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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for allowing me to speak today because it is great to have the opportunity to have face-to-face engagement with the Department. I have had many discussions with the Department via parliamentary questions and emails. I primarily want to raise the issue of capacity in the Greystones area. We have seen a very significant population growth there of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Which they do, to be fair to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: They all work really well together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: We are tight on time. I know that there are 75 fewer places for September 2024, regardless of the duplicates and all of that. The schools work closely together and use a good model in how they approach it. How will those 75 students be accommodated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: That will not make any difference to the parents who are going to be on to me in a month's time asking where their children are going to go to school. Will the Department guarantee that those children in Greystones will have a place in their local community? If so, how is that going to be achieved? That is all I want, aside from responses to the other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Do not let him talk again. I still want to follow up on the other issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I may have taken Mr. Loftus by surprise. I am not sure if he was aware of the deficit of 75 places. I ask him to come back to me on that. It is really important. On the funding for the bus, those children have been walking backwards and forwards to that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The school has been hearing that for a long time. My understanding is that the patron has lodged an application for that. When will that be signed off? We cannot have a situation where children have to walk to sports facilities in the rain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I also raised the issue of temporary accommodation in Blessington Community College.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: With all due respect to the Minister of State, my question was related to bus cancellations in Wicklow and he did not mention Wicklow once in this reply. Could he please tell me what I will tell parents in Wicklow who do not have a seat on a school bus for their children tomorrow and next week? While he can play with words and say that they the routes were not cancelled but were handed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Could I say something?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I was just saying I will make myself available for a Topical Issue next week so the Minister can come in and address it. I know parents are really worried about it, and I will make sure I can get in for that, if it is possible.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, for being here today, but I do wish the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, was present, because this is a huge issue. It has been a big issue for a number of weeks now. We are not seeing the kind of response that is needed on this issue from the Department of Education, the office of the Minister or, indeed, Bus Éireann. I am...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I look forward to it. I thank Deputy O'Callaghan for tabling the motion. It is an incredibly important issue and has been such for many years. It is the primary issue for many people in communities. There are 12,847 people homeless and I suspect it is the only thing they have on their minds at the moment. I was looking forward to the opportunity to have a grown-up conversation about...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: That should be in the legislation. The targeting of it should also be spelled out in the legislation. An element of the Bill I welcome and was interested to see is that the hedging element from these companies will be notified to the CRU as the competent authority. That is welcome but I ask that it not be limited to the Bill and this period in time. It is important that the CRU has the...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: We welcome this Bill and the opportunity to have a debate on it today. Over the past few years, we have seen the impact and huge community and societal cost of the prices. There have been record energy prices for consumers, and record levels of energy poverty and disconnections. At the same time, along with the incredible impact on our communities and individuals, there have been record...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (20 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what measures his Department is undertaking to ensure that budgetary proposals this year relating to overseas development assistance and climate finance are not double-counted with regard to meeting international commitments relating to both; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40561/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (20 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any portion of Ireland's oversees development assistance budget has been used for the purposes of enhancing European Union border security or funding migration control facilities in third countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (20 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 868. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if as part of his Department's budgetary proposals this year will they propose measures to address issues raised by a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 886. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on when the report on the cariban reimbursement scheme review will be published; if further changes will be made to the scheme than the changes (details supplied) that were announced at the end of August 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39530/23]