Mark Ward has been the Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Mid-West since 2019, and is the party's spokesperson for Mental Health. He is a qualified Behavioural Therapist, and was previously a South Dublin County councillor between 2016 and 2019, and was Mayor of South Dublin in 2018.

I want to continue the work that I have done over the last 8 years as an elected representative, and I want to continue giving my community a voice in the Dáil.

Every single day since I have been elected, someone has contacted my office with an issue in housing. Under the current Government we have seen the housing crisis turn into a housing emergency. They have never tried to address this in any meaningful way and this has led to some really heart-breaking stories. So many other aspects of life have been negatively impacted by this housing emergency.

The first time I speak in the Dáil I want it to be congratulating Mary Lou McDonald on becoming the next Taoiseach.