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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Could I just make a very quick point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I just want to follow up on what Deputy Martin Kenny was talking about. I can understand that whether there was any lobbying about this in 2009 is in the vaults of history, but I wonder if there has been any contact or lobbying of companies in regard to paying back over the three-year time period. I ask each of the witnesses to please respond to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Is that in relation to the payments over three years?

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Last week, all Members of the Oireachtas were invited to stand outside the Dáil and read names from a list of people who have been murdered in Gaza since this conflict began. I did not realise the weight of the task until I started reading those names. There was name after name on page after page. The list just seemed to go on forever. The most difficult part was reading out the...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I support this amendment and thank Deputy Murphy for tabling it. The way I look at it, if the Minister of State does not do this, he is actually tying the hands of GNI. He is constraining it, limiting it to very commercial activity and operations and not taking other things into consideration. Now is his opportunity. Bringing the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act through was a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the low-interest loans for retrofitting; when an interest rate will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3656/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Minister provide an update on the provision of low-interest loans for retrofitting? It is quite a few years since they were first mooted. When will we see such loans offered and what will the interest rate be?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am really disappointed that we do not seem to have the details of the loan scheme. The Minister launched the scheme two or three years ago. Every time I put in a question on it through the parliamentary system, I am told that information should be available in the following quarter. It seems the same response is being given again today. I acknowledge that progress has been made and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister said this has not been done before. In fact, other countries have given zero-interest loans. Brussels, for example, gives zero-interest loans for retrofitting. That would have actually been a much better solution because it means that retrofitting is going to be something that every household could look at - that there is not that upfront cost to them. That is just a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Department is not ahead of its B2 energy rating targets.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: One of the first things I tabled in this Dáil was a motion drafted by the Social Democrats for the eradication of consistent poverty among children. Unfortunately, the Government rejected it. We have not seen the reduction or eradication of consistent poverty among children that we need. The State of the Nation's Children report for 2023 was published earlier today. Instead of a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: We have not reduced child poverty, it is going up.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: What about qualified child payment?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Thousands more children are living in poverty.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a detailed timeline for the development, construction and delivery of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2558/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for details of, including an estimated timeline and how long the tendering process for a school (details supplied) will take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how long after the tender is awarded that construction will/can start for a project such as a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2560/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated date that construction of a school (details supplied) will be completed; when the school will be available for the school community to start using it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2561/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Some 280,000 farmers are still awaiting their agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payments. In counties such as Donegal and Cork, more than 3,500 are waiting while in Wicklow it is approximately 350. This is an important funding source for farmers to assist them to transition to more nature-friendly farming models. When will those payments be made? When will every farmer have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: By March?