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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Yes, and I think a jigsaw of policy responses will be required.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I share those concerns and the carbon issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will be quick because I have to go. This is for the Department. It is important to be able to map things. We are doing the land use planning. We are setting out all the major potential things that could impact on our environment. The Department of agriculture was recently ordered to release information to make it public that it has essentially been fighting the provision of any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Department would not provide that information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: So the Department will not be appealing the decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will make a comment. I just listened to the closing statements. Obviously, I am one of the people who comes from an environmental perspective on many of these issues, but I do not see it as an either-or. Absolutely not. There is absolutely a way that we can get a sustainable and economically viable way of farming, which is fundamentally important because farmers are business people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I assume I get the 30 seconds.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Bill. At this point, we are looking at it on a high level. As we go through the remainder of the process, a lot of the details will be discussed and elements of it will, I hope, be improved. A few points strike me in the first instance. In principle, I absolutely welcome statutory limits and timelines. What will be really important is what they...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: In January of this year, Storm Éowyn hit Ireland and left the country reeling. We were not prepared for it and the havoc it wreaked on communities was devastating. Some 750,000 people were left without power and it cost over €300 million to deal with the damage. We were actually quite lucky in that storm because it could have been a whole lot worse. The Climate Change Advisory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank everyone for coming in today. I particularly thank Mr. Conor Arnold and Mr. John Ruby. We met yesterday at the River Blackwater to have a chat and a more in-depth conversation. I thank them for coming up today. It is a long journey. From looking at the front of the report, there are a lot of agencies involved. Who was responsible for managing this process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: On 11 August, IFI was informed there had been a fish kill. It was on site by approximately midday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: What samples were taken on that day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am sorry but I am going to be quite short and go back and forth because I am so limited in time. When a fish kill is identified, I would have thought people would be on site – which IFI was - taking water, sediment and fish samples. That did not happen on day one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: In the report that Cork County Council submitted, it says that IFI shared its initial assessments suggesting a possible fungal outbreak or disease, exacerbated by low water levels and high temperatures, as early investigations yielded no signs of pollution. Did that happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: If that was the indication or suspicion, however, did that lead to a belief that it was a natural event and that there was nothing to be seen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Mr. Fox does not believe that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Did IFI look at the fish on that day? I am just trying to work out who was doing what on site. IFI arrived. Its primary remit relates to fish, rather than water quality or anything else. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Did IFI look at the fish on day one? Did its officers pick fish up to look to see whether there were fungi on their gills? Was any of that carried out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: This was not in the media; I am reading this from Cork County Council’s report. In that document, it says that IFI shared its assessment suggesting a possible fungal outbreak. It seems absolutely incredible that an agency was on site when there was a fish kill and no water samples were collected, regardless of IFI’s remit. That seems like a huge gap in any protocol. It...