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Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: I welcome the Minister's movement on some issues. I also welcome his candour. It is clear that the Minister is listening. With regard to anonymisation and having listened to Deputy Kelly, regardless of whether that it is to be done here or in the Seanad, we have to take another step and ensure that people can sign up to what is in the Bill. That is very important. The whole debate is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 517. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that the Government is taking for immunocompromised persons who continue to cocoon to avoid Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60165/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: I apologise for being late; I was at a Zoom meeting. I thank the Minister of State for his patience. Life is hard enough for children with disabilities. Families with children who have disabilities are already creaking under the pressure. As the Minister of State will know, waiting lists for children are growing at an unprecedented rate. More than 18,000 children are now on the waiting...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: I acknowledge the commitment of the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, to children with disabilities. There is no questioning that because she put in a great amount of work. She is very committed and is trying and working very hard to unpick or disentangle the mess that applies to her brief. This is not about lack of will from the Minister of State. The Government very much needs to...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: I thank Deputy Bacik for introducing this very good Bill. It is also welcome that the Minister is welcoming it and will work with it on Committee Stage. Dublin Bay is hugely important to everyone in this country, not just people living close to the coast. It is an environmental jewel that needs to be protected. During Covid, many people discovered swimming and how important and healthy...

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: Housing and health have become intertwined into one big mess and that has happened on Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s watch. Government policies in health and housing over the past decade have brought us to a crisis. We are now facing a brain drain from the health service like we have never seen before. A perpetual crisis in the health service under this Government is forcing...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of the development of the National Children’s Science Centre at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 (details supplied). [61890/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether it is appropriate that the OPW will spend State resources to develop a new science centre at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 which will then be handed over to the National Children’s Science Centre (details supplied). [61891/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW is engaging with commercial entities that may have an interest in the National Children’s Science Centre project (details supplied). [61892/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the credentials that the OPW believe that the National Children’s Science Centre has to run a science museum (details supplied). [61893/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projections of the OPW to demonstrate that the National Children’s Science Centre will be financially viable (details supplied). [61894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that the OPW was in arbitration with the National Children’s Science Centre (details supplied). [61896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that have been taken to bring the Old Baggot Street Hospital into use as accommodation for refugees given there is an extreme need for accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers; and the measures that he has taken since the feasibility report in relation to this site which was completed in March 2022. [61862/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are available to a person (details supplied). [61860/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Abuse (13 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish the recent independent review into historical abuse within an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61698/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (14 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the issue of Indonesia’s new penal code with the Indonesian Government and the major problems relating to the criminalisation of political thought and activism, the criminalisation of sex outside of marriage and further restrict access to abortion. [62442/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (14 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to proposals to establish a legal services commission; and the status of these proposals. [62490/22]

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: Clearly, the Minister has worked particularly hard on this and it is important to acknowledge that. It is great there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel for homeowners for whom this has been an utter nightmare. The devil is in the detail and we will see that detail in time. When it comes to home defects, it is hard to know where to start. Throughout the country, there is...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: I, too, extend my Christmas wishes to the Minister, the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Deputy James Browne, and all the Houses of the Oireachtas staff, who have kept the wheels turning over the past year and do a fantastic job. The increase in income thresholds is very welcome. I believe the levels should be greater than what is proposed. Inflation, which will continue,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (15 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: As the Minister of State will be aware, Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 has been the backbone of the provision of much-needed social housing stock across the State for many years. Without the requirement that each private developer provides a percentage of social housing for the local authority, it is hard to imagine how much worse off the housing crisis would be. These...