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Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend section 23 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 to include the Sprat Fish, Sprattus sprattus, in the Fifth Schedule of the Act; to prohibit the targeted fishing of sprat except where caught as bycatch; to provide for a moratorium on commercial sprat fishing until sufficient scientific data is available regarding sprat habitats,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I want to again raise issues relating to special education supports for schools in Wicklow. I previously raised them in the context of Topical Issues and parliamentary questions and I wrote to the Minister of State directly on two occasions. Ashford national school has two SNAs. One of them is fully allocated to one student. The schools' request for additional support was rejected and its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: In response to the Tánaiste's question, the Social Democrats would absolutely not have spent over €100 million on energy credits for holiday homes. We repeatedly said that. I do not know how anyone could justify that payment. The Tánaiste talks about Wicklow. I will tell him what people and families in Wicklow want. They want the same as families all over the country....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: There are 120 children in Wicklow town who do not have a primary school place for September.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Actually, you have not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: People looking in on this debate today will have their heads in their hands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: They are worried about putting food on their tables and turning their lights on. We have this kind of behaviour going on. I do not think either of the Deputies gets it, to be honest.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: There are economic clouds on the horizon and there is a growing sense of worry about what the future holds. Coupled with that is a lot of frustration with the Government's moralising about this budget. Having splashed the cash in an attempt to buy votes last year, its message has suddenly changed. Now that an election is no longer on the cards, one-off payments are a bad idea. The Social...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: We are doing a party solution.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Government has achieved something no one previously thought possible when it comes to climate. Last year, our forests released more carbon than they stored. That is according to the Climate Change Advisory Council. The Government has turned our forests into carbon emitters. Its record is unbelievably bad. It is so bad that it is hard to fathom. The Government has no plan to remedy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: -----what his climate-sceptic Government will do to deal with this issue?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: What is a bizarre assertion?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is not my assertion; it is the assertion of the Climate Change Advisory Council. It is science.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Forestry is a carbon emitter.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Taoiseach needs to get serious. He needs to listen to the science.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: We are emitting carbon.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is rubbish.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Natural Gas Grid (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 15. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the Government’s position on commercial liquid natural gas facilities in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39906/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Natural Gas Grid (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: 16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will develop a policy statement banning the development of any commercial liquid natural gas facilities in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39907/25]