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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of enforcement actions taken under section 40 of the Wildlife Acts over the past ten years, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63080/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the hen harrier threat response plan will be published; the process it will then undergo; the full timeline for the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63081/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the curlew task force recommendations; the funding being made available in 2022 to address the concerning decline of the species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63082/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made with the establishment of the National Parks and Wildlife Service's working to examine the hunting of birds of conservation concern; the actions that will be considered as part of the working group; the timeline for work to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63083/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the precautionary measures he will put in place as an interim management tool to ensure that sufficient protections are offered to bird species of conservation concern that are currently listed on the National Parks and Wildlife Service's open season order, and in advance of the finalisation of the working group on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that are in place to ensure that sites of high maritime biodiversity potential are protected from overdevelopment and impact under the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the publication of the report of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2403/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent building will be secured for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2401/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2402/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if extra staffing and resources will be put in place to deal with the backlog of birth, death and marriage restrictions in County Wicklow in view of other counties receiving extra staffing and resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63423/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the publication of the annual report for 2021 submitted by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection on 30 June 2021; the timeline for the publication of the report on illegal adoptions which was submitted to the Government on 30 September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1878. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a full-time coordinator for the Bray local drugs and alcohol task force which has been without a coordinator for three and a half years out of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2215/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of landowners found to have been ineligible for funding under an area-based scheme in each of the past ten years due to an incidence of illegal burning in the previous period by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1953. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections, ground and satellite, undertaken by his Department to identify illegal burns by county; the number of illegal burns successfully identified as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times land declared as eligible on a basic payment scheme application was identified as having been burned during the closed season; the number of successful appeals made against this; the criteria by which an appeal is judged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63088/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank our guests for attending the meeting. My first question is for Mr. Ó Raghallaigh and it relates to the annual review of the climate action committee. That review mentions that the national climate action delivery board, the role of which is to hold Departments and public bodies accountable for the delivery of their actions, did not meet at all in 2020, despite a commitment to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I meant to address it to Mr. Mahon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The board only met once in 2020 and 2021. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Did that have anything to do with the failure to meet our targets under the 2019 action plan? Quite a number of targets were missed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: On the 90,000 vacant houses, has Mr. Lemass a target for the number he would like to see retrofitted?