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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has worked on clearing Covid-19-related backlogs in apprenticeship as part of climate action No. 222 in the climate action plan’s annex of actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 829. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Teagasc as a State body is answerable to him as laid out in the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act 1988; if Teagasc is in fact a charity run by its trustees answerable to the Charities Regulator as laid out in the Charities Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4256/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts his Department is taking to protect the endangered old Irish goat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4329/22]

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Every family in this country has been touched in one way or another by cancer. It is a diagnosis that can send a person and their family into a state of shock, grief and despair. It is often the start of a very long and difficult journey for everybody involved. However, there is a second shock which people never expect and which comes as a complete bombshell to them and that is the shock...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Feel free.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is still actively considering a site (details supplied) for a new school build; if a decision has been made to look at a different site; if so, when that decision was made; if stakeholders have been notified of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a master-plan was completed for a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5502/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I did not realise this question would be coming up.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I would be pleased if the Minister would provide a response to that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: In 2018 the Tánaiste told the European Parliament that Ireland was a climate laggard and promised to do much more to protect the environment. Four years later, the European Commission is not very impressed with the Government's progress. A director in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment, Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea, recently gave a speech in which he did not just...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The increase in the number of judicial reviews in this country coincides completely with the introduction of the strategic housing development, SHD, planning process. That is because SHDs bypass local democracy, so there was not an opportunity for people to put in planning objections to local councils. They only had the opportunity to raise objections with An Bord Pleanála. If that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the specific amount of funding provided to support domestic violence services as part of Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Poverty (3 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to establish a dedicated child poverty unit in his Department to combat child poverty in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5415/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The motion on the carbon budgets is going through without debate. There should be a debate on that. The entire discussion about the recommendations was conducted in private and there was no opportunity for the committee to input into the body of that report. We were not given an opportunity to do so, which I believe is wrong. There was no time for a minority report to be developed by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: -----given by the independent scientists around the carbon budgets. I ask that this motion be debated in the Dáil this week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Not-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: This is not about delaying. This is about giving the committee an opportunity to participate in the process and have its voice-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Committee members did not have an opportunity to have an input into the body of the report.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: On average, eight women every day are turned away when they seek a space in a refuge. Meanwhile, demand for services has increased by up to 200% during the pandemic. I do not know if the Taoiseach saw RTÉ's "Prime Time Investigates" report last night, but it is harrowing what these women and children have to go through. The Social Democrats have consistently called for the number of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Those nine counties will get refuge spaces.