Results 21-40 of 167 for long speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Special Report by the Ombudsman for Children on Direct Provision: Motion (30 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...actually takes on board the recommendations and suggestions put forward in this report. We see increased numbers of refugees coming to Ireland to access protection from places like Ukraine along with traditional countries of origin. Against the backdrop of the horror we are seeing inflicted on children in a war zone like Palestine or in the famine in Yemen, it is beholden on us to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Enrolments (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...will be put in place quickly if they receive refusals at the end of this week or early next week. In Greystones, and indeed in the north Wicklow area, these solutions have taken an awfully long time. It can be the following May or July before parents actually know what school their children will be going to. That is not fair to the children and parents, or indeed to the schools. I ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ..., but these are exactly the same terms as those in the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act. The general scheme further states that the agency may invest the assets of these funds in a fossil fuel undertaking as long as these do not go against the objectives of the national transition and the State's climate change objectives, which reads to me that the State could invest billions in a coalmine...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is really positive. It is absolutely where we need to go and it is a long-term programme. It does take a long time to get these things done; to get them through the planning system and get the works are being done at the right time and so on. On the ESB, Ardnacrusha and the like, there are conditions that could be put in place and things they could do to help mitigate in the absence...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: My fear is that there is a long process. We are talking about another consultation and a review, which will feed into sectoral plans, and I do not know when that will happen. By the time we get around to embedding nature-based solution thinking into our policies, it will be too late. We will have already installed a new generation of infrastructure that might not do what we need it to do....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: Does Mr. Gannon think the CRU's processes take too long? We even see in quarter 1 of 2023, during the early stages of the energy demand strategy, that the CRU did a consultation. There was a call for evidence and the CRU is now developing a more detailed consultation which it intends to publish in quarter 4 of 2023, with the targeted timeframe decision to be taken in quarter 1 of 2024....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (14 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what the median processing times are for citizenship applications; what measures are in place to address the long processing times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49980/23]

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome the opportunity to have this debate today. We are three and a half years into this Dáil term and it should have happened a long time ago. We should have had these statements and the commitment from the Minister at the start of the term. I wonder whether the Minister, his party colleagues and his advisers sometimes sit and scratch their hands and wonder, despite bringing in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1370. To ask the Minister for Health the reason employees working for an organisation (details supplied) in a long-term residential house for disabled persons are not assessed as Section 39 employees despite having worked throughout the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48810/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans of the School Building Unit: Department of Education (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The school has been hearing that for a long time. My understanding is that the patron has lodged an application for that. When will that be signed off? We cannot have a situation where children have to walk to sports facilities in the rain.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...seen the impact and huge community and societal cost of the prices. There have been record energy prices for consumers, and record levels of energy poverty and disconnections. At the same time, along with the incredible impact on our communities and individuals, there have been record profits for energy companies. That is a clear illustration that our energy market is not robust enough...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome the debate on this long-overdue legislation which the Social Democrats will be supporting. I acknowledge the work done by abortion rights campaigners to get us to this point, particularly Together for Safety. Without their tireless campaigning for safe access zones, I believe this legislation would have fallen off this Government's agenda and would have been delayed even further...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ..., if not millions, of school books recycled or thrown out every year, simply because of small changes or because the electronic codes cannot be shared. This has been going on for an awfully long time. I would like to see free school books for secondary school students as well but until that happens, will the Taoiseach bring in the publishing companies and the Department and have a...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...to see an undermining of public faith by companies not paying as much as they should because of the very many loopholes in terms of losses and capital costs that allow them to offset business decisions made long before they knew the war was coming. This is an important point from the perspective of public confidence and I ask that the Government review the offsets being afforded the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...until the day before her surgery was to happen whether she had enough money to have it. I have also been contacted by another constituent, a young woman who is suffering from this disease. The long time between appointments and the dearth of information on her condition are really impacting on her life. What can I tell these constituents who are suffering from this disease when the come...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (28 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if any provisions are in place for people with life-long illnesses who have been declined mortgages despite financial capacity because their life-long illness precludes them from obtaining mortgage protection insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31523/23]

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy John Brady in particular for bringing this motion forward. Deputy Brady has worked on this issue for a long time. When I was on Wicklow County Council with him, he put a massive amount of work into the issue. I want to acknowledge that. The Minister referred to his long-standing admiration for retained firefighters and for their dedication. He said he...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...am aware the Minister of State is putting the frameworks in place. It just takes time for those frameworks to take effect. I appreciate the Minister of State's point that the journey is not short but long and that whoever is in government in the next term will have to take the task on board and continue. However, there are things that could be done now that would have an immediate...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (24 May 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...from those services, and on what the Minister plans to do to ensure Arklow, the corresponding district, Baltinglass and west Wicklow have sufficient ambulance cover so that people are not waiting long periods for the help and assistance they need, which is obviously putting their lives at risk.