Results 41-60 of 4,379 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: It was more of a comment about the document and the Department's metrics. The output should be the number of salmon returning.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: Subhead C10 is marine spatial planning.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: It is more about the timeline. Does the Minister know when it is coming over or going over?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: What about the MPA legislation and stuff? Is there any timeline, because there was a decision to be made?
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: I am sorry, I was just using that as the headline and trying to squeeze it in there.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: Yes.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: Yes.
- Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised) (16 Jul 2025) Jennifer Whitmore: I assume that will be in the autumn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I apologise for being a bit late. I hope I do not duplicate or go over what was already stated. Recently, the Secretary General of the Department stated that we are having to even think about prioritising what the social need of the demand for energy is and whether it is housing and AI, and we are going to have to think much more about managing this demand. What are the thoughts from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Mr. Marley has no concerns with regard to the growth of data centre demand versus what we will need for housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: As Mr. Tarrant said, PR 6 only factored in the current demand of data centres, so there is no incorporation of any future demand. Therefore, if any more data centres are given planning permission or operating on the grid, that investment will not apply for those. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Currently, the investment only looks to the housing projections and the current contracted data centre usage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Perfect. Does Mr. Tarrant think there is going to be any difficulty and would he like to see a prioritisation? My understanding is that the ability to prioritise energy for social purposes above and beyond data centres was raised. Is it correct that ESB Networks requested the CRU look into that? Did ESB Networks raise the issues? This may not be Mr. Tarrant's unit directly. The CRU...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I understand that ESB Networks is working within the framework that is in place . Is it something it would like put in place so that it does have that latitude to make those decisions if Government policy dictated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I will bring it back to the purpose of this meeting, which is to talk about the climate change targets for 2030, particularly wind energy. I know we spoke briefly about this yesterday. Mr. Cunniffe mentioned that he does not see us meeting the 5 GW target by 2030. How much offshore wind had we 20 years ago?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: What do we have currently?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Those turbines do not have blades on them anymore, so are we actually-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: So 20 years ago, we were producing 25 MW and we are currently producing zero.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: By 2030, how much will we be producing out of the 5 GW?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector (16 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: If Mr. Cunniffe had to put money on it now, how many of those phase one projects would be operational by 2030?