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Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank and acknowledge Sinn Féin for bringing forward this important motion. We have heard a lot today about the current situation and how the Covid crisis and fuel poverty are impacting on people in a very real way. I would like to talk about our future in regard to fuel poverty. Unfortunately, the Covid pandemic is going to be just one of the crises we face. We are also going to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the bodies and organisations that will be consulted in the establishment of a deposit and return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5488/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 20 January 2021, if he will state his explicit commitment to legislate for a ban on oil and gas exploration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5489/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding in budget 2021 which has been set aside for the establishment and resourcing of the national retrofit delivery office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 20 January 2021, if he will provide the quarter in 2021 the wildlife crime unit will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline Ireland’s explicit commitment to meet the target for both the protection of 30% of land and 30% of marine areas; if he will further outline Ireland’s commitment to strict protections for both 10% of land and 10% of marine areas; the strict protections it will entail; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare workers who are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment on a weekly basis from 21 December 2020 to 25 January 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5082/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to the circumstances regarding ECCE in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the role of childcare committees; if it is within their remit to control and put in place an upper limit on the number of childcare places in a particular area to ensure the viability of existing providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (3 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the restrictions in place on the importation of honeybees; if there is a licensing regime; if his Department monitors the level of compliance; the disease controls in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5796/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (28 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will call for the immediate release of any hares currently in captivity in view of the fact that coursing meetings are not permitted to take place during current Covid-19 restrictions and in view of the animal welfare issues related to holding wild animals in captivity; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Legal Cases (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to support or contest the legal proceedings brought by six Portuguese young persons against Ireland and 32 other countries in the European Court of Human Rights (details supplied) alleging that insufficient climate action breaches their human rights; the timeline for the Government's reply to those...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being put in place to proactively manage new populations of invasive ring-necked parakeets sighted in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3712/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a resolution will be found in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4083/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a decision will be made regarding the reopening of crèches in February 2021 taking into account the fact that staff have to have contingency measures planned in advance of any reopening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3540/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider reducing the frequency of presentations required by those facing deportation to immigration services on a monthly or bimonthly basis in view of the decision by the Taoiseach not to deport persons during Covid-19 other than for national security issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3541/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Water and Sewerage Schemes (27 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been allocated for a nationwide wastewater surveillance programme to monitor the prevalence of Covid-19, as endorsed by NPHET in November 2020; when he expects the programme to be fully rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3542/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: What measures does the Government intend to take to ensure that the pharmaceutical companies involved in the mother and baby home vaccine trials, and the religious orders that were so centrally involved in running the institutions, will contribute appropriately to redress for the survivors? Does the Government intend for those measures to be mandatory?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: What about the pharmaceutical companies?

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: Last week our radio waves and newspapers were flooded with life stories and lived experiences of the survivors of the mother and baby homes and their accounts of loss and trauma, sadness and anger. The stories were very difficult to listen to and I cannot even begin to imagine what it was like to have lived and be still living through it. I hope that telling those stories helped even a...