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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 626. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers that accept under-one-year-olds in Wicklow; the number of under-one-year-olds registered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5569/25]

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Our current approach to road planning prioritises the supremacy of cars over the safety of pedestrians. It is time to turn this approach on its head. It is no secret that Irish roads were and still are designed with cars in mind, often at the expense of pedestrian safety. In the first seven months of last year, there were 113 road fatalities nationwide and a third of those victims were...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 256. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a timeline on the introduction of the monthly €200-per-child cap on childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5173/25]

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I congratulate the Minister and the Minister of State on their new roles. I look forward to working with them over the course of the next term. Over the past couple of weeks, we repeatedly heard the word "unprecedented" being used. Storm Éowyn was unprecedented. To a certain degree, we could never have prepared for a weather event of that extent. However, we could have prepared a...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: What is it called?

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That covers flooding. Does the framework deal with storms?

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is not on the website that has the emergency framework. That document refers to storms in the context of different analyses and stories relating to Storm Ophelia. Background information is provided, but it is not listed there. There is a framework for flooding and others for maritime, rail and nuclear emergencies, but there is none for storms. The document was only updated in 2024....

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: How was it that one week after the storm, emergency hubs were only being set up? The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, was on the radio and said that there had been far too long a delay in getting everything set up. It is clear that there were problems with doing so. The one thing people from the west and the north west who rang radio stations consistently stated was that they felt...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I was on RTÉ radio at the weekend and I heard about the case of a young woman who has a dialysis machine and who was left at home. She had to make her own arrangements to get somewhere in order that she could access electricity to run her machine. We need the HSE and GPs to be involved. GPs indicated that they were not contacted. It is clear that there are major gaps. While the...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is not about investment; it is about making sure we have the right buses and the contracts are in place. We need to go back to a public system of public transport because then we can control exactly the kind of service is provided.

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (11 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Despite the Taoiseach repeatedly stating that climate change is the existential crisis of our time, anyone who reads the programme for Government would not get the sense there is urgency on the part of or a grasp by the Government of the scale of the problem we face and how difficult it is going to be to implement changes. The Government seems intent on continuing with business as usual,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Last year, in advance of the election, Fianna Fáil made a huge play on prioritising women's health. That included free hormone replacement therapy, which was due to come in in January. This was very welcome at the time but, unfortunately, January came and went, and there is still no free HRT for women. There appears to be no plan for putting it in place. Will the Tánaiste let me...

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is 13 days since Storm Éowyn ripped through the country, including many homes, businesses and farms, causing devastation for so many, especially in the west and north west. It has been a very difficult period for people. When they saw there was no Dáil sitting last week, they really were asking where their politicians and leaders were. I agree with them. Unfortunately, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I concur with the previous speakers. The Taoiseach has repeatedly said Storm Éowyn was a storm without precedent, and he is absolutely correct. What is also without precedent is his Government's lack of response. There was no plan. The Government left the ESB to do the heavy lifting.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: We will have statements on the matter today but what we need are questions and answers with the Minister to find out where the Government was. Where were the Ministers? What were the Departments doing? How were they actually connecting? The one thing that has consistently come across from all the people who were caught up in this awful storm was they were being left absolutely on their...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a public consultation will be held on the proposed carbon budgets to 2040; the timeframe for a consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2280/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected timeline for the publication of the Climate Action Plan 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Government's stance on expanding mining activities in protected areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2686/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has, or intends to, communicate with his Northern Ireland counterpart in relation to the proposed gold mine in the Sperrin Mountains in County Tyrone, or whether there has been any Departmental discussions related to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2687/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (5 Feb 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department made a submission to the Tyrone gold mine plans; and if the Department had any concerns about its development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2688/25]