Results 721-740 of 4,010 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1587. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the need to regulate the packaging, selling and advertising of non-inhalant nicotine products in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1601. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of a 24-hour, 7-days-per-week ambulance service for Arklow and Baltinglass; if this service will be operational in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57184/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of staffing levels at the Arklow primary health centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57185/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1603. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of services that are currently available in the primary health facility in Arklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57186/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1605. To ask the Minister for Health for an update and detailed timeline for the publication of the HSE review of the cariban reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57190/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1607. To ask the Minister for Health for an update and detailed timeline for the licencing of medications (details supplied); when they will be available to patients with a prescription from their GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57192/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1606. To ask the Minister for Health how many patients to date have claimed reimbursement for cariban under the cariban reimbursement scheme which was introduced on 1 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57191/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1608. To ask the Minister for Health how many patients presented at hospital emergency rooms suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum between the period of 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2023 and for the period 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57193/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at hospital emergency rooms suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum between the period of 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2023 and for the period of 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1021/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1691. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the waiting list times for access to MRI scans for children in the public health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1379/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new core funding chart of accounts requirement for the early years sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55875/23]

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I acknowledge and thank Deputies Pringle, Collins and Connolly for this really important motion, and for the previous work they conducted on this in 2018. It was a landmark Act and a game-changer when it comes to Ireland taking seriously our climate actions and where investments go. What I find particularly good about this motion is that the Independent group have done what should actually...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 712. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the previously funded programme under a waiting list initiative, ‘More Than Words’, considered to be an efficient and effective outsourcing of clinical specialist skills, in the context of the disability teams inability to provide timely intervention to children, who in Wicklow...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have been contacted by a number of constituents in Wicklow who are unable to access GP services. They are unable to register or have lengthy waits for appointments. I did a survey in Wicklow and 70% of the GP surgeries I contacted in the area are not accepting new patients. One GP in Arklow has more than 200 people on the waiting list. Surely the fundamental principle of a health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister for the presentation. I will raise the issue of data centres. Our position is that the Government has not been strategic enough in how they have been managed to date or will be in future. The impact of that is we have not conditioned data centres enough to play a role that is in any way sustainable in our economy or society. There has been an open door for them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Okay-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Okay. Can I come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I do not think that is correct. We have seen many data centres getting permission and being built. I think it has been relatively easy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: We can disagree on that. The Minister said they are trying to get the balance right but I would argue that they are not getting the balance right. He talked about the Government statement on the role of data centres but there are no definitive measures in it. It stated, “The Government has a preference for data centre developments in locations" and “The Government has a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am not painting it as a bad thing. What we are saying is that-----