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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Marine Protected Areas (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on marine protected area legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2700/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 865. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payments under the acres scheme; the number of farmers impacted, by county; when the issue will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2691/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on his Department's consultation on surgical artificial insemination in greyhounds; when he will publish the outcomes of that consultation; when a decision will be made as to whether this practice will be allowed to continue in light of ethical and welfare concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied); and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons removed from waiting lists through the outpatient waiting list management protocol in 2022, 2023, and 2024, respectively; the number of those removed that were adults; the number that were children; to provide a further breakdown by hospital, and by type of appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2692/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Last year, in advance of the election, Fianna Fáil made a huge play on prioritising women's health. That included free hormone replacement therapy, which was due to come in in January. This was very welcome at the time but, unfortunately, January came and went, and there is still no free HRT for women. There appears to be no plan for putting it in place. Will the Tánaiste let me...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Despite the Taoiseach repeatedly stating that climate change is the existential crisis of our time, anyone who reads the programme for Government would not get the sense there is urgency on the part of or a grasp by the Government of the scale of the problem we face and how difficult it is going to be to implement changes. The Government seems intent on continuing with business as usual,...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is not about investment; it is about making sure we have the right buses and the contracts are in place. We need to go back to a public system of public transport because then we can control exactly the kind of service is provided.

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I congratulate the Minister and the Minister of State on their new roles. I look forward to working with them over the course of the next term. Over the past couple of weeks, we repeatedly heard the word "unprecedented" being used. Storm Éowyn was unprecedented. To a certain degree, we could never have prepared for a weather event of that extent. However, we could have prepared a...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: What is it called?

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That covers flooding. Does the framework deal with storms?

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is not on the website that has the emergency framework. That document refers to storms in the context of different analyses and stories relating to Storm Ophelia. Background information is provided, but it is not listed there. There is a framework for flooding and others for maritime, rail and nuclear emergencies, but there is none for storms. The document was only updated in 2024....

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: How was it that one week after the storm, emergency hubs were only being set up? The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, was on the radio and said that there had been far too long a delay in getting everything set up. It is clear that there were problems with doing so. The one thing people from the west and the north west who rang radio stations consistently stated was that they felt...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I was on RTÉ radio at the weekend and I heard about the case of a young woman who has a dialysis machine and who was left at home. She had to make her own arrangements to get somewhere in order that she could access electricity to run her machine. We need the HSE and GPs to be involved. GPs indicated that they were not contacted. It is clear that there are major gaps. While the...

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Our current approach to road planning prioritises the supremacy of cars over the safety of pedestrians. It is time to turn this approach on its head. It is no secret that Irish roads were and still are designed with cars in mind, often at the expense of pedestrian safety. In the first seven months of last year, there were 113 road fatalities nationwide and a third of those victims were...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 256. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a timeline on the introduction of the monthly €200-per-child cap on childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5173/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (19 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I congratulate the Minister of State on his new role and wish him the best in it. Public transport is a key challenge facing the country, but there is a lot of potential there to provide a service that will benefit so many communities across the country, and it is a vital service that we need to invest in and make sure operates properly. Key to any really good, successful public service is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (19 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State. On reliability and improvements, there have been some improvements, but when we are still missing services that is going to hugely impact on the people who require that particular bus. For example, the bus from Newcastle has been frequently dropped. If there are improvements in say, the L3 in Delgany, that is not going to make any difference to the person in...

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: When will the penny finally drop? When will the Government get that its approach to the housing crisis not only means it is incapable of solving it, but is making it worse for tens of thousands of people across this country. The numbers tell a grim story. A total of 15,000 people are living in homeless accommodation and 4,500 children are living in single rooms in bed and breakfast...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I again raise the issue of hormone replacement therapy, HRT, which I raised a couple of weeks ago. Free HRT was promised in the most recent budget and was due to begin in January. We have not yet seen it happen. I know the Minister has inherited this problem, but does she have a timeline for when it will be available to women who are experiencing the menopause? There are also issues in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bord na Móna (20 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to clarify his plans to sell Bord na Móna Recycling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7031/25]