Results 41-60 of 4,284 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I have asked the Minister this previously and I know the planning authorities are separate. However, it is the State's responsibility to set the policy framework. From a policy perspective, will the State allow commercial LNG facility?
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: So, it would not support-----
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Technically, the Government could have 20% that is coming from a commercial LNG. Unfortunately, they are not-----
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I do not think so. In the previous programme for Government, there was a ban or a "No" on it. I am looking for something similar.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Previously, the position was articulated clearly. That articulation is no longer there. I am seeking a firm articulation of that and it appears An Coimisiún Pleanála is as well.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: That policy position has been set aside. What is needed is a firm policy. I will not get it from the Minister today.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I have a supplementary question. In the event a commercial LNG facility is developed----
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Excellent. In the event a commercial LNG facility is developed, would the Minister consider there was still a case for a State-owned one, which would cost approximately €1 billion?
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: The risk is that if a commercial one is developed, it would be hard to justify spending €1 billion on a temporary State-owned one.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I share the concerns about not having stand-alone legislation to deal with marine ecology and marine protected areas. Inevitably what will happen if we amend other legislation, whether it is DMAPs or the Wildlife Act, is that there will be a watering down of it. I am finding it hard to understand this. Three years have been spent developing this stand-alone legislation. What are the...
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: That is great to hear. Even though it is a new Administration, the Minister did have responsibility for this in his previous role and the fact that it is the same Minister dealing with it now should certainly help to bring it to fruition. It is really important that there is no watering down and that it is stand-alone legislation. I take the Minister's point about going from 3% to 10% but...
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: This is the rapid-fire round. On data centres, I absolutely agree we have to have to be strategic about them. We need to work out how many we can afford to have in the country from energy security, energy demand, energy pricing and emissions perspectives. I welcome the CRU report and hope that will be delivered shortly. The sum of €14 billion the ESB requested for grid investment...
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: The ESB only factored in the existing data centres.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: That has not been identified and the funding for that has not been-----
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the special schools redesignation on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36406/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the changes coming in under the redesignation of special schools will come into place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36407/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the channels that exist for a prisoner in the UK, with family connections in Ireland, to be transferred to the Irish prison system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36253/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36402/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 246. To ask the Minister for Health when the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital was established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36403/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: 247. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to establish the national paediatric allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant (bone marrow) unit in St. James’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36404/25]