Results 61-80 of 793 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore in 'Dáil debates'

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 3 o’clock The Climate Change Advisory Council has warned that Ireland is unlikely to meet the targets of its first carbon budget for the period from 2021 to 2025. That will make meeting our climate targets after 2025 so much more difficult because there will be an awful lot of work and catching-up to do. That means Ireland now faces the prospect of multibillion euro fines under...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The independent experts say-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: In 2018, the BusConnects plan was launched. We knew it would take time to get that into place. Unfortunately, we have not seen the speed of implementation we should see. In my constituency of Wicklow, 58,000 people travel to work every year; only 2,500 of those travel by bus. There is huge potential to get people out of private cars and into buses, if the bus service was there. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Today's report from the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, paints a very bleak picture for renters all across the country. In my constituency of Wicklow, the average monthly rent is a staggering €1,596, which is a 13% increase on last year. Taking a quick look at MyHome.ie to see what is available, there is a one-bedroom property in Wicklow town for €1,800, another one-bedroom...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to represent the Minister for Education. This is my third Topical Issue on this issue, which I have raised a number of times in the Dáil with the Minister. In early October 2023, it became apparent that there was a major shortfall of places for secondary school students in Greystones. At that stage, we thought it could be around...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have to say that I am really disappointed with the response. It has been two months and the Department has yet to ascertain how many children in the area do not have a place. How does it take two months to go through that process? How has the Department not yet figured out where there is capacity in schools in the area? Parents in the area have just two questions. They want to know...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: By March?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Some 280,000 farmers are still awaiting their agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payments. In counties such as Donegal and Cork, more than 3,500 are waiting while in Wicklow it is approximately 350. This is an important funding source for farmers to assist them to transition to more nature-friendly farming models. When will those payments be made? When will every farmer have...

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.