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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is great to have them here. I will engage in a little backwards and forwards; first, with Wind Energy Ireland. We have an 80% electricity generation target for renewables. What is the target for offshore for 2030? On the current trajectory, what does Mr. Moran think we will reach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will we have any offshore wind?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Arklow has been decommissioned. I was looking at it the other day; it is being taken apart. We have gone backwards when it comes to offshore wind production because we no longer have that one entity producing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is not generating. As a result, we have no electricity being generated offshore and it is unlikely we will have any by 2030.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is very worrying. Can anything be done to expedite the relevant projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: One of the things that has been raised with me by those in the industry is that there is not any pre-planning consultation with national parks. As a result, when An Bord Pleanála or An Coimisiún Pleanála come back, they look for information that those to whom I refer believe could have built into their planning applications head of time. They see that as quite a constraint....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am not sure there are many different stakeholder groups. Is there any stakeholder group that involves MARA, An Bord Pleanála, Wind Energy Ireland, the national parks and the State agencies and at which issues can be raised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is very worrying that we will have zero wind energy from offshore by the 2030 deadline, at which point we will be at risk of €26 billion in fines for not meeting our climate targets. We need to push for better co-ordination and resourcing. I know certain entities are struggling with that. All three groups might be able to respond on this. The marine protected areas legislation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Mr. McCabe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Mr. Moran. I have many concerns about moving from one process to another, particularly when it was so close to being delivered or potentially delivered. Folding it in with another process that is, in itself, quite complex, especially from a consultation perspective, as was said, and loading another layer of consultation and objectives on that is quite worrying. Is MARA operating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am very familiar with that area. I am from there. It is great to see. Wexford has such a strong maritime history. My family, going back many generations, worked on the sea. It is great to see the authority down at the bottom of Fishers Row. Maybe if I am down there someday I will pop in. I am just wondering from a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Can I just ask about timelines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is grand.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding his Department's drafting of a code of conduct for interacting with basking sharks under the Wildlife Act 1976; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39150/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: ACRES Payments (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date when an individual (details supplied) will receive his ACRES payments; if he will instruct a Department official to engage with this individual to inform them of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39137/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I raise a commitment and a promise that was made by the former Minister for Health to cancer groups across Wicklow last October. The former Minister promised funding for a number of cancer care groups, namely, Purple House Cancer Support, Arklow Cancer Support, Greystones Cancer Support, Wicklow Cancer Support, Rathdrum Cancer Support, Roundwood Cancer Support and West Wicklow Cancer...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Here are the pure, basic facts. Grocery prices have gone up 36% since 2021. That is an additional €3,000 on an average family grocery shop. It is an incredible increase and it is putting huge pressure on families. Some 71% of Irish families say they are very concerned about food prices and we have seen that four in ten parents skip meals so their children can eat. That is a...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — households across the country are struggling to make ends meet as the cost of living soars; — more than 70 per cent of people in Ireland are either, "extremely" or "very" concerned about the cost of groceries, according to the recent PwC's Voice of the Consumer Survey 2025; — many families are now spending...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Part of the privilege of being in government is that the Minister of State can intervene. She can change the law, empower regulators and force supermarkets to publish their profits. The big question the Minister of State needs to answer today is why the Government has done none of these things. Why is the Cabinet acting like bystanders, narrating a problem instead of doing anything? I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Government is failing farmers and failing the environment.