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Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for Sport Ireland and Impact of Covid-19 on Sports Sector: Sport Ireland (18 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for Sport Ireland and Impact of Covid-19 on Sports Sector: Sport Ireland (18 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: When there is a return to level 3, some swimming clubs will be allowed to have kids swim in any area of the pool and yet lessons will not be allowed. Is that something that could be addressed so that there could be more usage of swimming pools? My understanding is that individual training is not allowed.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for Sport Ireland and Impact of Covid-19 on Sports Sector: Sport Ireland (18 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: Yet, a swimming pool can open and let 50 people swim in any direction they want. There is an inconsistency there and maybe that is something swimming pools could look at.

Planning and Development (Protect Social Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and to repeal section 97 subsection (3B). I seek leave to introduce the Bill, which comes about because the scrapping of height guidelines by the previous Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government means there is a lacuna in legislation. Previously, any site that...

Planning and Development (Protect Social Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: The Minister for Education was recently highlighting the reduction in class sizes and, where this happens, it is obviously welcome. However, in many schools, like St. Louis Primary School in Rathmines, the class sizes have increased due to the Department policy that was set prior to Covid. As a result, there is now an empty classroom in St. Louis Primary School and a teacher on the pandemic...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: She has been let go.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 87. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the process by which a person is identified as an elite athlete (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35559/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeline for the publishing of the updated level 3 and level 4 guidelines for indoor training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35571/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: I have twice raised the matter of scoliosis patients on Questions on Promised Legislation, and the case of 11-year-old Sophie Redmond. How far is the Government going to let Sophie and other scoliosis patients suffer, physically and mentally, before they have the urgent, time-sensitive surgeries they require?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: I have a question for the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers. I wish both the Minister and the Minister of State well in their roles. As has been said, they have certainly delivered early on. I refer to the expert group. As we are going and will perhaps continue to go up and down the levels of restrictions, there are different interpretations and there seems to be a lot of confusion...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: In light of the issues around the return to sport and the lack of clarity for many sporting organisations and gyms, will the Taoiseach consider additional members on the expert group on the return to sport to include non-contact sports such as athletics, golf and badminton?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Prison Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 470. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to sign off on a pension increase for retired prison officers under the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, provisions. [33136/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 1421. To ask the Minister for Health the number of members of the public who applied to be contact tracers; the number employed; and the number who started in each of the months of 2020 to date since the Covid-19 pandemic started. [33724/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 1422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of members of the public who applied to be contact tracers; and the number successfully employed. [33725/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 1423. To ask the Minister for Health the qualifying criteria to be eligible to be a contact tracer. [33726/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 1424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons redeployed from the Defence Forces and other sectors of the public service to be contract tracers. [33727/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Chris Andrews: 1425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed as contact tracers. [33728/20]

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Chris Andrews: I want to put on the record that the decision last night by the Government to seal the records of the survivors of the mother and baby homes was both sad and shameful. It will go down as one of the most uncaring acts by this Government in the lifetime of this Dáil. History will not look kindly on this Government. With regard to Covid-19, reducing teaching staff while increasing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (21 Oct 2020)

Chris Andrews: I thank the Minister of State. What has been happening recently, and accelerating over the past number of years, is that the likes of Facebook, Google and their senior management teams have been buying homes in the Ringsend area. Prices are huge there now. There is a small one-bedroom cottage in Ringsend for which people are being asked to pay more than €400,000. This is not...