Results 101-120 of 1,383 for and speaker:Chris Andrews

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...

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

Chris Andrews: ...every piece of sporting infrastructure it can get. It would be shame if an opportunity was missed. As I said, it has been done in the dog track in Galway with Connacht Rugby. Maybe Sport Ireland could intervene. There must be some avenue by which Shelbourne Park greyhound track can reach its full potential because it is currently only operating three nights a week. Office facilities...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: Month after month and year after year, we have watched this Government fail to bring the housing crisis under control. From what I can see, this Government is effectively trying to normalise the crisis and trying to get ordinary people to think that this is just the way it is, that these things happen and that it will work its way through it. We in Sinn Féin will never accept this....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are any specific guidelines for companies or other entities engaged with trade and other economic activities in territories deemed to be illegally occupied under international law. [54673/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (12 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade while Ireland has a consistent policy on the status of Western Sahara and support for self-determination, if his Department has any concrete proposals for how a meaningful exercise of self-determination could happen; and could he explain how these proposals have been advanced with the broader international community. [54674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Agreements (12 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with regard to European Court of Justice cases on fisheries and free association agreements with Morocco, which included the occupied Western Sahara (Cases C-778/21 P, C-779/21 P, C-798/21 P), if he could request the European Commission for an indication on how they would intend to enforce the ruling in the case of the Court of Justice...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (12 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he, along with embassy officials in Rabat, could raise the issue of human rights abuses with their Moroccan counterparts, including the issue of political prisoners, in particular if he could highlight the issue of the Gdeim Izik prisoners from Western Sahara, given that as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2010, he expressed his deep...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (12 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact his Department anticipates for Derravaragh Road, Melvin Road, Hazelbrook Road and Corrib Road in Dublin 6W as a result of the proposed BusConnects scheme roll-out; if cars entering the Lower Kimmage Road from Corrib Road and Aideen Avenue will still be able to turn both left and right; if cars will be able to access Terenure...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (7 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 211. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on a club’s (details supplied) sports capital grant; and when the club can expect to receive a decision on its application. [54384/23]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...Bank, the demarcation of the population into racial groups, the forcing of the different designated groups to reside in different geographic areas, the restriction of movement between those areas and the repressive security matrix, which includes detention, torture, censorship, banning and extrajudicial assassinations. However, one South African journalist wrote: "We never experienced,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...While many are earmarked for regeneration in the coming years, there needs to be more urgency. Dublin's public realm also needs to experience regeneration. Recently, I met several business owners and residents from Temple Bar thanks to Mr Stephen Kennedy of Copper and Straw coffee shop on Arran Quay. I recommend that the Taoiseach drop in there for a coffee to see the daily chaos in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artifacts Recovery (6 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 86. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has pursued the return to Ireland of important Irish artifacts kept in British museums (details supplied); and if his Department has questioned the legitimacy with which these or other artifacts were removed from Ireland to be placed in British museums. [54146/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied); and if every support possible will be provided to them to assist with safe passage out of Gaza for their children [53263/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Racism in Sport (5 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: 270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in light of the Gymnastics Ireland scandal and the promise from Sport Ireland to introduce anti-racism training in the NGBs; if she will can outline what percentage of the fund going to the twenty nine local sports partnerships will be ringfenced for this training; who will carry out the training; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (5 Dec 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...change regarding transgender women receiving breast augmentation as essential surgery (details supplied); the reason they have lost access to healthcare abroad under the Cross Border Directive; and the reason he and the HSE, specifically under the Cross Border Directive have allowed this blanket policy regarding breast augmentation for transgender women to be adopted. [53261/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...to see what that is. Nobody is being held to account. In regard to the meeting of 11 December, what would the Minister consider the best outcome from that to be? When it comes to the FAI and gender quotas in sports organisations, they are told that if they do not meet a certain level, their funding will be cut. A similar approach needs to be applied to St. John Ambulance. It cannot be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...does that send to other organisations about protecting members in the event of children being sexually abused? How, as a country, do we allow there to be no consequences for current senior and former members of St. John Ambulance for the covering up of sexual abuse of children within the organisation? Questions arise as to what St. John Ambulance has done to change since Dr. Shannon's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: I agree with the Tánaiste's comments on the West Bank. The West Bank is clearly of huge concern. It is not in the public eye as much because, understandably, people are focused on what is happening - the slaughter in the Gaza Strip. I understand that this morning at rush hour, two gunmen jumped out of a car in Jerusalem, opened fire and killed three people. I think the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: ...the European Union's approach to the situation in the Gaza Strip. We saw the best of the EU in the response to the brutal crimes inflicted on Ukraine but we have seen the opposite approach to Israel, and that cannot be denied. Some 6,000 children have been slaughtered and the EU has not in any way shown a similar approach to that taken to Ukraine. Is there any hope that the EU will take...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Chris Andrews: 156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the effort he is making to secure a ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50156/23]