Results 101-120 of 793 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore in 'Dáil debates'

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State for attending and representing the Minister for Education. In early October, the three principals in the town of Greystones in Wicklow came together in an unprecedented fashion to issue a press release telling parents that there was a high likelihood that, between the three schools, sufficient places would not be provided for pupils from local primary schools...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State. Parents will be very relieved to hear the guarantee that there will be a school place for each of the children. We now need this to happen quickly so parents will know a solution will be put in place quickly if they receive refusals at the end of this week or early next week. In Greystones, and indeed in the north Wicklow area, these solutions have taken an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The emissions gap report from the United Nations paints a stark picture when it comes to our climate. UN Secretary General, António Guterres, says: "Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end 3 C temperature rise" and that "the emissions gap is more like an emissions canyon". The Climate Change Advisory Council here has also repeatedly rung alarm bells and said that the pace...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The climate action plans do not meet the targets.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Taoiseach should not forget climate change.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Climate change, climate mitigation and climate adaptation are the biggest issues facing not only this country but the world. Reports from the UN say that we are not doing enough. In Ireland, even if every single element of our climate action plan was implemented to the full, it would not be sufficient for us to meet our targets and the targets the Government has set. I ask for statements...

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...

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...

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome the opportunity to have this debate today. We are three and a half years into this Dáil term and it should have happened a long time ago. We should have had these statements and the commitment from the Minister at the start of the term. I wonder whether the Minister, his party colleagues and his advisers sometimes sit and scratch their hands and wonder, despite bringing in a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Every night and day, we see awful images of atrocities that are occurring and have occurred in the past month in Gaza. This started on 7 October and it is continuing daily. Unfortunately, children are suffering. We see images of children shaking and calling for their mothers, of limp bodies. What is happening in Gaza is awful. I welcome the strong words of the Taoiseach and the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Approximately 4,500 children are waiting for their first appointment with child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, including hundreds in my constituency of Wicklow. Thousands of children are struggling every day with anxiety and with going to school. They are self-harming, have suicidal ideation and are struggling with eating disorders. Thousands of parents have to sit and watch...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Today is international day against climate change, an initiative set up by the UN to create awareness of the threat of global warming. It is an issue that people in Midleton and places like Waterford need no reminder of; they are all too aware of the threat of global warming. Climate change is here. We do not have much discussion in the Chamber about adaptation and how we will actually...