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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Mark Ward: I move amendment No. 44: In page 30, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(b) a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church,". These amendments seek to ensure the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church are included as information sources, given the central role they played in the mother and baby homes. Amendment No. 48 further seeks to include any possible...

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Mark Ward: ...the opportunity to contribute on the women's health action plan. I also welcome the plan but it does not go far enough. I will focus my contribution on two areas; perinatal mental health services and eating disorders. Depression during pregnancy is prevalent and a specialist perinatal mental health service is needed. There is currently no mother and baby unit, North or South, on the...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (2 Mar 2022)

Mark Ward: ..., I was thinking of some of the interactions I have had with him on other Bills in the past when my knuckles turned white with anger - not directed at the Minister but for the sake of the women and children who suffered in these mother and baby homes. It is refreshing to see some movement on this Bill. It is welcome. The Minister and Deputy Funchion acknowledged the work that was...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Mark Ward: The history of access to information for adopted people in Ireland has been fraught over decades with inaction and indecision. This has ultimately resulted in no clear legislative framework for adopted people seeking information about their past and accessing their birth and early life information files. I listened to the Minister's opening remarks last night and it was like a box set of...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Mark Ward: I am a member of the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and we heard the heartbreaking testimonies of those affected by the mother and baby homes there. The last time I spoke on this I read testimonies that survivors made to the commission of investigation and I will read testimonies again tonight because it is important to hear these women's' voices....

Farrelly Commission of Investigation Substantive Interim Reports: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Mark Ward: This State has a dark history of neglect and abuse of some of the most vulnerable in society. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with my colleague, Deputy Funchion, and in my short time as a member, I have heard heartbreaking testimony from those affected by mother and baby homes and the real-life stories of those who have been...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2021)

Mark Ward: I am in Leinster House. I thank the Minister and his staff for taking the time to meet us today and for the engagement. It is welcome. As previously mentioned, this is a tough, emotional and sensitive process for everyone involved, mothers and adopted persons. The Minister and previous speakers referred to counselling supports for those who want them. This is an important issue. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Mark Ward: ...for notifying the Garda or the coroner of potential criminal activity in the past where a loved one died. Is it the agency or the Department? Who picks up the phone to the coroner or the Garda and says there is a potential that criminal activity happened in mother and baby homes in the past? Who makes that phone call?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Mark Ward: I am in Leinster House. I thank the witnesses for their very poignant and personal life stories. It is not easy to share and I really appreciate that. I have listened to different witnesses as they have come in and it has given me a real insight into a really dark period in our State's history. The intergenerational effect it has had on people who are survivors and victims of mother and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Mark Ward: I thank the Chair and the witnesses. We have the opportunity to make right the wrongs of the horrors of the mother and baby homes. A key paragraph in Mr. Murphy's opening submission states: "A key task for this committee will be to deliver effective legislation that will, as far as practicable, protect and preserve mass graves, such as Tuam, and provide for the identification of, and where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Mark Ward: ...to documents. We saw how public confidence was absolutely rocked when this came up in the recent past. As mentioned in the statement, the proposed Bill provides for the sealing of documents and records for a period of 30 years. Access to this information is of the utmost importance, as has been said, and has taken on particular significance in the context of justice for the survivors of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Mark Ward: I am on the Leinster House campus. I will ask my questions at the start and I will leave time at the end for the witnesses to respond. I thank the witnesses for attending today's meeting and for making a presentation to the committee. I had a number of conversations with people who are directly affected by the standard operating procedure and their children's needs not being met. I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Engagement with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (16 Feb 2021)

Mark Ward: ...in the electronic repository on transfer to the Department. When was the decision made to summarise the personal testimonies provided orally rather than record them verbatim? The testimonies and oral transcripts were not done verbatim - the Minister used that word. When was that decision made? Why was the decision made at that stage? I do not understand why these important testimonies...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (21 Jan 2021)

Mark Ward: 262. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a comprehensive list of mother and baby homes was compiled; if so, the criteria for inclusion on same; and the location in which the list can be accessed. [3214/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals and Departmental Priorities: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (3 Nov 2020)

Mark Ward: I thank the Minister. I will allow him time to revert to me at the end of my couple of minutes. I thank him for outlining his priorities and I look forward to discussing them over time, but, probably like everybody else here, I want to discuss the issue of the mother and baby homes that arose in the past couple of weeks. I acknowledge all the people who contacted me and, I am sure, other...