Results 581-600 of 1,827 for speaker:Chris Andrews

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (18 Jan 2023)

Chris Andrews: 602. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will respond to concerns relating to an agreement between Morocco and an Israeli energy company (details supplied) for natural gas exploration in the territorial waters of Western Sahara; and if this theft of Western Sahara’s natural resources will be highlighted with the Moroccan and Israeli ambassadors. [63453/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (18 Jan 2023)

Chris Andrews: 607. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the relationship between Ireland and the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization C-24; the input that Ireland has made to this special committee; and if Ireland has ever applied to join same. [63899/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Chris Andrews: 1302. To ask the Minister for Health if a service provided by the HSE in Crumlin, Dublin 12 could be restored (details supplied); and the reason for its removal from the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63680/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2023)

Chris Andrews: 1383. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given a date for an operation in Beaumont Hospital given that they have been waiting for five years for this operation and their mobility has deteriorated. [1025/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Chris Andrews: 1414. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the pandemic recognition payment. [1157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (18 Jan 2023)

Chris Andrews: 1536. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) and instruct the HSE’s environmental health section to take urgent attention to eradicate the rat infestation in this property. [1667/23]

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...

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

Chris Andrews: The last few sentences of the Minister of State's response provided some bit of hope, because there is clearly an issue around developments being exempted due to the site being 0.1 hectares. The scraping of height restrictions has led to applications for ten- and 15-storey buildings. There was an application for a 15-storey building in Ringsend with public housing available on the site but...

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,...

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...

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]

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]