Results 101-120 of 4,194 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (29 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Tánaiste. France is one of the leading countries in opposition to this. It has said it does not want to see European farmers being used as an adjustment tool for trade. Similar to the Tánaiste, they question the environmental concerns about the deforestation of the Amazon and the weaker agricultural standards in Mercosur countries. Poland is backing France in a...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (29 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: If it is split and trade is dealt with separately, my understanding is that it will cause us concerns. Regarding European partners, has the Tánaiste had any conversations with the Netherlands and Italy? My understanding is that their framing of this is softening. Is the Tánaiste or is the State also trying to have conversations to get them back to a position where they are...
- Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome the Minister of State's indication that he is open to reviewing the Arterial Drainage Act. We have heard a lot this afternoon about the financial, emotional and social cost of flooding. When flooding hits people's homes, businesses or land, it is very difficult. Aside from climate change and a changing weather regime, one of the reasons we experience such large and problematic...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Government is going backwards when it comes to climate action. The EPA report today states that even if every one of the Government's plans and policies was implemented, this would only meet 23% of our emissions target reductions. We are meant to be meeting 51%. It is clear that the Government is not doing enough. The Government may think it is doing a good job on climate and it may...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: You are standing back and closing your eyes.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Taoiseach needs to meet them.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is the Government that needs to take the action.
- Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is really hard to find the right words to say about Gaza now. Week after week, month after month, we have seen the most awful and horrific actions and destruction happening in Gaza and it is just getting worse and worse. To try to reduce it to a three-minute speaking slot is impossible. How can we honour those dead and how can we express our outrage at what is happening on the floor of...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans being made to install a solar farm on Bord na Móna lands that have hosted breeding common cranes in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27552/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the environmental considerations that were taken into account when planning to install a solar farm on Bord na Móna lands that have hosted breeding common cranes in recent years; if an environmental impact study was undertaken to ascertain the impact of such a development on this rare breeding pair; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to share the exact location of planned, and discussed, solar farms on Bord na Móna land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27554/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected capacity of the planned solar farm on Bord na Móna land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27555/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for any planned, and discussed, solar farms on Bord na Móna land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27556/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered identifying the site that is currently home to breeding common cranes (Bord na Móna land) as a special protection area in light of the presence, and successful breeding, of this rare indigenous species in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27558/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what the consideration price for the land sold in Greystones, for the purposes of the development of the Greystones media campus, was exactly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27224/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (27 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protections that exist in legislation, both national and EU, for common cranes, if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27557/25]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (22 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is low, Minister of State.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (22 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is an incredibly disappointing response. It is also very confusing. In one part the Minister of State said it is a private matter between a potential investor and the project concerned and that, essentially, he has nothing to do with the administration of it. In another part, he said the immigrant investor programme was first introduced by the Government and directed us to the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (22 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: It is all written here.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (22 May 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I would like the script for the follow-up response.