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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: In his opening statement the Minister of State said, "These changes better reflect the Department’s statement of strategy, Le Chéile 23, which sets out our vision for the three-year period from 2021 to 2023." That strategy has been in place since 2021. What elements of the work that has been undertaken so far were not reflective of that vision? It was an interesting comment to...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I imagine that if a strategy was set up in 2021, all the actions of the Department would align with it and not that the strategy would be updated as the Department goes through it.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: It related to the €11 million specified for national just transition.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a progress report on the development of legislation to identify, designate and manage marine protected areas in the marine area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6618/22]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: It was on whether the absence of a just transition commissioner will be problematic for spending. Is that role required in order to continue to consult with stakeholders? Have the programmes already been set in train as such and it is now just a matter of implementing them, which is what the €11 million is for? The Department has a programme that is continuing in the absence of a...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: In regard to subhead B4 on the retrofit programme, everyone is waiting to hear and really hoping for an ambitious programme to be announced this afternoon, and I know there may be some instances where the Minister of State cannot go into much detail. I wonder about the low-cost loans scheme. One of the risks is that there will be a significant number of people who will not be in a position...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Essentially, what will be available for those households that do not meet the eligibility criteria under the warmer homes programme but will not have the money upfront to pay and will need to get a low-cost loan?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have a specific question in regard to subhead C7 on landfill remediation. The Minister of State specified that Kerdiffstown in County Kildare is programmed to get €14 million. A similar dump in Wicklow, Whitestown dump, is being remediated at the moment. Has any budget been allocated for that?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Is it possible to talk to the officials on this specifically?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Chairman.

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...

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

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

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]

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Feel free.

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...

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]