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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is not generating. As a result, we have no electricity being generated offshore and it is unlikely we will have any by 2030.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is very worrying. Can anything be done to expedite the relevant projects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: One of the things that has been raised with me by those in the industry is that there is not any pre-planning consultation with national parks. As a result, when An Bord Pleanála or An Coimisiún Pleanála come back, they look for information that those to whom I refer believe could have built into their planning applications head of time. They see that as quite a constraint....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am not sure there are many different stakeholder groups. Is there any stakeholder group that involves MARA, An Bord Pleanála, Wind Energy Ireland, the national parks and the State agencies and at which issues can be raised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is very worrying that we will have zero wind energy from offshore by the 2030 deadline, at which point we will be at risk of €26 billion in fines for not meeting our climate targets. We need to push for better co-ordination and resourcing. I know certain entities are struggling with that. All three groups might be able to respond on this. The marine protected areas legislation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Mr. McCabe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Mr. Moran. I have many concerns about moving from one process to another, particularly when it was so close to being delivered or potentially delivered. Folding it in with another process that is, in itself, quite complex, especially from a consultation perspective, as was said, and loading another layer of consultation and objectives on that is quite worrying. Is MARA operating...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am very familiar with that area. I am from there. It is great to see. Wexford has such a strong maritime history. My family, going back many generations, worked on the sea. It is great to see the authority down at the bottom of Fishers Row. Maybe if I am down there someday I will pop in. I am just wondering from a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Can I just ask about timelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is grand.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: We will start with B.14, the essential retrofit loan scheme. How many loans have been issued over the past year under that scheme?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: Residential.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: I know €3 million is not much in the grand scheme of things, but how does it cost €3 million to run that programme when it is ultimately just pointing people to different banks?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: How many staff work in that area?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: That would be great.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: On the retrofit programmes, the priority of those is decarbonisation. I think there is a missed opportunity to have more of a focus on energy poverty alongside that element. Many people who come to my office are in or at risk of energy poverty and their homes are very old. They cannot get their homes retrofitted through the schemes. I have a long list of difficulties. To be fair, the...