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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Taoiseach stated that climate change was a profound challenge that would require all of our efforts to address it. I agree. Akin to how we dealt with Covid, it is a fundamental societal challenge. When we were debating and dealing with Covid, we followed the scientists' lead and the evidence. At the committee dealing with carbon budgets in recent months, the independent scientists...

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.

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: 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.

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: One of my questions relates to a comment in the Minister of State's opening statement. My second question is on the national just transition fund.

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...