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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Of course, the Paris Agreement obliges us to act with a precautionary approach. If we are not 100% sure, we need to take it into account and have a sort of risk-averse approach. We obviously need to have those discussions. Perhaps that is something the committee needs to look at. Our obligations under the Paris Agreement would mean that we would have to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I want to go back to the original issue for today and the change in the methodology. When we raised this with the chair of the CCAC when she was last before the committee, she said that the change in the methodology was chosen because the CCAC was adopting newer techniques being used by the IPCC and that a more comprehensive, structured approach that is being used. I would be interested in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Professor Daly. I have to rush to the Chamber but I want to make the point that this is a very technical conversation we are having and we are not climate scientists. It is not something we will get resolved and we will need to be led by scientists and the evidence on this, so I fully support the call for this to go back. The peer review by the IPCC, particularly if the Climate...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the land use review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify recent statements he has made regarding progress on climate targets in light of the 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024, as reported recently by the EPA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46038/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline his proposed policy response to the recently reported 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46039/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 146. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024 as reported by the EPA recently renders Ireland at risk of non-compliance with the legally binding sectoral ceilings under the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46040/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has engaged with or met the EPA following their recent report of a 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46041/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on his Department’s identification of opportunities for additional peatlands for enhanced rehabilitation, as committed to in the National Peatlands Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on his Department’s assessment of the contributing factors that led to three major peatland failures in 2020, as committed to in the National Peatlands Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46046/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the scoping study report on mapping peat depth and carbon storage as committed to in the National Peatlands Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline how a State-led FSRU would be compliant with the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 152. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline and cost for the development of the State-led strategic gas emergency reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 153. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when his Department expects to finalise policy and legislation on the operation of a State-led strategic emergency gas reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide figures on the uptake of the low-cost loan scheme for 2025 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46051/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide updated figures on the installation of solar panels in homes, new and retrofitted, to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 156. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide updated figures on the homes retrofitted to B2 or above, with a year-by-year breakdown to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46053/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 157. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the status of the Marine Protected Areas Legislation and whether a decision has been made to retain it as stand-alone legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 158. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish the work done by his Department to date on the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 393. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations in place that set the national standards for pedestrian crossings; if any of these standards could preclude the design of pedestrian crossings whereby crossings are painted in the pride colours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46834/25]