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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (16 Apr 2024)

Mark Ward: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update of the transfer of a plot of land in a school (details supplied) from her Department and the Dublin Education and Training Board to the HSE that is required to progress the delivery of a primary care centre in north Clondalkin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16366/24]

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Mark Ward: ...bombardment of Gaza. There have been previous peace deals but Israel has continued to impose its apartheid regime on the Palestinian people. It continued its deliberate seizing of Palestinian lands and displacing Palestinians from their homes. It continued to imprison men, women and children without trial. Israel is an occupying force and Israel is playing the victim. The reason...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (22 Nov 2023)

Mark Ward: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the disposal of land to provide a primary healthcare centre in Collinstown, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51516/23]

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Mark Ward: ...engage with SDCC and consider whether additional funding can be provided so that all areas in Dublin Mid-West can avail of public sports facilities. In 2005, SDCC, which I am referring to frequently, provided land and funding for an all-weather pitch and clubhouse for the South Dublin Football League, SDFL. In the 2005 lease, the permitted use was stated to be for a clubhouse and an...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Mark Ward: ...of Palestine live under an apartheid regime designed and cruelly enforced by Israel. It is an apartheid regime which sees Palestinians killed, imprisoned and tortured and that sees Palestinian lands annexed and illegally settled and Palestinian homes left in ruins. This week we saw an elected Israeli official calling for ethnic cleansing in front of a stolen Palestinian home. This is...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Mark Ward: I commend my colleague, Deputy Brady, for his hard work on this Bill and his dedication to the Palestinian cause over the years. The intention of the Bill is to end Ireland's involvement in Israel's illegal enterprise. If the Bill is passed, Ireland could become a catalyst for other European countries to follow. The National Treasury Management Agency was established in late 1990 to...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Mark Ward: Historically, the EU has been a catalyst for much good in Ireland in terms of equality, workers’ rights, environmental standards and the rights of women. While there is much good in the EU, there is criticism that the EU has strayed from the original vision of a community of nations working in partnership and solidarity for the greater well-being of all citizens. With the EU moving...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (19 Apr 2023)

Mark Ward: 119. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the disposal of land to provide a primary healthcare centre in Collinstown, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18359/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Mark Ward: I too want to talk about the situation in Palestine and the ongoing immoral and illegal landgrab by Israeli settlers. Since 1967, Israel has established approximately 140 settlements on Palestinian land, accommodating more than 500,000 settlers, and groups of settlers have also built scores of other illegal outposts on Palestinian lands. I had the privilege to visit Palestine last year....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (18 Jan 2023)

Mark Ward: 772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the disposal of land by her Department to the Department of Health to provide a primary healthcare centre in Collinstown, Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1599/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (18 Jan 2023)

Mark Ward: 1418. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the disposal of land by the Department of Education to his Department to provide a primary health care centre in Collinstown, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1169/23]

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: ...obvious blatant apartheid and human rights abuses in Palestine? Israel's apartheid against Palestinians is a cruel system of domination and crimes against humanity. Massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians are all components of a system that amounts...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (25 Oct 2022)

Mark Ward: 668. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the disposal of land by the Department of Education to his Department to provide a primary health care centre in Collinstown, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53318/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Mark Ward: ...229 a month for the affordable housing scheme. That is a 32% reduction on general prices in the area. How much would the affordable rental scheme and the affordable housing scheme have cost had this public land not been sold to a private developer in the first place?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2022)

Mark Ward: I was on the council when these decisions were made. We did not procrastinate. We sent the matter back to the Minister's predecessor, Eoghan Murphy, to get 100% public homes on public land, with affordable purchase, rental and social units. There is no way that the cost would have been €285,000 had it been done at the time. We were given assurances, as far as the council could do...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Mark Ward: ..., food and energy. What is the solution to reduce sky-high rents? One solution is to increase the supply of social, affordable purchase and affordable rental homes - public homes on public land. I listened to the dog whistles from Government Deputies last night, with more guff coming out of the Minister's mouth today about Sinn Féin and others objecting to developments. We are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (31 May 2022)

Mark Ward: 633. To ask the Minister for Health if the Elm Mount unit at St. Vincent’s University Hospital campus is fully-owned by the State including the land; if same is a leasehold; if the State can apply for a freehold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27244/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 May 2022)

Mark Ward: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has contacted South Dublin County Council to acquire land beside a school (details supplied) in order to aid the expansion of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25021/22]

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Mark Ward: ...on forced adoptions. As women and children were treated as commodities by the church and the State in baby factories, if this Government cannot see the upset that building a maternity hospital on land that is owned by a religious order has caused, then it is more out of touch than I thought. During Leaders' Questions today the Taoiseach reaffirmed the Government's position that...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Mark Ward: ...Integration and Youth. Everything seems to fall under the remit of that committee. I have spoken in the past about the mental health challenges that displaced Ukrainian people will face when they land on our shores. Today, however, I will focus on the housing situation we are in. The Government has failed spectacularly to get to grips with the housing crisis, and now we have a...