Results 2,681-2,700 of 4,037 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Environmental Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the development of a roadmap to promote greater use of lower-carbon building material in construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 306. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the review of the large-scale infrastructural fund will be completed; if there is scope for awarding new grants to projects which missed out under the first set of allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4330/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff that have been assigned to the recently established wildlife crime unit in the National Parks; the number of additional rangers that have been employed on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Consultations (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of consultations and the name of each consultation that has commenced or is ongoing in his portfolio; the timeline for each consultation; when they will be incorporated into public policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4304/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Coastal Protection (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the national coastal change management strategy is expected to be published which is now overdue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the available data on the number of non-principle private residencies in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of extra staff that have been allocated for the passport office out of the 300 committed to in November 2021 to deal with the backlog of passport applications and anticipated increase in demand ahead of the summer months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4262/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she anticipates that schools will see a corresponding easing of measures that have been put in place over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4444/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that currently have HEPA filters in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4512/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the planning application for a school build (details supplied) will be lodged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional temporary accommodation to meet the September 2022 needs of a school (details supplied) [4853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the expansion to a double stream school for a national school (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [4854/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the eligibility for children to avail of early childhood care and education, ECCE, is capped at age five years and six months old; the reason that children who surpass this age while in the programme are ruled out for the year entirely; if his attention has been drawn to the financial burden on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a transitional fund available for child care facilities from May to August 2022; if so, if a child care provider can increase fees during this time; when further information will be provided to facilities and parents of the new funding model due to commence in September 2022; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of education and training opportunities offered under the SOLAS green skills action programme due to be completed by the fourth quarter in 2022 as set out in the climate action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4311/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has worked on clearing Covid-19-related backlogs in apprenticeship as part of climate action No. 222 in the climate action plan’s annex of actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Teagasc as a State body is answerable to him as laid out in the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act 1988; if Teagasc is in fact a charity run by its trustees answerable to the Charities Regulator as laid out in the Charities Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4256/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts his Department is taking to protect the endangered old Irish goat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4329/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will raise the issue of the €100 electricity credit payment, which I understand is coming before the Dáil next week. Like many others, I share the concerns about it not being a targeted approach. I understand the administrative burden related to means testing something like that, but I cannot understand why this Government will also give 62,000 holiday homeowners that credit....

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I extend my sympathy to the family of Ashling Murphy and everyone who loved her, and many did, as well as to the other women who have suffered from domestic or gender-based violence, who have died from it or who have lived intolerable lives because of the impact of violence against them. Like everyone else in the country, I have had time over the past couple of weeks to reflect on the type...