Results 121-140 of 167 for long speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (11 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...a cull. However, there are other ways to reduce the herd which could be started now by, for example, reducing insemination or impregnation of cattle. Did our guests model that out to see how long it would take to get to the different scenarios they outlined in their analysis?

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...the working family payment, but the Government missed the opportunity to assist those working families who will find it difficult this winter. The measures the Minister of State outlined in his statement are all long-term ones. We want to see retrofitting and we want to see people being able to feed back into the grid through the microgeneration schemes, but none of that will happen...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Deputy Funchion for bringing forward this important motion. It is important and timely. It would also have been timely a year ago or two years ago, because this issue has been with us for so long. Many parents and families have struggled through the current system. I have found that when parents are able to pay for their childcare, they put their heads down and spend. They know that...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...spoke about turning rhetoric into action as well and how that is fundamental and essential to how we meet our climate challenge. There is an urgency in implementing measures that will result in profound, prolonged and sustained reductions in our carbon emissions, which is something we can proudly showcase to the world. Unfortunately, to date Ireland has been wasting time when it comes to...

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...free healthcare, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition, with a primary focus on disadvantaged children, including those experiencing poverty, ethnic minority children and refugee children. However, we have a long way to go. Families continue to face the inordinate task of navigating the high cost of childcare, the cost of education, rising rents, a lack of progress in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in relation to women who were working in the home for a long time not eligible for certain pension entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45733/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Centres (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of short-term and long-term jobs created from each existing data centre in Ireland in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40577/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 2442. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he has taken to date to address the long waiting list for children with scoliosis seeking surgery; the impact Covid-19 has had on waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28190/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (7 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...instead stated it will install monitoring equipment at the site, which is a very different thing from treatment equipment. Treatment equipment will prevent the water being contaminated and provide long-term security of supply whereas monitoring equipment will only indicate if there is a problem. It is essentially just a warning system. Why is Irish Water no longer installing treatment...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (17 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...has been a considerable population increase in County Wicklow but it has not been matched by our public transport infrastructure, particularly rail infrastructure. Many people have to commute long journeys on heavily congested roads when they would much prefer to have rail services available to them. I ask the Minister to make a statement on that matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (17 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...to look at extending it to Arklow. The infrastructure is there. The rail line is there and we need to build on it. It takes years to put in these plans and people are suffering now. People have long commutes and are being forced further and further away from their workplaces and families. They need access to public transport services, and our environment needs that as well. I also...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...it is future-proofed to incorporate future conventions relating to marine conservation coming down the line. I hope to bring forward amendments to that effect. When I began my career, which was a long time ago now, it was after I had grown up in a marine household. My neighbours worked for the Marine Institute and would often bring me samples to look at under the microscope in my...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...target to meet. It will be difficult to get that cultural shift into our agriculture and land usage to address carbon usage. When it comes to electricity, it is an easy target we could meet as long as we start controlling some of the usages of electricity such as data centres and start introducing demand management measures to deal with that. We are going to tell people we expect them...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...because we are looking at a framework document which should not look at one sector or energy user. If I had mentioned data centres, it would have been ruled out of order. I have no problem with data centres as long as the energy is renewable. The Minister of State said there has been a big debate on data centres. The problem is there has not been such a debate. We need a big debate on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (1 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts he is taking to address the long waiting list for SEAI warmer homes grant; the extent which Covid-19 has impacted on the waiting list for retrofitting of homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29430/21]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I confirm I am in Agriculture House on the Leinster House campus. I thank everyone for coming in today. It is a very interesting conversation, one that has been a long time coming and has been a long time needed. I used childminders because it was, essentially, like having a second mammy for my children. They would go to the childminder's house, do their homework and cook with her...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (20 May 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...I ask that Irish Water reprioritise it and ensure that a plan is put in place for Barndarrig because there have been many periods of vulnerability and water supply issues in the area. From a more long-term perspective, we need to look at why there are such high levels of nitrite in that water supply, and see where it is coming from and what remediation measures can be put in place to...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...town. There are many large-scale infrastructures being developed, including off-shore wind park, the flood relief scheme and remediation works being carried out at the Avoca mines, as well as the long-awaited, much-needed waste water treatment plant. Arklow was also recently chosen as Wicklow's decarbonisation zone in recognition of its potential. Leading in large-scale development...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...in the interest of the public good or the environmental good. I am happy to see the inclusion of a definition of biodiversity and nature-based solutions and its inclusion in the climate action plan and long-term climate objective, which I have been pushing for since I was first elected. I also welcome that the amendments I tabled to the Nation Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision...