Results 1-20 of 124 for drugs speaker:Mark Ward

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

Mark Ward: ...the side effects it could have, including suicidal ideation. Jake was diagnosed with Asperger’s. The evidence indicates Prozac has no benefit for children with Asperger’s. Despite the risk of harm, Jake was still prescribed this drug. The coroner returned an open verdict. The family welcomed the open verdict as the ruling “death by suicide” would not...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: ...further into the suburbs of Dublin and beyond, into the outlying counties, where Garda visibility is not as high as it is in the city centre. I can give testament to that. In my own area of Dublin Mid-West there has been an increase in open drug dealing and antisocial behaviour. I have raised this in the Dáil in the past. Often when constituents call the Garda there is only one...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: ...to the inner city to have a presence, leaving our areas with a dearth. I have mentioned several times that if I am aware of redeployment from my area when there is a serious incident elsewhere, the drug dealers, including those dealing openly, will be aware of it too and behave accordingly. That happens.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 143. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet members of the group who made a presentation on Duchenne muscular dystrophy on 11 June 2025 in Leinster House as they try to access a new drug called givinostat; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32910/25]

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: Okay. Another issue I have, especially in my constituency and right across Dublin, is the issue of drug dealing. The local drug and alcohol task force in my own area, which I was a director on the past, does its best to assist people with addiction. The Garda members do their best to prevent and reduce the amount of drugs that end up on and are sold on our street. However, I return to an...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: Okay. It is was brought to my attention because, as I mentioned at the start, drugs have absolutely ripped apart working class communities, particularly parts of my own community. We have seen families who have been caught up in drug use for generation after generation at this stage. Therefore, when the public see or hear about drugs going missing from a Garda station, it raises concerns...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: 907. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider running a pilot orphan drug early-access programme in order that children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy can access givinostat; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32665/25]

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Mark Ward: ...this. If I know this, you had better believe the criminals working in my area know this, too. Any time there is a high-profile incident elsewhere in Dublin, people will see a high prevalence of antisocial behaviour, open drug dealing and the like going on in my area. When there is a serious incident - and there will be serious incidents; that is just the nature of the witnesses' line of...

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

Mark Ward: ...under siege by gangs of young people. This is often written off as antisocial behaviour. Nothing annoys a community more when it is said, "It is only antisocial behaviour." Let me be clear. Drug dealing is not antisocial behaviour; it is a criminal activity. Intimidation is not antisocial behaviour but a criminal activity. Vandalism of public and private property is not antisocial...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (4 Mar 2025)

Mark Ward: ...whole of Clondalkin and Ballyfermot, which is a huge area. This is simply not good enough. There are other parts of my constituency where residents are afraid. Gangs are terrorising their areas. Open drug dealing, nightly fires, intimidation, assaults and vandalism are regular occurrences. This is not antisocial behaviour, which is how it is being put out in the media; it is criminal...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: Are conversations taking place with members of the force in relation to potential changes in drug policy? For example, if we move from decriminalising the person but not the drug, how would that affect gardaí on a daily basis? What are their thoughts on that?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (15 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 602. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the €2.3 million funding for local and regional drug taskforces in September; if it has been allocated and drawn down; and if so, by whom. [41118/24]

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: I do not know if I misheard when Ms Brennan was speaking about the drug treatment court. It has been a pilot project since 2001.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: ...question as well because I was wondering about the criteria. I worked in addiction services. I used to work in ones out in Clondalkin and at that time, people there were not able to go to the drug treatment courts because of the criteria. Ms Brennan said 699 individuals have gone through the drug treatment courts since 2001. To me that is 30 individuals per year on average. Has that...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: Okay. The drug treatment court has a requirement for being drug-free. Does that include prescription methadone or anything like that?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: It is just street drugs.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: On that as well, we have a big problem in Dublin with drug debt intimidation. We have talked about it at the committee before. The DRIVE project has been started here. Is there anything similar in Limerick? What is the experience there with drug debt intimidation?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: Going back to the drug treatment court, does drug debt intimidation come up when people are accessing that court? Has that been experienced at all?