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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if she has issued health advisory guidelines to schools related to nicotine pouches in response to calls from an organisation (details supplied); if not, whether she intends to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40018/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: People looking in on this debate today will have their heads in their hands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: They are worried about putting food on their tables and turning their lights on. We have this kind of behaviour going on. I do not think either of the Deputies gets it, to be honest.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: There are economic clouds on the horizon and there is a growing sense of worry about what the future holds. Coupled with that is a lot of frustration with the Government's moralising about this budget. Having splashed the cash in an attempt to buy votes last year, its message has suddenly changed. Now that an election is no longer on the cards, one-off payments are a bad idea. The Social...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: We are doing a party solution.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: In response to the Tánaiste's question, the Social Democrats would absolutely not have spent over €100 million on energy credits for holiday homes. We repeatedly said that. I do not know how anyone could justify that payment. The Tánaiste talks about Wicklow. I will tell him what people and families in Wicklow want. They want the same as families all over the country....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: There are 120 children in Wicklow town who do not have a primary school place for September.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Actually, you have not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I want to again raise issues relating to special education supports for schools in Wicklow. I previously raised them in the context of Topical Issues and parliamentary questions and I wrote to the Minister of State directly on two occasions. Ashford national school has two SNAs. One of them is fully allocated to one student. The schools' request for additional support was rejected and its...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend section 23 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 to include the Sprat Fish, Sprattus sprattus, in the Fifth Schedule of the Act; to prohibit the targeted fishing of sprat except where caught as bycatch; to provide for a moratorium on commercial sprat fishing until sufficient scientific data is available regarding sprat habitats,...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding his Department's drafting of a code of conduct for interacting with basking sharks under the Wildlife Act 1976; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39150/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: ACRES Payments (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 790. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date when an individual (details supplied) will receive his ACRES payments; if he will instruct a Department official to engage with this individual to inform them of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39137/25]

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: My first issue for him relates to staffing of the Marine Institute. We had this discussion when the chair designate and the chief executive appeared before the committee recently. As the Minister of State will be aware, I used to work with the Marine Institute maybe 20 years ago and at the time-----

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I would say they have all moved on now. One of the issues I had back then, as did many of the staff, was that we were all on short-term contracts. It was very much dependent of EU funding. It was a very stressful and precarious position for anyone to be in. I had hoped that would have all changed. Apparently, it has not and there are still a significant number of staff who are on...

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is really welcome. The Minister of State's looking at it is an important step. The EPA provides a similar function where it deals with a number of different agencies. However, my understanding is that it has more permanent funding and resources and the situation there is not as precarious. That might provide a good model to-----

Select Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is great. I thank the Minister of State. Next is a small but important thing. As I mentioned at that meeting, when the Marine Institute moved to the west coast, I think it left a gap on the east coast for marine education services. The Marine Institute has excellent outreach programmes with schools but I think it could do a lot more on the east coast. For example, the Bray...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is great to have them here. I will engage in a little backwards and forwards; first, with Wind Energy Ireland. We have an 80% electricity generation target for renewables. What is the target for offshore for 2030? On the current trajectory, what does Mr. Moran think we will reach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will we have any offshore wind?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Arklow has been decommissioned. I was looking at it the other day; it is being taken apart. We have gone backwards when it comes to offshore wind production because we no longer have that one entity producing.