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Child Care Inquiry Report: Statements (28 Oct 2010)

Barry Andrews: I thank the Whips and the spokespersons of the Opposition for allowing this debate to happen as quickly as it has and for their understanding in this matter. I congratulate Ms Norah Gibbons on the first-class report she has produced. She has mapped out a way forward in the very difficult area of reporting on child care tragedies. Thus, we can ensure they are reported in a timely fashion...

Hospital Services. (24 Mar 2010)

Barry Andrews: I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney. The Government is committed to ensuring the delivery and maintenance of the best quality health service possible and providing the highest standard of patient care in an effective and efficient way within the resources allocated. Portiuncula Hospital plays an important...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (11 Jun 2009)

Barry Andrews: I wish to share my time with Deputy Mattie McGrath. The history of our country in the 20th century will be rewritten as a result of the Ryan commission of inquiry and its report. Things we held to be self-evident have been challenged to their core. Yesterday, survivors brought a banner to Leinster House referring to the phrase in the 1916 Proclamation that the State would resolve to...

Seanad: Hospital Services (19 May 2009)

Barry Andrews: I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. The Government has shown its commitment to the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar through a series of capital improvements in recent years. Stage one of the phase 2B capital development at Mullingar commenced in 2006 and is scheduled for completion shortly at a cost of €23...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)

Barry Andrews: I reiterate that I have enormous sympathy for parents who have to go through this process because it is unnecessarily prolonged and drawn out. It can be tortuous and really tough on parents because much of the time they have had painful and difficult problems relating to having children. I would love, as a Minister of State, to be able to make this reform and shorten that period of...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Barry Andrews: All joking aside, Saudi Arabia experienced great wealth from oil but everyone is now saying we have reached peak oil point and it is now making its slow but inevitable exit from the energy market to be replaced by something else. If oil had not reached that point, however, there would still be a moral imperative to pursue renewable energy. We have been here before. The oil price crisis in the...