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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is concerning that the gender action plan has been stalled because of arguments over who pays the secretariat. It is just incredible that this kind of minuscule barrier and issue could stop or stall something so important. I have very little time left. Earlier, Mr. Simon Murtagh from Oxfam mentioned the special drawing rights that were issued by the International Monetary Fund, IMF....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Okay. I thank Mr. McLoughlin very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: How important would it be for Ireland to use its position to do a similar thing and to stand in solidarity with the Danes to ensure another country joins in offering a similar fund. Is COP27 a good opportunity for that?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Public transport in Wicklow is not fit for purpose. Today, I will talk about the Go-Ahead services, specifically the 184, 185, 145 and 45A. They do not show up and drive by empty. The drivers refuse to stop to let people off buses at designated stops and leave young girls stranded in the dark at train stations and bus stations. It is completely unacceptable. I suggest that the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Minister come back to me with proposals?

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Every parent knows about milestones in their children's first two years. They know about the importance of them. They know when they are meant to hit particular developmental targets. They await the targets anxiously and burst with pride when their children meet the targets. This is ingrained into every parent but it is also ingrained into every children's medical specialist. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 5 October 2022, if she will sanction the supply to the school concerned of the 200m2 modular accommodation in 4x50 m2 general classroom accommodation given that the SNU needs have been met within the existing school building and the urgent need for general classroom space; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are in place to continue the care of a person (details supplied) who requires home support services but cannot avail of it due to the lack of expressions of interest from approved providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51435/22]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister for attending. I have a question requiring a brief response and a more in-depth one. I will begin with the first of these. Will individuals who missed out on the payments via the MPRN, such as the Traveller groups, be back-paid for the credit they missed earlier in the year? Will they be compensated only for future credits?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: If they are not being back-paid, will the Minister consider it? There was unfairness in the scheme. It has been rectified this time but it would be good to ensure the individuals concerned get the credits they missed out on.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: In the Minister's statement, he said the Government has taken action to provide further assistance to those who are most vulnerable to the effects of the cost-of-living crisis and then he referred to a range of measures, including the €600 electricity credit. I have been very vocal about the fact that I do not believe this represents good expenditure of taxpayers' money. There should...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: This is why the Social Democrats have not been asking for a cap. If there was one, it would again not be a targeted measure. If there were to be a cap, therefore, it would have to be a targeted one. The main reason people are reducing their energy use now is because of a price mechanism. A price driver is causing this. For wealthy people, however, no price driver will make them reduce...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: On this point, the Social Democrats are not arguing it is only people on social welfare schemes who should have been targeted. It should be people at risk of energy poverty and those finding it difficult to cope. I do not, though, believe that people with holiday homes will find it difficult in this regard, especially now they will be getting two payments. I do not think the MPRN approach...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister mentioned that the backup generation of large energy users, in particular data centres, will need to be made available to the grid. Obviously, that does not apply retrospectively to those who are currently operating or have their permissions granted. Has the Department looked at what generation capacity is available within those existing data centres and looked at ways to have...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: There could be 150 MW available.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am quite disappointed by the underspend on the research side of things. Perhaps we need to go back and see why it was not spent. From being in research myself, I know every researcher has a stack of oven-ready projects that could be funded at a minute's notice. It is surprising the money was not spent, especially in light of the crises in both biodiversity and climate that we face....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: The student accommodation crisis is making equal access to third level an impossibility for many students throughout the country. Access to third level should not depend on where one’s home place is or how wealthy one’s parents are. Anything less than full access for all students is discriminatory, bad for society and bad for our economy. I express solidarity with all those...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will come back in again. The amendment made an important point which I think the Minister of State has missed. I am pleased there is a cross-departmental stakeholder group looking at energy poverty. That is important. However, this amendment also says the results and analysis of the committee will be incorporated into any future schemes with regard to this electricity emergency Bill....

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: Where in this Bill is the committee's advice? Where is it reflected? There has been zero targeting in this Bill. We are seeing €34 million going to people who have a household income of more than €200,000. A figure of €170 million is going to people whose household income is €120,000 and €50 million is going to people who have holiday homes. There has...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: There we have the answer. I am glad there has been some honesty regarding this particular aspect. When it first came to the Dáil and was discussed in December, the reason we were told it was not targeted was because the capability and mechanism was not there. Now, there is an acknowledgement that this was never to be a target mechanism of getting money out and that it was always going...