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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Chris Andrews: Permission was granted two years ago.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Chris Andrews: It has gone to design, yes.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Chris Andrews: Last Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee, IOC, took the decision to bar athletes representing countries with responsibility for war and conflict but this seems to apply to only one war - the war in Ukraine. The IOC feels it has the high moral ground to decide which wars are right and just and which are wrong and illegal. As a result, the only countries to be barred from...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Chris Andrews: The glass bottle site is a big site. Residents in Ringsend and Irishtown had big hopes that affordable and social housing would be delivered on that site, which would relieve the huge pressure residents are currently living under, and the overcrowded conditions, and would give people an opportunity to buy an affordable home in the community with the supports they require and deserve. That...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: For well over a decade, workers and families in Ringsend and Irishtown have been looking at the glass bottle site as their only hope for social and affordable homes. However, that hope has turned to fear as the local community see no determination from Dublin City Council or the Government to deliver genuinely affordable homes. No contract for affordable units has been signed yet. There is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: Recently, the Sporting Liberties report highlighted the severe lack of sports facilities in the inner city. It is an example of inner city neglect. Regeneration of council housing in the inner city is beyond slow. Flat complexes are being left derelict and empty for years in the middle of a housing crisis. Regeneration at Glovers Court, Pearse House and St. Andrew’s Court is...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: Last Friday the International Court of Justice made a decisive ruling. It ruled that South Africa has a plausible case against Israel for the crime of committing genocide. It is imperative that Ireland acts and joins South Africa in this case. lreland and the EU have a duty to promote, protect and support peace and stability in the region. We must make the terror state of Israel an...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: Immigration is causing a breakdown in social cohesion in Irish society and it is happening on the Minister's watch. In the view of the public, and in the experience of service providers in local communities, there is simply no co-ordination of services and no proper communication, as has been highlighted again and again. The Government is treating communities like fools and they have lost...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: We hear many people saying to leave politics out of sport. However, sport is increasingly being weaponised by oppressive regimes to win positive media coverage. It is called sportswashing. In the words of Nelson Mandela, sport has the power to change the world and the power to inspire. When you see the Dublin women's Gaelic football team and their brave and inspiring call for a ceasefire...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: Housing remains the number one issue for ordinary people. Prospective home buyers are being picked off by the vulture funds, and this Government's failures in housing have only increased the concerns of local communities. People who have grown up in their community want the opportunity to continue to live in there, near their support structures but without affordable housing, communities...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: I also ask him to meet with the residents who live beside the Irish Glass Bottle site.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: I appreciate the response but this must be resolved as a matter of urgency. Children have been displaced into other rooms and the library has been closed off completely. This is a huge hindrance to the entire school and all of the students. It affects everybody in the school. The Minister of State said the Department has advised the school to carry out a dry test but nobody going into...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: I am going to need a defibrillator first.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: I am sorry about that. I understood it was later on.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: Too efficient. I appreciate that. I did not hear my colleague's contribution, but the Enable Ireland Sandymount School has 40 students. Each one is medically dependent. There is a lovely, warm, caring atmosphere in the school. The staff go above and beyond for the current students. For five of the children, their class is closed because there are serious leaks in one of the rooms in the...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: I very much welcome the motion, particularly as, in the middle of the worst housing crisis this State has experienced, the Government is standing idly by and letting vulture funds swoop in and bulk-buy new family homes. Worse still, not only is it standing by, but it is incentivising and encouraging it. We need to see urgent measures taken to put a halt to the practice of these vulture...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: Residents in the new houses in Ringsend are being held hostage every single night and morning because of two two-way cycle lanes running up each side of Seán Moore Road. Residents in Bremen Avenue, Bremen Grove, Cymric Road and Pine Road are unable to get in and out of their homes. Getting out of the estate is impossible and it is very unsafe. I know the Tánaiste is going to say...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: But they are not doing it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: The senior management of the council has blocked any efforts and treated residents disgracefully and it is about time that somebody intervenes because someone will be killed or injured.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (12 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: Shelbourne Park greyhound track is in the heart of the inner city, not too far from here, between the Ringsend and South Lotts communities. Both these communities, along with communities right across the island of Ireland, have a deep sense of connection with the Shelbourne Park greyhound stadium. The cohesion and engagement between the stadium and the local community have been eroding in...