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- Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: Has it got funding for that because I was looking at the €7,500 of funding? It has got no core funding. How is it managing to do that without the funding?
- Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: That is as it should be. I have one more question, Chair, relating to something that came up when Deputy Hourigan was speaking and it is around data collected by the Health Research Board forms. That has not been changed in years. Has that been updated recently? Have there been any changes? One of the reasons I am asking and why I put in a parliamentary question is that a number of people...
- Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: People change and drug use changes. If the form has stayed the same, it is not keeping up with reality.
- Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: It is constantly changing, as does its power, as we get new information.
- Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: Absolutely, but their data can be collected anonymously without indicating who that person is. I thank the witnesses. I really enjoyed that. I apologise that I will have to leave now to go to another meeting.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (14 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 31: In page 62, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(2) Such review will examine the operation, interpretation and accessibility of the Act and make recommendations for reform accordingly. Such review shall include consultation with, and the active involvement of, persons with disabilities through their representative organisations. Such review...
- Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: The only time you hear of these great successes is when people share their own lived experience of wherever they are coming from.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jun 2022)
Mark Ward: At the committee on children it was revealed that 20 children under the care of Tusla accessed south Kerry's child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, during the period covered by the Maskey report. Of these, six children suffered harm or significant harm, that is, 30% of all children under the care of the State who accessed CAMHS in south Kerry were placed at some form of harm....
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: I do not think anybody here has said they do not care. Mr. Reid is very defensive.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: Senator Clonan deserves a direct response from the HSE now. I do not want to comment in the middle of this exchange as I do not want to muddy the waters because lived experience is really valuable. If it is okay with the Co-Chair, I will comment later.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: Thank you, Chairman, for allowing Senator Clonan to get his answer straightaway.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: Parents trying to access life-changing interventions such as speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychology is one of the biggest issues in my area and for people who come to my office. I said this previously to Mr. Reid. I met with Clondalkin Autism Parents Support Network last week and the one word I can use to describe those parents when I left the room is "exhausted"....
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: It is not just since 11 May. What was happening before 11 May?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: Was it in just one instance that the Minister of State was blocked from getting information from the HSE or were there numerous instances? The reports I read indicated that the Minister of State was blocked from accessing the information she required in order to do her duties numerous times.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: That is not the question I asked. The Minister of State can look forward all she wants. In order to learn how best to go forward, however, we need to look back and see where the mistakes were made and where the blocks were located.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: There were questions that were not answered around the CDNT concerning the number of people who have left since January and exit interviews.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: As a simple way to resolve things, it should have been done a long time ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: I do not think anybody here has said they do not care. Mr. Reid is very defensive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: Senator Clonan deserves a direct response from the HSE now. I do not want to comment in the middle of this exchange as I do not want to muddy the waters because lived experience is really valuable. If it is okay with the Co-Chair, I will comment later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Mark Ward: Thank you, Chairman, for allowing Senator Clonan to get his answer straightaway.