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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Department has conducted a review of requirements for additional places for each school planning area in County Wicklow for primary and secondary schools; if so, if she could provide the results of that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6047/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Dáil is in the final stages of legislating for the redress scheme for the survivors of the mother and baby homes. There is widespread criticism of this scheme from Opposition, legal and human rights experts and, most importantly of all, from the survivors. The main criticism stems from the exclusion of survivors who have spent less than six months in these institutions. That means...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Tánaiste should not compound the wrongs.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of approved connection agreements entered into by EirGrid for the purposes of data centre connection on an annual basis from 2010 to 2022; the number and maximum import capacity each of those which have been granted connection agreements but have yet to be connected; the location of those connection points;...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of any register of data centres, including their location, energy and water requirements, held by any public entity; and if not, his views on whether a register should be available to assist with capacity planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school build for a school (details supplied), including but not limited to a timetable for establishment of a design team, site purchase, submission of planning permission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5259/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish a design team for the new build of a school (details supplied) to operate in parallel with the finalisation of the purchase of the site in order to expedite the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5260/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the master plan has been completed for a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5261/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Safety (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will conduct a safety audit of the road crossing at the entrance of a school (details supplied) in view of the serious accident that happened to a student there; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide school bus transport for a school (details supplied) to enable students access the site used for PE, which is currently a 20 minute walk each way for the duration that the school remains in its temporary accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5263/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the security review conducted at a school (details supplied); when that review will be made available to the school and recommendations implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5264/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the consultation that has occurred between her Department and Wicklow County Council over the past year in relation to the new school build for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (2 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the spend by her Department in the provision of temporary school accommodation in County Wicklow for primary and secondary schools on an annual basis for the years 2010 to 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5266/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Recognition (1 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans for her Department to recognise gender identity on school management information systems, given that the Central Statistics Office is planning on recognising gender identity other than male and female in the 2027 census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4964/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Minister of State ask the Minister to review this process with the HSE?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: There are a few things in the Minister of State's response that I find quite concerning. The first is that it is quite a hands-off response. It sort of says, "We have done what we can do and now it is up to the clinicians and the people suffering from this to lobby the drug manufacturers to get them to put the application in." That is not good enough. There is an issue. If, as the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I will raise the issue of hyperemesis. As she is aware, it is a condition whereby pregnant people suffer from severe nausea and vomiting. It is very debilitating for people and can lead to many of them ending up in hospital through dehydration or weight loss. It impacts 1% to 2% of pregnancies. There was a campaign by Hyperemesis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I was going to raise the issue of disconnections; I hope I will get a chance to do so. I wish to follow up on the issue just raised, however. A decision was made 12 years ago that this tariff would be applied. The commission assumed it was being applied as a €50 million tariff but the ESB was applying it as a percentage. How can that discrepancy happen? That seems to be a large...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Did EirGrid also apply it as a percentage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: It took the direction as it was meant. It was only the ESB that applied the percentage.