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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.

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

Chris Andrews: It is a very nice, comfortable bed, I can tell you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (24 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available to a person (details supplied) to provide financial assistance with paying the fees for a transition year course for her son. [43617/24]

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Sports Facilities (17 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: The announcement of funding and grants is all well and good but how much of it is making its way down to the local community? You do not have to go too far from here to see. Someone living in Pearse House or Markievicz House has almost no good-quality sports or leisure facilities, so the Minister of State can spin and make announcements but families in Pearse House, Markievicz House and...

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Sports Facilities (17 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: Ireland is increasingly difficult for young people to grow up in. Sporting activities lead to mounting pressures for both providers and participants as the cost of living and lack of facilities escalate. This is creating increased inequalities in our society and nowhere is it clearer than in Dublin's inner city. The group Sporting Liberties has launched a very strong campaign highlighting...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: Ireland's animal welfare and dog welfare record is appalling. Ireland's record as the puppy farm capital of Europe and of backyard breeding is a shameful legacy of the Government. The Government's ban on XL bully dogs has resulted in dog rescue groups being overwhelmed on so many levels. Given that the term XL is not straightforward, can the Tánaiste state why there is no appeals...