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Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome the rights of nature advocates who are in the Gallery. They and other environmental advocates have been working for decades to try to bring to the fore the needs of nature. Their work on this issue has been vital. As we are all aware, nature is in crisis. It has been dying on its feet for decades and that process has accelerated in recent years. Aligned with that is our...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I wish to raise the issue of the EU migration pact. It is a highly controversial and complex issue. It took eight years for the EU to agree these proposals and yet only half a day has been set aside at the Joint Committee on Justice to hear them. If we compare that with the amount of time given to the controversy in RTÉ in two different committees, we can see the disparity. These...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland accepts the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the Swiss climate case; if so, whether any policy changes will arise from that determination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17137/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will review the climate action plan to take into account the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the Swiss climate case; his views on whether any policy changes will arise from that determination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17140/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the rationale for Ireland intervening in the recently decided European Court of Human Rights Swiss climate case; the size of the legal team involved; the associated costs of that case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17138/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what interaction he had with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs in relation to Ireland's intervention in the European Court of Human Rights Swiss climate case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17139/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail which intercity rail services will be allocated the new railcar carriages; when they will be deployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17141/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the first 95 electric and battery-electric carriages will be deployed; what services they will be deployed to; how decisions on deployment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17142/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the electric DART service for Wicklow town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to increase the retirement age for retained firefighters; if so, when this will be in place; what will happen to those firefighters who reach the earlier retirement age in the meantime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17136/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recorded or confirmed dates of fireblight erwinia amylovora infections detections by his Department to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Process (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether the delay in publishing the marine protected areas Bill will have consequences for the State’s ability to identify potential offshore energy locations; whether that, in turn, will undermine the State’s efforts to meet its renewable targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16794/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Transport Policy (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 12. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the barriers to student bodies establishing a carpooling scheme for travel to a university campus (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Process (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can confirm that the marine protected areas Bill will be brought forward in April; whether the delay to date in publishing the Bill has been a technical issue; if so, if he will provide details on what that issue is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16795/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether those with a disability from birth have the same qualifying criteria for access to speech and language therapies as those with an acquired disability; if not, if he will outline the different criteria for such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16793/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the Mother and Baby Home Commission of Inquiry has called on the Government to grant redress to residents (details supplied); if these calls are to be addressed by his Department, either through the current redress schemes or by another means; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has any responsibility for the monitoring of medical card patients' access to appointments in private GP facilities; specifically, if there is a practice of longer waiting times for patients in primary care on medical cards as opposed to for those paying full fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reports (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the timeline for completion of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16798/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: From one Wicklow TD to another, I wish the Taoiseach the absolute best in his new role. I feel like a broken record when I address this issue. The Taoiseach is familiar with it. It is the 20 or so students in Greystones who do not have a secondary school place yet for September. We have been repeatedly told that a solution will be found for them. We are only five or six weeks away...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on delivery of the new school build for a school (details supplied), and the planned building extensions for other schools in Greystones. [16426/24]