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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...

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...

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

Mark Ward: -----but rests solely and squarely on the shoulders of Government for not providing public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West. I am calling for action now so that no more children fall through the cracks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: What the hell?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (16 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the driver test waiting times, by test centre; the breakdown of new applications, by test centre, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40109/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (16 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of resit applications for the driver tests in the months of May, June and July, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (16 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 222. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the support that is in place for parents who, due to lengthy waiting times, paid for a private assessment of needs for their child only to find out much later that there are questions around the bona fides of the private psychologist qualifications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40153/25]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: I am going to read out some statistics from last year. There were over 45,000 reports of domestic abuse to Women's Aid, over 22,000 contacts to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, over 49,000 domestic abuse incidents recorded by gardaí and over 65,000 domestic abuse calls recorded by gardaí. Behind every single one of these statistics is a person and they are mainly women, like the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: The parents are dead.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (10 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 304. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the options available to parents whose children do not have a crèche place; the efforts being made to increase availability of places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38456/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 331. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the process for family members to obtain medical records of a private nursing home resident following their death; if private nursing homes can be compelled to release these records if they refuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38369/25]

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: We have had this conversation many times about admitting children into adult psychiatric facilities. The Government had four years to get this right and it has failed. It is draconian. The practice is wrong. Every human rights organisation has said it is absolutely wrong. The Government also had four years to get the regulation of CAMHS in place. It is not in this Bill. It is literally...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Act of 1962, to provide for a verdict of Iatrogenic Suicide and related matters. Today Sinn Féin is introducing “Jake’s amendment” to amend the Coroners Act. This Bill will introduce the term “iatrogenic suicide” into the Act, allowing the coroner to return it as a...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: I reiterate what my colleague Deputy Carthy has said about the exclusion from the Bill of militaries that are engaged in a genocide. This is wrong, and our amendments go towards correcting this. We can see what the IDF is doing daily. It is committing war crime after war crime. There is the mass displacement and the ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza, using mass starvation as a...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: The definition of "provocation" is too broad, as is the definition of "glorification". They are wide open to interpretation and abuse. As has already been stated by Deputy Carthy about what he termed the Kneecap clause, the broad definition of "provocation" could be used to target freedom of expression, an issue that I raised with the Minister in the Dáil. We have also seen how...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting time between passing the driver theory test and being able to apply for the driving test; if this time is required for those who need to drive for work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37744/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (8 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people in prison who were on waiting lists to access psychology services, as of June 2025, by days waiting list, by prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37306/25]