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Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Part of the privilege of being in government is that the Minister of State can intervene. She can change the law, empower regulators and force supermarkets to publish their profits. The big question the Minister of State needs to answer today is why the Government has done none of these things. Why is the Cabinet acting like bystanders, narrating a problem instead of doing anything? I...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Here are the pure, basic facts. Grocery prices have gone up 36% since 2021. That is an additional €3,000 on an average family grocery shop. It is an incredible increase and it is putting huge pressure on families. Some 71% of Irish families say they are very concerned about food prices and we have seen that four in ten parents skip meals so their children can eat. That is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I raise a commitment and a promise that was made by the former Minister for Health to cancer groups across Wicklow last October. The former Minister promised funding for a number of cancer care groups, namely, Purple House Cancer Support, Arklow Cancer Support, Greystones Cancer Support, Wicklow Cancer Support, Rathdrum Cancer Support, Roundwood Cancer Support and West Wicklow Cancer...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (8 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 606. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current immigration status of a person (details supplied); when their application for the spouse of Irish national visa will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37077/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome this Bill and acknowledge the fact that the Minister has progressed this very quickly in her position. My colleagues will go into more detail about the specifics of the Bill, but I will just use these few minutes to ask that when the Government is looking at this redress scheme it learns from previous redress schemes and the mistakes we have made in the past. Oftentimes our...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this motion forward and I welcome everyone in the Gallery. Here we go again. At what stage will we provide women with the support, healthcare, care and attention that they deserve? We are in a situation where we are failing a generation of women all over again. One in ten women suffer from endo. We are sending them overseas. We are ignoring their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is rubbish.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Government has achieved something no one previously thought possible when it comes to climate. Last year, our forests released more carbon than they stored. That is according to the Climate Change Advisory Council. The Government has turned our forests into carbon emitters. Its record is unbelievably bad. It is so bad that it is hard to fathom. The Government has no plan to remedy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: -----what his climate-sceptic Government will do to deal with this issue?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: What is a bizarre assertion?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is not my assertion; it is the assertion of the Climate Change Advisory Council. It is science.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Forestry is a carbon emitter.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Taoiseach needs to get serious. He needs to listen to the science.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: We are emitting carbon.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Natural Gas Grid (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 15. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the Government’s position on commercial liquid natural gas facilities in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39906/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Natural Gas Grid (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will develop a policy statement banning the development of any commercial liquid natural gas facilities in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39907/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Natural Gas Grid (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 17. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he believes there would be a business case for a State-led liquid natural gas facility in the event that a commercial facility was also operating in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39908/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the review of Ireland’s financial services tax regime, as encouraged by the Commission on Taxation and Welfare and plans to review the deemed disposal tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39804/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students of the upcoming educational psychology course in Maynooth University will undertake their placements in health and social care settings; and, if not where exactly will they be undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39738/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the course accreditation for the upcoming educational psychology course in Maynooth University will be amended to reflect concerns over graduates being limited to careers in the NEPS; if such an amendment will be informed by a proper consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39739/25]