Occupied Territories Bill 2018; if this will be reintroduced given the escalation of violence against Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13898/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 561. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps his Department is taking in response to the attempts by the Israeli Government to expand into the Occupied Territories in Palestine; the sanctions that can be placed on the State of Israeli if this continues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13899/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's plans to provide a secondary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to establish a secondary school in Newcastle, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action her Department is taking to ensure the paused building project at a school (details supplied) is delivered at the earliest opportunity given the many delays already faced; and the pressing need for increased capacity to cater for secondary school students in the Newcastle and Rathcoole areas; and if she will make a statement on the...