Results 801-820 of 4,037 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is what the EPA has said the current action plan specifies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Will the climate action plan be finalised at the end of this month?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: What additional emissions reductions will be incorporated? When the EPA does its analysis next June, will we be looking at another percentage point difference, up to 30% of the 51% following the changes to climate action plan, or does the Minister anticipate that we could be potentially up to 35% or 40%? What percentage reduction will the next climate action plan achieve?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: So carbon capture and storage will probably be a component of the 2004 plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: In relation to the discussion that we had this morning, one of the issues that is frequently raised with us is that in order for us to meet our climate actions, what we need is policy coherence across all levels and elements of Government and the climate action plan is an attempt to do that. Often we do not see that, particularly when it comes to agriculture. Indeed, what the Minister will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: He attended this morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: There was interaction on the issue this morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The plan for reductions in the dairy sector was a voluntary scheme and would have to have been a part of just transition. It would have given farmers an alternative. However, that work does not seem to be progressing at all, which is a shame. The Minister mentioned wind turbines earlier. We must be cognisant of biodiversity impacts and the potential to switch off the turbines in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Hydropower is renewable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Minister communicate with the ESB in respect of that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Will he do so again formally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I want to flag something with the Minister. I am on the board of a rivers trust, and one of the key problems is that we have a lot of fantastic expertise but we do not have any administrative support. When you go for funding it is difficult to get any money to provide that. We have the best experts when it comes to ecology, river management and so on, but we do not have the administrative...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister for that. In relation specifically to the direction the Minister issued to Gas Networks Ireland, GNI, that they were not to connect data centres to the gas supply, is this direction statutorily robust? Is it the case that this is now in place and there is a moratorium on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The EPA, in its analysis in June, in which it reviewed how progress was made against the climate action plan, projected that emissions from the agriculture sector will decrease by between 4% and 20% to 2030. Based on the EPA's analysis, therefore, the maximum reduction in emissions from agriculture will be 20%, but the reduction could be anywhere between 4% and 20%. Is the Minister in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister raised the issue in respect of the wind turbines.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State for attending and representing the Minister for Education. In early October, the three principals in the town of Greystones in Wicklow came together in an unprecedented fashion to issue a press release telling parents that there was a high likelihood that, between the three schools, sufficient places would not be provided for pupils from local primary schools...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State. Parents will be very relieved to hear the guarantee that there will be a school place for each of the children. We now need this to happen quickly so parents will know a solution will be put in place quickly if they receive refusals at the end of this week or early next week. In Greystones, and indeed in the north Wicklow area, these solutions have taken an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. As the Chair said, they were in depth. There is an awful lot to cover. I will focus on the investment fund. The research and review are incredibly timely because the principles underpinning the incorporation of the divestment Act into the infrastructure fund appear to be exactly what is underpinning the new infrastructure and climate and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Data centres are such a significant component of overall energy demand. We are looking at 30% whereas it is an average of 2% across other European countries. We get a disproportionately much higher concentration here. Whether it is because of the weather or the regulatory system, we place no-----