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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]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution (15 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the most recent noise safety review was carried out in the surrounding areas of Weston Airport, Dublin; if safety sound levels are safe for local residents; if the level of airport traffic is monitored; if there is a daily limit to level of activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39024/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed new build for schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed extension for schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39566/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 693. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if anti-drone technology is being considered for prisons; if this would be more cost effective than netting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the number of reports to the Gardaí of incidences of spiking another person with a drug or substance without the persons knowledge, for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39481/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: 756. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda vetting process will be updated to make it easier for individuals who have been vetted recently to be vetted in a more timely manner for a second or third role; if he has any plans to legislate on the matter;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39589/25]

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...