Results 821-840 of 4,194 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore
- 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: The questions I will ask are not necessarily those I thought I would ask coming to the meeting. What has become really clear and is incredibly worrying is that we have a Government Minister saying that this was not a decision of the Government but a decision of the regulator and we have the regulator saying that this was not a decision of the regulator but a decision of Government. That is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am conscious of the time. The Minister of State would not see this as an instruction. He would see it as a suggestion rather than a direction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is a request, okay. I ask the CRU to answer that too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is a Government request rather than a Government directive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I will put the same question to the CRU.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I know it is very difficult. That is why I framed my question as I did. If this were to happen today, would the CRU see it as a directive? If the CRU were to receive this letter, would it feel it had a choice other than to do what was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: Could I just make a very quick point?