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Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I looked through the document. When you read it, it all sounds very worthy as did the document before it and many other documents this Government and previous governments have produced. These are all nice, shiny, glossy documents that have very good sounding objectives and visions in place. Take, for example, national policy objective 12. It reads: “Ensure the creation of...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: We do not have sufficient, affordable and proper public transport. We do not have investment in the infrastructure we need. Unfortunately, I do not have much faith that the Minister will be able to deliver the communities we need.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (30 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his role and responsibility in relation to Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21371/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (30 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the Environmental Protection Agency's 2025 Coastal Lagoons Report outlining the significant degradation of Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford, which is a special protection area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21372/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (30 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will convene a stakeholder group including, but not limited to, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Wexford County Council, local landowners and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a remediation plan for Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21373/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (30 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department intends to take to address the widely reported decline of Lady's Island Lake, County Wexford; the way in which he intends to bring it back, in compliance with the EU Habitats Directive and the Water Framework Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Regulations (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 318. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on work done to date to prescribe regulations for exempted usages as set out in section 114 of the Maritime Area Planning Act 2021; whether he envisages such regulations to require public consultation; when he expects those regulations to be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Regulations (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 319. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on work done to date to prescribe regulations for emergency works as set out in section 98(4) of the Maritime Area Planning Act 2021; whether he envisages such regulations to require public consultation; when he expects those regulations to be complete; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Rights of Way (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 427. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the powers local authorities have to close a right of way; the processes and procedures an authority seeking to close a right of way must go through, that is, the erection of a notice prior to closure, the invitation of submissions, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 657. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent annually on fortnightly pension detail postage, in the public sector, from 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20273/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Policies (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 658. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans in place to digitalise the system of fortnightly pension detail postage in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20274/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the number of students enrolled in various primary and post-primary schools (details supplied), and for a class-by-class breakdown of numbers for each, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Information (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if publicly funded national schools are included in the Freedom of Information Act 2014; if not, the basis on which they are exempt; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19671/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 926. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if parents must provide a school with an assessment of needs report in order to access school a place for their child in a public primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 971. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the final decision was made to change this year's Leaving Certificate's grade inflation to 5.5%; the way this decision was communicated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 970. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an assessment of need can be requested by a school as a requirement for a school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the purchase of lands at the Glen of the Downs in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19011/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 2206. To ask the Minister for Health if a system is in place that enables women to access free HRT by only paying the dispensing fee to the pharmacist and not paying for the medication itself; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 2207. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the roll-out of the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Waiting Lists (29 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 2241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list in each county for occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and psychology, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19843/25]