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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the available data on the number of non-principle private residencies in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of extra staff that have been allocated for the passport office out of the 300 committed to in November 2021 to deal with the backlog of passport applications and anticipated increase in demand ahead of the summer months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4262/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she anticipates that schools will see a corresponding easing of measures that have been put in place over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4444/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that currently have HEPA filters in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4512/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the planning application for a school build (details supplied) will be lodged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional temporary accommodation to meet the September 2022 needs of a school (details supplied) [4853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the expansion to a double stream school for a national school (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [4854/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 566. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the eligibility for children to avail of early childhood care and education, ECCE, is capped at age five years and six months old; the reason that children who surpass this age while in the programme are ruled out for the year entirely; if his attention has been drawn to the financial burden on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a transitional fund available for child care facilities from May to August 2022; if so, if a child care provider can increase fees during this time; when further information will be provided to facilities and parents of the new funding model due to commence in September 2022; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of education and training opportunities offered under the SOLAS green skills action programme due to be completed by the fourth quarter in 2022 as set out in the climate action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4311/22]

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]

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....

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...

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...

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...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: -----the Taoiseach’s comments earlier about the cross-party approach to gender-based violence, his commitment to the strategy and his recognition that a cultural shift is required in this country. As one of the other Deputies mentioned, there are immediate things that can happen and that need to happen. A report at the end of last year from the Rape Crisis Network Ireland stated that...