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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the hen harrier threat response plan will be published; the process it will then undergo; the full timeline for the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63081/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the curlew task force recommendations; the funding being made available in 2022 to address the concerning decline of the species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63082/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made with the establishment of the National Parks and Wildlife Service's working to examine the hunting of birds of conservation concern; the actions that will be considered as part of the working group; the timeline for work to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63083/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the precautionary measures he will put in place as an interim management tool to ensure that sufficient protections are offered to bird species of conservation concern that are currently listed on the National Parks and Wildlife Service's open season order, and in advance of the finalisation of the working group on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that are in place to ensure that sites of high maritime biodiversity potential are protected from overdevelopment and impact under the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the publication of the report of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2403/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (20 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. I know this is not her area, but I acknowledge that the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is at an important meeting and could not make it. I want to raise the issue of the funding for the N11-M11 scheme. It was a project that was being funded under the Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, allocation announced recently. It was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (20 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am still confused because the Minister of State has said that the projects under TII are being allocated to align with the Government commitment to a 2:1 ratio of funding on new public transport and new roads. She also said that the upgrade is still included in a list of projects to be progressed under the NDP. I am not sure whether it means that project will still go ahead and it did not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent building will be secured for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2401/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2402/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if extra staffing and resources will be put in place to deal with the backlog of birth, death and marriage restrictions in County Wicklow in view of other counties receiving extra staffing and resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63423/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the publication of the annual report for 2021 submitted by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection on 30 June 2021; the timeline for the publication of the report on illegal adoptions which was submitted to the Government on 30 September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1878. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a full-time coordinator for the Bray local drugs and alcohol task force which has been without a coordinator for three and a half years out of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2215/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of landowners found to have been ineligible for funding under an area-based scheme in each of the past ten years due to an incidence of illegal burning in the previous period by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1953. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections, ground and satellite, undertaken by his Department to identify illegal burns by county; the number of illegal burns successfully identified as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times land declared as eligible on a basic payment scheme application was identified as having been burned during the closed season; the number of successful appeals made against this; the criteria by which an appeal is judged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63088/21]

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I extend my sympathy to the family of Ashling Murphy and everyone who loved her, and many did, as well as to the other women who have suffered from domestic or gender-based violence, who have died from it or who have lived intolerable lives because of the impact of violence against them. Like everyone else in the country, I have had time over the past couple of weeks to reflect on the type...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will raise the issue of the €100 electricity credit payment, which I understand is coming before the Dáil next week. Like many others, I share the concerns about it not being a targeted approach. I understand the administrative burden related to means testing something like that, but I cannot understand why this Government will also give 62,000 holiday homeowners that credit....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Rights of the Child in respect of Domestic and International Surrogacy: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank everyone for speaking to us and especially Ms Merrigan, Ms Cohalan and Mr. Kenny Moore for being such fantastic advocates for their children and their families. There has been a huge amount of information, with much to take in and digest and I am relatively new to this issue. I have a couple of questions. The first relates to what Professor O'Mahony was talking about, namely,...