Results 1-11 of 11 for waste management speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...59% decline, almost one third, since 2000. This species will be extinct in 25 years unless we make the changes required. That means making tough decisions when it comes to where Coillte is planting and how peatlands are being managed. Currently, there is more breeding happening outside special protection areas for this species than there is within these because of the level of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (27 Apr 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...since the announcement by Panda that it would bring in charges for the collection of brown bins for domestic users. We all know that the public bin collection was privatised in an era when waste production and management was not considered as urgent an issue as it is today, and the climate and environmental impacts of it were not as appreciated. This is in part due to the greater...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Government too late in reforming Coillte to prevent this model, where profits will go out of the country and the heavy lifting is being done by a State entity? Coillte will find the land, plant it and manage it, and international investors will be subsidised to receive those profits in 20, 30 or 40 years' time. The question is why the Government is not making that investment. If it...

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...not heard anyone else talking about this document. I also want to mention the issue of just transition. I welcome the fact that the Minister of State engaged with the committee on the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022 and included poverty proofing and disability proofing of it. I reiterate my disappointment that the just...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...to net zero and achieving a climate-neutral economy not later than 2050. It also puts on a statutory footing the circular economy strategy, the circular economy programme and the national food waste prevention roadmap, which will focus on reducing food waste by 50% by 2030. We live in a linear economy, where raw materials are collected, often to the detriment of developing nations,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: .... When we are talking about a finite or polluting resource, the first principle is not to use it. When we are talking about transport, we have the avoid principle and when we are talking about waste, we have the reduce principle. However, when it comes to energy, there does not seem to be a similar principle on which we focus with this Bill or even from a policy perspective across...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...this important sector over the lifetime of many Governments and over generations. In 2019, the European Court of Justice found that Ireland had failed to uphold EU law in respect of almost 30 waste water treatment schemes across the country, including in Arklow in my home county of Wicklow. A report by the EPA in 2019 found that raw sewage was flowing into rivers and seas in 33 places...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...clear objectives in support of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity at the core of legislation. Other countries, such as Costa Rica, have done this very successfully.That country has managed to provide a broad and multifaceted objective in its legislation which focuses on the integration of biodiversity into policies and the State's decision–making processes. In...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Minister said earlier that this was going to be a huge challenge but he believes that we can do it, that we will be good at it as a country, and I agree with him about that. Look at how we have managed the Covid-19 crisis. We came together and showed solidarity as a community to fight the virus. Climate change is as big a challenge for us to get through and we will only do so together....

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...we need to incorporate nature-based solutions into our climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. There has been a real gap to date and that gap is reflected in this Bill as well. It is a wasted opportunity because it fails to recognise the value of nature-based solutions and what they can add not only from a climate mitigation and adaptation perspective but also in the sense of...

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Second Stage (15 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: ..., while responsibility for the environment is now being spread across others, including water within the Department of housing, where heritage and biodiversity have also found their new home. Waste, environmental awareness and climate are with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment while forestry and the marine are within the Department of Agriculture, Food and...