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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the development of marine protected areas legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide updated figures on the installation of heat pumps in new homes for Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43061/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 2207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who still have not received any payments under the ACRES scheme for 2023 to date, on a county by county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43058/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a proposed tunnel through Bray Head was included in the cost analysis of double tracking the Rosslare-Dublin rail line; whether more cost-effective alternatives, such as double tracking north and south of Greystones, adding a second platform at Wexford O'Hanrahan station, and increasing speeds in south Wicklow, are being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a comprehensive review of the national list of invasive alien species is needed before adding a single species, such as Cherry Laurel, given that it has been identified as high-impact by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the National Biodiversity Data Centre, Coillte, and the Citizens' Assembly on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the process by which species are added to the national list under the European Union (Invasive Alien Species) Regulations 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50324/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Part 3 (12) of the European Union (Invasive Alien Species) Regulations 2024, which allows the Minister to impose immediate restrictions on invasive alien species not on the EU list if preliminary scientific evidence suggests the species is present or at imminent risk of entering the State, and is likely to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grounds on which Cherry Laurel has not yet been listed as an invasive alien species of national concern, despite repeated recommendations from Ireland's leading environmental and biodiversity bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50326/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will continue to expand the NPWS farm plan schemes in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50327/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (23 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated for new applications in 2026 for the five year National Parks and Wildlife Service farm plan scheme; if that funding will be increased annually from 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50328/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for coming in today. In July 2025, 301,000 households were in arrears for electricity. What is that figure now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That would be great. My understanding is that it went up by 10% between November and July. I want to see if that is continuing, so if the witnesses could find those figures, it would be useful. Energy costs are a huge discussion at the moment because so many people are struggling. We have more than 300,000 households struggling significantly with them and we are seeing a lot of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: What I am seeing at the moment is companies putting up their prices by significant amounts - €200 or €250 on average per year - and are actually blaming infrastructure costs for those prices. I will read from Energia's website. It said it was putting up its prices on 9 October. It said that it worked to minimise the impact on customers and that these price changes are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Energia spoke about regulatory-approved non-energy charges so this has nothing to do with the wholesale market. This is purely the charges that it has to take on board because of the CRU decision. I find it offensive that Energia is actually trying to sell its price increases to customers by essentially blaming improvements in the grid and network security. It is blatantly obvious that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have read what is on the Energia website. Does that concern CRU and will it immediately raise that with Energia because I have serious concerns about what it is stating?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I ask the CRU to do that urgently, come back to me or the committee and let us know. Any of the other companies I have looked at have not been as blatant - this is regulatory and they are saying it is about wholesale prices and have added the other things up. This would appear to just focus on the charges the CRU is putting on, so I ask it to look into that urgently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The ones I have are July. The number is 301,000. That is what is in the Oireachtas-----