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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will be moving it.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Minister elaborate on the rationale as to why a reference to social and economic exclusion cannot be included? In order to define how people are vulnerable, we need to acknowledge there will be social and economic vulnerabilities globally and it will be the poorest people who are most impacted in that regard. If the Minister is not open to taking the more definitive amendments, he...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move amendment No. 15: In page 6, to delete lines 26 to 30 and substitute the following: "'climate justice' means the requirement that decisions and actions taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the effects of climate change shall, in so far as it is practicable to do so, safeguard the rights of persons vulnerable to social and economic exclusion and endeavour to...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I also think this is one of the most important conversations on the Bill we will have. The reality is that climate issues are not just about the environment. They are part of a much broader issue and we cannot separate them out. If we start dealing with environmental or climate issues separately to the economy, inequality and people's living standards we will not achieve what we need to...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister is arguing that just transition is a difficult concept to define. However, the Scottish Government has defined it. There are a number of examples where other, similar countries have embedded it in their legislation. The unions have come together and agreed a concept and principles, as have community organisations. There is an onus on the Minister to reflect that in this Bill....

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: Like my colleagues, I would ask that the Minister take all these amendments back and consider which one he is comfortable with. We are all saying the same thing. I saw earlier that one of the civil society groups wants the UNFCCC commitment mentioned in the Bill. Perhaps that is something the Minister can take on board. My amendment is a simple addition, which emphasises that it will be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has conducted a risk analysis on the implications that the investor court system as part of CETA will have on current and future environmental legislation in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13250/21]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move amendment No. 22: In page 6, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “ ‘just transition’ means a transition that ensures the economic, environmental and social consequences of the ecological transformation of economies and societies are managed in ways that maximise opportunities of decent work for all, reduce inequalities, promote social justice,...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move amendment No. 25: In page 7, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “ ‘nature based solutions’ means locally adapted, resource-efficient, cost-effective and systemic interventions supported by nature, which simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits incorporating more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will not be moving amendment No. 32.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have written to the Ceann Comhairle, but it was the Chairman who ruled the amendment out of order. How can moving the year from 2050 to 2045 require a money message?

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am absolutely disgusted that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, has left the debate this morning. He has come up with a speech that has all the right words in it, and yet he will not be in the Chamber to listen to women's voices and women's opinions on this matter. I am really annoyed that the Minister has left the debate and not given us the respect of listening to what we have to say on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (2 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide information in relation to following flood relief scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29987/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (2 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the length and percentage of the flood relief walls in the Waterford flood relief scheme that are made of glass panelling as portrayed in images (details supplied); the costings for glass panels for the scheme; and the cost for each of the scheme. [29988/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships (2 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a requirement to include a mechanism with PPPs obliging county councils to review and audit aspects of an agreement at a certain time once they have entered these arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29989/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens' Assembly (2 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the citizens’ assembly on biodiversity will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29990/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: Today the Government published the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. It is also Global Day for Parents. That is ironic because despite the €915 million being allocated in the economic plan there does not appear to be a single additional cent set aside for investment in early years and childcare. That is despite childcare being a fundamental foundation for the economy and for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: There is no additional money in the budget for childcare.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts he is taking to address the long waiting list for SEAI warmer homes grant; the extent which Covid-19 has impacted on the waiting list for retrofitting of homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29430/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the recent conclusion of the Fiscal Advisory Council that climate action in Ireland will require a fundamental reorientation of the way the economy operates incurring heavy claims on Government resources and requiring careful planning; the costings that have been carried out in relation to the...