Results 601-620 of 3,983 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: On page 14, the following is stated: “This makes new data centres 'net-zero demand' from a GCS adequacy perspective.”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: It states: This does not constitute a moratorium for data centres but according to the CRU’s direction, EirGrid can ‘determine whether a connection offer can be made within the system stability and reliability needs of the electricity network.’ It also means that any new data centre demand must also bring equivalent capacity with it which would be intended to largely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Would EirGrid see it as part of its responsibility to account for the emissions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Essentially, this again comes back to Government policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: We will have growth in data centre usage because there is still that spare contracted demand allowable to them. If we do not have renewables on board for whatever reason, be it barriers relating to planning, connection or whatever, is there a risk we will not make our targets?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: One of the first things I tabled in this Dáil was a motion drafted by the Social Democrats for the eradication of consistent poverty among children. Unfortunately, the Government rejected it. We have not seen the reduction or eradication of consistent poverty among children that we need. The State of the Nation's Children report for 2023 was published earlier today. Instead of a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: We have not reduced child poverty, it is going up.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: What about qualified child payment?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Thousands more children are living in poverty.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Department is not ahead of its B2 energy rating targets.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the low-interest loans for retrofitting; when an interest rate will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3656/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Minister provide an update on the provision of low-interest loans for retrofitting? It is quite a few years since they were first mooted. When will we see such loans offered and what will the interest rate be?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am really disappointed that we do not seem to have the details of the loan scheme. The Minister launched the scheme two or three years ago. Every time I put in a question on it through the parliamentary system, I am told that information should be available in the following quarter. It seems the same response is being given again today. I acknowledge that progress has been made and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister said this has not been done before. In fact, other countries have given zero-interest loans. Brussels, for example, gives zero-interest loans for retrofitting. That would have actually been a much better solution because it means that retrofitting is going to be something that every household could look at - that there is not that upfront cost to them. That is just a...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I support this amendment and thank Deputy Murphy for tabling it. The way I look at it, if the Minister of State does not do this, he is actually tying the hands of GNI. He is constraining it, limiting it to very commercial activity and operations and not taking other things into consideration. Now is his opportunity. Bringing the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act through was a...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Last week, all Members of the Oireachtas were invited to stand outside the Dáil and read names from a list of people who have been murdered in Gaza since this conflict began. I did not realise the weight of the task until I started reading those names. There was name after name on page after page. The list just seemed to go on forever. The most difficult part was reading out the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Taoiseach said we did not condemn.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Calling it an atrocity is a condemnation and the Taoiseach needs to present facts in this case.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We need to see the plans of the Government on immigration and housing refugees. Each week we are told that they are just being worked on, but we need to see the facts, figures and timelines on this. There are more than 600 IPAS applicants who are currently on our streets who are facing sub-zero temperatures or storm after storm and we need to see the plan...