Results 21-40 of 1,812 for speaker:Chris Andrews

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Parks (6 Mar 2025)

Chris Andrews: I thank the Minister of State. None of the issues I raised was addressed. The Save the Iveagh Gardens campaign is not happy with any proposals to destroy the area.The long boundary wall will be destroyed. I invite the Minister of State to visit the gardens at lunchtime. They ware magnificent. The OPW does a very good job within the boundary walls, but to allow the destruction of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2025)

Chris Andrews: I raise the ongoing crisis facing residents in Glovers Court, a Dublin City Council flat complex off York Street, and O'Carroll Villas. Drug dealers run these flat complexes. Glovers Court is like a 24-hour drug shop, with dealers using Kinder eggs to hide their drugs in the playground at O'Carroll Villas.Gangs of young people are egging those using the local shops and businesses. The pace...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2025)

Chris Andrews: Pearse House flats, which are located just off Pearse Street, are due to be regenerated as part of the flat regeneration scheme. This regeneration is taking place at a snail's pace. The conditions residents have to live in are absolutely unacceptable. In the past week, two residents have had to be moved out of their homes; both of their flats were completely flooded by raw sewage which...

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Chris Andrews: I congratulate the Minister of State on his new portfolio. It is a really interesting role and is one that I know he is very interested in. I wish him the best of luck in it because it is important for everyone that he is successful. The Irish diaspora is a unique feature of our historical and cultural identity and is crucial to our global influence and political future. Irish men and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Chris Andrews: Apartheid Israel has stopped bombing Gaza. It has decided to change its strategy and starve the people of the Gaza Strip. Withholding food and emergency aid is genocide. It is sickening. It is also against international law to continue to do that. Yet, the Irish Government still has not sanctioned Israel. There have been no sanctions. There are no consequences for Israel in the context...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic Pets (27 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: I congratulate the Minister on his new position. It is well deserved. Last year, the Fine Gael Minister in the previous Government spent €400,000 on a campaign to highlight the need for dog owners to be responsible dog owners. A few months later, the Minister was banning XL bullies and targeting specific dogs, rather than targeting behaviour, and letting irresponsible owners off the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic Pets (27 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: I thank the Minister. I have to emphasise the importance of having an appeals process and that it is independent. When the ban was brought in, the Government had to bring an independent expert from England, Ms Debbie Connolly, because there is no expertise here in terms of identifying what an XL Bully is. Debbie Connolly trained some of the dog wardens. Some dog wardens did not go to the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic Pets (27 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: With the ban, however, the dog is being punished.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: St. Patrick's Boys' National School in Ringsend is a DEIS band 1 school that serves pupils in Ringsend, Irishtown and Pearse Street. The Department of Education has just notified it that it is going to lose a teacher, which is a huge blow to the school. It has failed to meet the arbitrary 127 retention pupil rate. The staff work themselves to the bone there. The conditions they are...

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (26 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: I congratulate the Minister on his new position. There are a lot of moving parts to it, literally. I wish him the best of luck in that. I do not believe the Minister mentioned the extension of light rail down to the Irish Glass Bottle site. Obviously, he knows about the Irish Glass Bottle site extensively. I know his predecessor put back the Luas, the light rail, down to the Irish...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: There was another fatal stabbing in Dublin city centre this weekend. Clearly, Dublin is not safe for anybody using the city centre. There is a real sense of menace. It is no surprise to residents living in the inner city, for example, on Pearse Street and Kevin Street, that there was a fatal stabbing. Right across the inner city, it is no surprise because on a daily basis, residents and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: Would it be possible to invite the Minister for housing in specifically to discuss the regeneration of flat complexes around Dublin? As an example, the refurbishment and redevelopment of communities and flat complexes in Dublin Bay South and in the south inner city is desperately needed.The regeneration is moving at a snail's pace. Residents are having to live in accommodation that is...

Seanad: Cathaoirleach a Thoghadh - Election of Cathaoirleach (12 Feb 2025)

Chris Andrews: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach. I know he will be a very fair Chair. Thanks to Mr. Martin Groves and his team in the Seanad Office who facilitated the count. Thanks also to those who voted for me to be a Senator. It is a real honour to be elected to the Upper House. I will be working on various issues with all Senators. I am looking forward to that process and to bringing about...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Chris Andrews: Baggot Street post office is closing, Ballsbridge post office is closing and Rathmines post office is being sold off. This will have a devastating impact on the local communities. It comes on top of the closures, not too long ago, of the post offices in Donnybrook and Kevin Street. All five closures have come in the lifetime of the current Government. The legacy of the Government on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (6 Nov 2024)

Chris Andrews: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions the Government will be taking in relation to trade with the Kingdom of Morocco in light of the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-399/22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45334/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (5 Nov 2024)

Chris Andrews: 477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process to amalgamate two primary schools, a boys' school and a girls' school, into one school. [44954/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (5 Nov 2024)

Chris Andrews: 897. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when full-time therapists will be restored to each special school. [44202/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: The Dublin City task force launched earlier this week. It is hard to believe the Government needed to do a report to tell you what was wrong with Dublin City Council because we have been saying it in this House for years. I have been telling the Minister the issues with the redevelopment of the flat complexes. One of the task force proposals was the fast-tracking of flat regeneration,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: They do not have the funding, though.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: They are all on the northside.