Results 61-80 of 1,382 for and speaker:Chris Andrews

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a sanction will be granted for a reading school to be opened in an area (details supplied) to cater for the high number of dyslexic children in the locality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details suppled) and ensure that their prescription only drug will be made available to them. [6065/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent action will be taken to prioritise the reform of the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6611/24]

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: To echo the Minister's sentiments around the cycling and the tour, it would be really positive. I understand that major sport event funding will remain at €6.4 million as Ireland looks to develop as a location for hosting big tournaments such as the Ryder Cup, the European Championships in football and so on. My colleague, Deputy Mark Ward, and I have been talking with FAI and...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: ...from elite sportspeople. The Dublin ladies made a magnificent gesture to call for a ceasefire. Sporting people get what is happening in the Gaza Strip. They get there is this horrendous genocide and they also get that Israel is weaponising sport and sportswashing genocide. We have to go beyond just leaving it up to the sporting bodies. When a country is facing accusations and the...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: Has the Minister of State gone to FIBA? Would he not consider going to the federation and telling them?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Chris Andrews: The Minister of State did not mention getting a match between Ireland and Palestine. Would he support the FAI financially if it needs some money?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (31 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline when the transition year curriculum was last amended; if she will carry out a review of the possible benefit of adding dance and performative arts to the current curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4518/24]

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

Chris Andrews: ...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 outcast...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) and award them the Government electricity credit. [3641/24]

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

Chris Andrews: ...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 in Gaza, you...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (24 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a specific scheme is in place to assist older people obtaining a mortgage; and if so, the details of this scheme. [3107/24]

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...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (23 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he could ensure that issues around human rights in Western Sahara and the ongoing illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco will be included in EU Priorities in UN Human Rights Fora for 2024. [2759/24]

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: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (17 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in the history of the State, diplomatic status has even been given to representatives of a political movement (such as the African National Congress or Palestine Liberation Organization), as opposed to the more standard diplomatic status for representatives of a State; and if this has not been granted, if he could explain how relations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that resources are made available to a school (details supplied) to carry out all necessary repairs as a matter of urgency. [56750/23]