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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: As we are limited on time, I am moving back to the issue of barriers. When we hear the statistics about the numbers of returning salmon, it is awful and horrific. It is similar with eels. The numbers returning now are 8% of what we would have seen in the seventies. They are really at a critical point. The biggest thing we can do is remediation and carry out the removal of barriers to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is really positive. It is absolutely where we need to go and it is a long-term programme. It does take a long time to get these things done; to get them through the planning system and get the works are being done at the right time and so on. On the ESB, Ardnacrusha and the like, there are conditions that could be put in place and things they could do to help mitigate in the absence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Some 21% of the total run of eels going through Ardnacrusha die. That is an ESB statistic, and it has been said that it is an understatement. Even if it is 21%, that is a huge number for a critically endangered species. Does the IFI have the authority to tell the ESB that it must stop the turbines or introduce similar measures? We have the facts. We know how many are going through and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Would the IFI welcome if its statutory responsibility from the perspective of the protection of these critically endangered fish species were to take into account the ESB electricity infrastructure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentation and all the work they did in the assembly. It is clear they are incredibly passionate about this issue and it is great to see that passion expressed in this document. When they got involved initially, they had to apply and, obviously, biodiversity loss was something in which they were all interested. Is it something they were...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will hone in on one element, namely, the State-led liquified natural gas, LNG, storage capacity. How will the Minister ensure that the relevant entity and its infrastructure will be fully controlled by the State? My understanding is that it is expected that it could be along the lines of a public private partnership, PPP. We have seen with PPPs across the country that while the intention...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: If GNI is being tasked with the investigation and examination of this, and I assume the operation of it as well, does the Minister have confidence that it gets the whole area of climate? GNI was giving connections for islanded data centres, which is completely in non-compliance with our climate obligations. The Minister wrote to GNI last year and asked it to stop that. The fact is that he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the energy security review; how it will inform Government policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50262/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Can I have an update on the energy security review and how it will inform Government policy? I understand that a similar question may have been dealt with earlier, but we will delve into the matter a little more.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: My fear is that there is a long process. We are talking about another consultation and a review, which will feed into sectoral plans, and I do not know when that will happen. By the time we get around to embedding nature-based solution thinking into our policies, it will be too late. We will have already installed a new generation of infrastructure that might not do what we need it to do....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 4. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the national adaptation plan, including when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50260/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Minister provide an update on the national adaptation plan and indicate when it will be published? Adaptation is coming to the fore at the moment as we see the damage being caused by storms, but it is much broader in its scope than the need to address that issue.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The current framework was published in 2018, since when our understanding of the impacts of climate change has changed. The speed at which those impacts are affecting us has changed, as has Government policy. The sectoral adaptation plans produced under the NAF are not necessarily reflective, I hope, of current Government policy. For example, the flood management sectoral plan includes a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is concerned about the high failure rate of retrofits following inspection; the steps he is taking to address this high rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50261/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 33. 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. [50263/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: This is a response to Deputy Cairns.

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Some 190 healthcare workers, 102 aid workers, 42 journalists, 1,200 Israelis, 240 Israeli hostages and more than 11,000 Palestinians and 4,650 Palestinian children have been killed in a mere 40 days. It is time to shout “Stop”. This has to stop now. There is a responsibility on each of us to do whatever is within our power to make sure that this stops. Whether that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I did not expect to be first up. The Cathaoirleach has taken me by surprise. My first question is to Ms Donnelly in relation to a note in her submission. She raises many concerns in relation to progress being made when it comes to renewable energy and she highlights risks to meeting the targets as a result of that. She also says that she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: When Ms Donnelly says it is not in short supply is she talking about just wind?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I suppose we have to translate that into a usable energy source and in order to do that we must have construction workers, developers and the infrastructure, and that is limited. Where that is limited, that is the limiting factor. If we have 100 workers and they can produce ten wind farms, are we better off saying we do not want those ten wind farms to be used for growth in data centre...