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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Essentially, what will be available for those households that do not meet the eligibility criteria under the warmer homes programme but will not have the money upfront to pay and will need to get a low-cost loan?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have a specific question in regard to subhead C7 on landfill remediation. The Minister of State specified that Kerdiffstown in County Kildare is programmed to get €14 million. A similar dump in Wicklow, Whitestown dump, is being remediated at the moment. Has any budget been allocated for that?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Is it possible to talk to the officials on this specifically?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Chairman.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: In 2018 the Tánaiste told the European Parliament that Ireland was a climate laggard and promised to do much more to protect the environment. Four years later, the European Commission is not very impressed with the Government's progress. A director in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment, Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea, recently gave a speech in which he did not just...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The increase in the number of judicial reviews in this country coincides completely with the introduction of the strategic housing development, SHD, planning process. That is because SHDs bypass local democracy, so there was not an opportunity for people to put in planning objections to local councils. They only had the opportunity to raise objections with An Bord Pleanála. If that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I would be pleased if the Minister would provide a response to that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I did not realise this question would be coming up.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the specific amount of funding provided to support domestic violence services as part of Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to establish a dedicated child poverty unit in his Department to combat child poverty in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5415/22]

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Feel free.

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Every family in this country has been touched in one way or another by cancer. It is a diagnosis that can send a person and their family into a state of shock, grief and despair. It is often the start of a very long and difficult journey for everybody involved. However, there is a second shock which people never expect and which comes as a complete bombshell to them and that is the shock...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is still actively considering a site (details supplied) for a new school build; if a decision has been made to look at a different site; if so, when that decision was made; if stakeholders have been notified of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a master-plan was completed for a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5502/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Rights of the Child in respect of Domestic and International Surrogacy: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank everyone for speaking to us and especially Ms Merrigan, Ms Cohalan and Mr. Kenny Moore for being such fantastic advocates for their children and their families. There has been a huge amount of information, with much to take in and digest and I am relatively new to this issue. I have a couple of questions. The first relates to what Professor O'Mahony was talking about, namely,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Rights of the Child in respect of Domestic and International Surrogacy: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Okay. I thank Mr. Kenny Moore.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Change Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 183. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the actions as set out in the Climate Action Plan 2021 in the areas of just transition, carbon pricing, electricity, enterprise, built environment, the National Retrofit Plan, transport, agriculture, land use, circular economy and adaptation. [4307/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Change Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 184. To ask the Taoiseach if all Departments have established a climate action unit; and if all units are currently operational. [4317/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the final draft of the renewable electricity support scheme terms and conditions will be published; the number of submissions that were made as part of the public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4294/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of consultations that have taken place in relation to the development of the national clean air strategy; the way they have been incorporated into Government policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4302/22]