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Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That policy position has been set aside. What is needed is a firm policy. I will not get it from the Minister today.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have a supplementary question. In the event a commercial LNG facility is developed----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Excellent. In the event a commercial LNG facility is developed, would the Minister consider there was still a case for a State-owned one, which would cost approximately €1 billion?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The risk is that if a commercial one is developed, it would be hard to justify spending €1 billion on a temporary State-owned one.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I share the concerns about not having stand-alone legislation to deal with marine ecology and marine protected areas. Inevitably what will happen if we amend other legislation, whether it is DMAPs or the Wildlife Act, is that there will be a watering down of it. I am finding it hard to understand this. Three years have been spent developing this stand-alone legislation. What are the...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is great to hear. Even though it is a new Administration, the Minister did have responsibility for this in his previous role and the fact that it is the same Minister dealing with it now should certainly help to bring it to fruition. It is really important that there is no watering down and that it is stand-alone legislation. I take the Minister's point about going from 3% to 10% but...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: This is the rapid-fire round. On data centres, I absolutely agree we have to have to be strategic about them. We need to work out how many we can afford to have in the country from energy security, energy demand, energy pricing and emissions perspectives. I welcome the CRU report and hope that will be delivered shortly. The sum of €14 billion the ESB requested for grid investment...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The ESB only factored in the existing data centres.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That has not been identified and the funding for that has not been-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the special schools redesignation on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36406/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the changes coming in under the redesignation of special schools will come into place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36407/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the channels that exist for a prisoner in the UK, with family connections in Ireland, to be transferred to the Irish prison system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36253/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 246. To ask the Minister for Health when the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital was established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36403/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 247. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to establish the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36404/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 248. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing numbers at the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital, broken down between full- and part-time staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36405/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: And the LNG issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Under Standing Order 35(3), I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business in relation to statements on LNG. It was reported today that An Coimisiún Pleanála has written to the Minister seeking a clear position from Government on commercial LNG. It is time for the Government to stop talking out of both sides of its mouth with regard to LNG. We need clarity on that.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Review of Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am indeed. I thank the witnesses for their contributions. This system is relatively new to me and, I imagine, to some other members of the committee also. I am trying to get my head around how it operates. When I look through the penalty system and the list of infringements, from a fisheries management perspective I can understand why each of the infringements is listed. They range...