Results 1,801-1,820 of 1,830 for speaker:Chris Andrews

Legal Aid Service. (27 Sep 2007)

Chris Andrews: On 1 August 2007, Derek Cumiskey was killed in Lanzarote. He had turned 18 years of age two weeks prior to his murder. He was a well-liked student at St. Augustine's in Blackrock, County Dublin and lived nearby in Townsend Street. He had just completed his junior certificate and had been selected as student of the year at his school. He celebrated this achievement by going on holiday to...

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2007)

Chris Andrews: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this issue, which is extremely personal to almost everyone in the House and in society at large. I congratulate Deputies Reilly and O'Sullivan who are, I suppose, now on a tour of Angola. It is great that Deputy Harney was brave enough to take on the onerous job of Minister for Health and Children. Equally, they deserve credit for taking...

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2007)

Chris Andrews: I am sure they were delighted. It is a difficult issue. The delivery of cancer treatment and radiotherapy services has been a priority for this Government and will continue to be so, which I certainly welcome. Along with heart disease, cancer, as Deputy Calleary noted, affects almost everybody and scares people. Across Dublin, including Dublin South-East, people are being diagnosed and...

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2007)

Chris Andrews: It knows that the centres of excellence——

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2007)

Chris Andrews: It knows that there is not enough treatment capacity and that it is not safe. I know where I would want my family to be treated. It would not be treated in St. Luke's Hospital, rather it would be treated in a centre of excellence like St. James's Hospital or St. Vincent's Hospital.

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (27 Sep 2007)

Chris Andrews: The Opposition would make the same decision. It would not send family members to St. Luke's Hospital knowing that better, comprehensive and planned facilities and centres of excellence exist in St. James's Hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital. In the future, services will be transferred to St. James's Hospital, which will create an opportunity to provide community and step-down facilities on...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: There is not an Opposition with one voice.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: The Opposition does not have one voice.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: Deputy O'Dowd is in opposition.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his appointment and I look forward to working with him for the next five years and hopefully beyond. I am delighted to have this opportunity to speak because this issue goes beyond incinerators and incineration. Fine Gael's motion has less to do with waste management than with political points-scoring. It will not make any difference to the siting...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: Fine Gael has done nothing but offer words.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: Fine Gael is trying to give the impression it is united in its opposition to the incinerator. Last February, however, Fine Gael and Labour voted against a motion opposing the incinerator.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: It would do no harm if Deputy Burke came to visit Sandymount.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: Do the Fine Gael Deputies know where the Poolbeg Peninsula is? I do not think so. They do not know where it is.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: I suspect they do not know where Ringsend is.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: Deputy Ring is making it up as he goes along. Will he stop making it up?

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: I am sure the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will make allowances for Deputy Ring's interruptions which he seems to be expert at these days.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: People in the Visitors Gallery last night and tonight would be forgiven for thinking that Fine Gael and those who signed this motion care about this incinerator. If they care so much, why did they not support the meeting of the Combined Residents against Incineration last week when the petitions committee came to Dublin? There was no sign of the Labour Party or Fine Gael there.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: I was supporting the residents.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (4 Jul 2007)

Chris Andrews: This is a politically motivated motion.