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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Okay. The term "effective condition" depends on whether one looks at this through an engineering or a natural lens in terms of how it is applied. Is that correct? Is the work defined under the Act to an engineering-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Today's meeting is about dams and barriers. The OPW has not quantified the number of dams and barriers. Is that correct? That work is under way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: If the OPW thinks approximately 81 barriers are potential barriers to migration, does it have a timeline for dealing with those or is this something it is still working on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am referring to a timeline to remediate them, whether by removal or modification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Okay. I thank Mr Casey. Does the OPW have specific funding available for that project or will that come through IFI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Mr. Casey. There are 150 flood relief schemes and those in tranche one are under way. How many of these 150 have incorporated nature-based solutions? Are any of them based solely on nature-based solution measures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is great. One of our difficulties is that we have lost trust in nature. We are so used to engineering our way out of problems that we just do not trust nature's response or nature-based solutions. In instances where hard engineering solutions are being put in place, are nature-based solutions being incorporated upstream at the same time? This would be as a pilot to show exactly how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: We can ask a few questions on his behalf.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details on how many occasions the rail line between Greystones and Bray has been closed annually from 2020-2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10090/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures in place for the deposit return scheme for housebound or disabled persons who shop for groceries online and are unable to physically access the deposit return scheme in shops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11151/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: On 3 October I brought to the attention of the Department of Education that there will be a shortfall of at least 72 secondary school places in the Greystones area. We have had a number of interactions with the Department since then. The latest was on 8 February when the Department told us it was working on plans to accommodate those children. We have since seen two additional classes...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Where to start? Speaking as someone who has worked and studied in this area since I was 17, the debate so far this evening has been incredibly difficult to listen to. When we have the Chair of a committee talking about the sole purpose of a river being to drain water away from farmlands, I wonder whether we need to have an ecological education programme within the Houses of the Oireachtas....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: We asked the Taoiseach about the Greystones media campus. This is a €300 million project, which will be Ireland's largest production facility. It is a joint venture between John Sisk & Son Ltd and the Irish Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF. It was to start opening in 2024. The diggers were on site, cleared a few trees and there has been no activity on site for at least the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: In 2018, promises were made to have a new neurorehabilitation centre for CHO 6 area, that is, east Wicklow. It was to be in Bray and was to come to fruition last year. A team of 13 posts were being pulled together. Funding was available and recruitment was to commence. Unfortunately, that is now all on hold because of the moratorium in the HSE. It is possible for this centre to go ahead...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann: expresses concern that: — a humanitarian and public health crisis is intensifying because of the failure of the Government to provide accommodation to asylum seekers; — there are now more than 1,200 international protection applicants without accommodation in Ireland; — hundreds of international protection applicants are...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: So there are 2,000 beds.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Check out the law. It is our responsibility.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: This is a complete misrepresentation.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Stakeknife.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: We are communists.