Results 1,381-1,400 of 4,012 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Jennifer Whitmore: That would be great. The Avoca mines remediation programme is also mentioned in the Estimates.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State. Does that mean the feasibility study for 2008 will be reviewed? Is there potential for a feasibility study to be rolled out, rather than simply having a maintenance programme for the Avoca mines? There is a lot of potential in the area.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Jennifer Whitmore: My understanding is there was a big project and then we hit the financial crisis which meant it was put aside and only the maintenance aspect was being looked into. A lot could be done there. There were plans to examine leaching in order to try to prevent contamination from entering the water source and other such work. The Minister of State mentioned a figure of €58 million. It is...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Jennifer Whitmore: Okay. I thank the Minister of State.
- Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister of State's response to the Social Democrats proposal for a targeted price cap does not make sense. He says that he is reluctant to do this because the profits of energy companies could skyrocket. Those profits are skyrocketing now, and we are seeing people suffer. We are seeing businesses go under, parents who cannot feed their children and elderly people who are suffering...
- Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the price of energy has more than doubled in the past year; — consumers' energy bills have increased to an average of €4,300 per year; — more than 40 per cent of households are now estimated to be living in fuel poverty, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute; — a consultant...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: I have just realised that Mr. Armstrong is in the building regulation element of this issue. I had a lot of questions about targets, which the witness may actually have been briefed on. If I can ask the questions about the housing targets, hopefully his colleagues have made sure he is armed with all the facts. The opening statement stated that for local authority housing, the target is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Okay, perfect. On that point, how many have been retrofitted to B2 energy rating to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Are they to a B2 energy rating?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: They are the ones that are being done by local authorities themselves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: More than 30,000 would require retrofitting from 2024 onwards. There would be six years in which to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Is there a breakdown on a local authority level?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Are some doing better than others? Has there been any analysis of the barriers faced by the different local authorities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Would it be possible to get that breakdown from Mr. Armstrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: That would be better than having him read it out. I am trying to get my head around the process. How does a local authority choose the houses to retrofit to a B2 standard? Is a retrofit conducted as standard if there is a change of tenancy? Is that when the local authority would do the upgrade work? Do local authorities have to move tenants out? In order to get to a B2 rating, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: The upgrade work happens while the tenants remain in the home.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Upgrades of 36,500 homes will be done. That leaves 100,000 that will not be done. Is that right? Has there been an assessment of all local authority housing? Have the BERs of each of those houses been established?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Many people are renting. Is it correct that landlords who wish to upgrade can evict their tenants to do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: My concern about energy efficiency measures is that the State is subsiding them. If we are subsidising a landlord to do up his or her house, which is what we want, we do not want tenants to be put at risk of eviction because of work that is being paid for, or at least subsidised, by the State. At the moment, landlords have to offer the tenancy back. I think the tenants who were in place...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Feb 2023)
Jennifer Whitmore: Does the Department collect data? Does it know the number of tenants that are offered their accommodation back? Does the landlord have to inform the Department? Is some data collection being conducted to ensure that is actually happening?