Results 1-18 of 18 for cork speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Some 280,000 farmers are still awaiting their agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payments. In counties such as Donegal and Cork, more than 3,500 are waiting while in Wicklow it is approximately 350. This is an important funding source for farmers to assist them to transition to more nature-friendly farming models. When will those payments be made? When will every farmer have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...not seem to have been put in place to mitigate this. It is not just an issue in Wicklow. From talking to Deputy Catherine Murphy, I know it is an issue in her constituency in County Kildare. It is also an issue in Cork South-West and even in Dublin Central there is an issue with special needs transport for constituents of my colleague, Deputy Gannon. This is a major issue. I hope the...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...slowness. We just do not have the time or the luxury of time anymore. Sometimes I feel like we are just running to stand still with regard to this. There was a report from University College Cork, UCC, today stating that a number of our rare native plants will become extinct because of climate change. We are also now seeing the impact of climate change on our already embattled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Arklow and Wicklow would do the smaller jobs. Obviously, however, when these big turbines come in, a big port is needed to deal with them and, similarly, with Shannon Foynes Port and the Port of Cork. Has a strategic decision like that been made by Government and the ports would then row into that? Is it more that whoever makes the best business case and is in the right place at the...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...in the HSE report last year was that in emergency situations pregnant people needed to be less than 30 minutes from a maternity hospital. Such a decision would impact all of Wicklow, west Cork, Kerry, Clare, Roscommon, Donegal and Monaghan. This was a significant proposal by the HSE. The move was strongly opposed by many families as well as the Midwives Association of Ireland. They...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (22 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: We will be moving from Cork to Wicklow. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Josepha Madigan, for coming to the Chamber to take this Topical Issue. I know it is not her area and she will probably be limited in what she can say. It would have been preferable for the Minister for Transport to be here, but I understand that is sometimes not possible. I want to raise the need for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...social origins. On behalf of the committee I welcome Professor Susan Golombok from the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, Professor Deirdre Madden from University College Cork, UCC, and Dr. Brian Tobin, from National University of Ireland, NUI, Galway. Before we begin, I will deal with the issue of privilege and some housekeeping matters. All witnesses are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the proposed three new centres of excellence being established in the Cork, Limerick and Clare and Mayo and Sligo Leitrim education and training boards due to be established by 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8735/22]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...If Members have not listened to the interview, I would suggest they do so. It shone a light on a real stain on this country, namely, how we treat children like Adam. Adam is ten years old and lives in Cork. I listened to the interview as he described how he rolls around on the ground and tries to crack his back to alleviate the pain he is in. He said he feels as if he is at the bottom...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (13 May 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...studies have indicated that Ireland could be home to 10% to 20% of the global population of this species. Of the eight known coastal surface hotspots in the north-east Atlantic, five are located off the coasts of Cork, Kerry, Clare, Mayo and Donegal. We are truly blessed to have this amazing creature come to our shores every year and call Ireland home. However, basking sharks are...

Dumping at Sea Act 1996 (Section 5(12)) (Commencement) Order 2021: Motion (11 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Protection Agency, EPA, is fully resourced with staff and is given sufficient time to ensure that all environmental protections are afforded to this very special area of our country. With my Cork South-West colleague, Deputy Cairns, I am eager to ensure the agency is properly resourced. I ask the Minister to make sure that is the case. There must also be engagement with local...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ..., Deputy Cairns, I am calling on the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to use his ministerial powers under the Planning Act to halt the development of those lands and to work with Cork City Council to pursue a compulsory purchase order of the site as a place of national importance. Anything less is a further insult to the survivors and their families. It is time for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (20 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...in the national model of care, including provision of full staff teams and clinical space for the six specialist perinatal mental health hubs in the maternity hospitals in Galway, Limerick, Cork, the Rotunda, the national maternity hospital and the Coombe and for the development of a national mother and baby unit in view of the recent findings in the national maternity experience survey....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (6 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the investigation into the death of 23 buzzards in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28216/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Diseases (22 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...and confirmed to me this week that there have been several confirmed additional cases of rabbit haemorrhagic disease identified in hares in Wexford and Kildare and in rabbits in Clare and Cork. In light of this, will the Minister of State suspend the issuing of the hare coursing licences as a precautionary measure until further information on the disease is available?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (9 Jun 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 740. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the investigation into the death of 23 buzzards in County Cork will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10370/20]

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...to create a series of by-laws to enable our rangers to protect these important natural resources? In recent weeks, we have been made aware of the illegal killing, in January, of 23 buzzards in Cork, as mentioned in the Chamber. The enormity of this killing is shocking. Twenty-three birds of a protected species that until relatively recently were considered extinct in Ireland have been...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (20 May 2020)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1428. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the most recent mass poisoning of buzzards in County Cork which occurred in late 2019 including specifics of the poisoning; the process by which it was investigated; the outcome of the investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6957/20]