Results 2,721-2,740 of 4,037 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the publication of the report of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2403/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent building will be secured for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2401/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2402/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if extra staffing and resources will be put in place to deal with the backlog of birth, death and marriage restrictions in County Wicklow in view of other counties receiving extra staffing and resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63423/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the publication of the annual report for 2021 submitted by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection on 30 June 2021; the timeline for the publication of the report on illegal adoptions which was submitted to the Government on 30 September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1878. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a full-time coordinator for the Bray local drugs and alcohol task force which has been without a coordinator for three and a half years out of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2215/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of landowners found to have been ineligible for funding under an area-based scheme in each of the past ten years due to an incidence of illegal burning in the previous period by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1953. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections, ground and satellite, undertaken by his Department to identify illegal burns by county; the number of illegal burns successfully identified as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times land declared as eligible on a basic payment scheme application was identified as having been burned during the closed season; the number of successful appeals made against this; the criteria by which an appeal is judged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63088/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank our guests for attending the meeting. My first question is for Mr. Ó Raghallaigh and it relates to the annual review of the climate action committee. That review mentions that the national climate action delivery board, the role of which is to hold Departments and public bodies accountable for the delivery of their actions, did not meet at all in 2020, despite a commitment to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I meant to address it to Mr. Mahon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The board only met once in 2020 and 2021. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Did that have anything to do with the failure to meet our targets under the 2019 action plan? Quite a number of targets were missed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: On the 90,000 vacant houses, has Mr. Lemass a target for the number he would like to see retrofitted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: That was the question. is there a target for the number of vacant homes to be retrofitted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Ms O'Grady and Mr. Lemass.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Mr. Mahon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Ms Garvey for her presentation and for all the work NESC has done on just transition. A considerable amount of research documentation has been produced. It is very useful to have that available. During the development of the climate legislation, some members of the committee expressed concern that the principles of just transition and the definition just transition were not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the speakers. It has been an incredibly interesting discussion. I wish I had much longer. I have many questions for each of the witnesses but I will primarily focus on the issue of agriculture and agricultural emissions. The question will be for Mr. Rushe. One word that kept on coming up, yesterday and today, is "honest": honest discussions and being honest with stakeholders....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: -----was paid to reduce the number of cattle on his or her farm and reduce the emissions but the farmer did not see any reduction in farm profitability, is that something the IFA would be open to?