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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Just one point. I think our problem is we are continually focusing on consumers and educating them instead of putting the onus on the producers to do what they should be doing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I want to raise the issue of the neurological rehabilitation centre that is planned for Bray. This was first promised in 2018. In July of 2023, a team of 13 specialists were identified. The recruitment process was to start for them and then it all came to a stall because of the recruitment freeze. If a derogation is applied to that centre, those jobs and positions can be filled. I...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Ombudsman for Children has issued a report this week to highlight the many ways in which children are being failed in this country. The report states that children are competing for attention at a time of crisis in many areas. Dental health is one of those areas where children are being forgotten so I want to focus on children in this contribution. We have 104,000 children on a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of dentists in Wicklow declining to see patients on medical cards (details supplied); what the obligation is to provide dental practices when it comes to medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23165/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (22 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that subsistence paid to further education and training staff working as external authenticators is subject to tax, that tax does not apply to the same subsistence paid to staff engaged directly by the State Examinations Commission; the reason for the disparity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23143/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister. That was four pages of text but there was not a great amount of information in it. In light of the EPA report and the publication of its analysis, the elephant in the room today is the fact that the Government is not going to meet its climate targets. It is not going to meet the climate targets under the NECP or those relating to the Act. The EPA's analysis was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: According to the climate action plan and what the EPA is saying, the Government will not do it because the policies are insufficient.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Minister-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The climate action plan contains policies and projects that will result in a reduction of 29%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Is the Minister saying those actions are not in the climate action plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: So, essentially-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: No, that is enough examples, thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: In that regard, what the EPA is saying is that it has not modelled everything because the Government has not actually set down enough information or given the supporting policies for it. One of the measures the EPA talks about is the increases in petrol and diesel about which the Minister spoke. However, that information has not been put down. That was not included because there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: It should not be in the plan then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: So, what we need-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Minister, you put stuff in the plan and you implement it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: You do not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: What the Minister has brought into question is whether the EPA analysis is worthwhile. What he is saying-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: He is saying it cannot model these measures.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: We need a debate on climate targets and how we will deal with our emissions in this Dáil. Today, for the second year in a row, the Environmental Protection Agency has said that even if the Government implements all its policies, it will still meet only 29% of the reductions it is meant to meet, as opposed to the 51% target. What we see from this Government is spin over action. As...