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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: When the Minister refers to watching it, in order to know that something is an issue, one has to quantify it. Has it been quantified? Has the Minister determined how much embodied carbon the Housing for All plan will amount to and how that fits in with our climate targets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: That does not deal with embodied carbon though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I only have a minute left. Has the Department assessed the embodied carbon and quantified it for the Housing for All plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Each target. So the Department would not have specified targets for each year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Has the Department quantified the embodied carbon for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am sorry; I do not want to be rude but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister sounds like my mother here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Okay, so-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The embodied carbon for the Housing for All plan has not been modelled yet. Steps are in place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is the start date. Therefore, the Housing for All plan has not been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I just wonder if it has modelled the embodied carbon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I will finish about the date. I think it is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: What I take from it is that it has not been modelled, which is unfortunate since the Housing for All plan, in parallel with the climate action plan, is the largest policy of the State and Government. It would be good to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Yes. I will direct this to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. The nature restoration laws are being debated today, and it is very tight as to which way they are going to go from the committee. If those laws are not passed, what impact will that have on the Minister of State's plans and the NPWS's plans for peatland restoration? There is a site in Wicklow in the Brockagh area, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State, and my colleague for letting me in there.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (14 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details on when the low-interest loan for retrofitting will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28810/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reviews (14 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: 53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the energy review report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28811/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (14 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: 54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will detail the information collated by his Department on the energy usage by data centres; how this information is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28812/23]
- Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy John Brady in particular for bringing this motion forward. Deputy Brady has worked on this issue for a long time. When I was on Wicklow County Council with him, he put a massive amount of work into the issue. I want to acknowledge that. The Minister referred to his long-standing admiration for retained firefighters and for their dedication. He said he...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I have spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks speaking to firefighters in my constituency of Wicklow. When I talk to them, there are some themes coming through: their love for their job, their love for their community, and the huge impact their pay and conditions are having on them and their families' lives. They are really being asked to do the impossible under the current...