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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail the process for the establishment of Re-Turn Ireland; the governance structures of that entity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21899/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I wish to ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to detail the process for the establishment of Re-Turn Ireland, the governance structures of that entity, and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister of State. I have a number of concerns about it. They may all be completely fine and not warranted, but there is no information on the Re-Turn website anywhere about the organisation, how it is structured, who the board of directors are or any of that information. When the Minister of State talks about transparency, it is not there at the moment. He talks about the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I would be interested, and the Minister of State might not have the figures now, in what the salaries of the staff are and whether there are any bonuses or salaries being provided to the directors. That is very important information. Regarding the revenues that are made by this not-for-profit company, they could actually be quite large. It has been estimated that from 1 February to this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Do I not come in again?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I raise nicotine pouches. A nicotine pouch rests up against a person's gum. They are five times stronger than a cigarette. Children are using these in schools. Teachers do not know they have them under their gum. They are highly addictive. They are marketed to teens and come in mint or berry flavours. We currently do not regulate them. In January, I sent a parliamentary question to...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Independent Group for bringing forward this really important motion. Most families across the country have experienced pressures either from a childcare perspective or from an elder care perspective so this really important motion. I will cover both aspects of this motion today. Regarding elder care, in January the ESRI found the 74% of all nursing home beds were provided by...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: In response to a previous contribution, the Tánaiste said there is a plan to deal with tents that are popping up across the city. Will he tell us what that plan is? What we have seen is tents removed, fences put up and the problem moved to other streets. Less than six hours after tents were removed from the canal, they are now down in Ringsend and East Wall. This is clearly not a...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: What is the plan to deal with the tents?

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: What is the plan for people who are seeking asylum?

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Tánaiste is not answering the question.

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I hope the Government has a large supply of fences, because that is its response to this.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Social Democrats also believe we need to have statements and a discussion in the Dáil on the process for asylum seekers and the tents that are cropping up around the city. All the Government's policies have done to date is move tents from one part of the city to another. The Taoiseach can shake his head but that is all that has happened.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: What is the Taoiseach's plan? What is he going to do? Clearly, Government policy is failing the men who are in tents, the communities where the tents are cropping up and the local businesses. What is the Government's plan and when is it going to implement it? What it has done to date is not good enough. The Social Democrats called for a full audit of IPAS and Ukrainian accommodation to...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank my colleague Deputy Gannon who has very strongly and adeptly described the flaws and gaps in this legislation, and indeed the trauma still experienced by so many survivors in the State. I want to talk about another group of men and women who deserve recognition and the support of the State but who have been completely ignored by it to date, namely the survivors of Westbank...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (24 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I do not know how we have gone from this Bill that talks about the remit of Gas Networks Ireland to one that is now looking to transfer the functions relating to the Maritime Area Planning Act from the Minister for housing to the Minister for the Environment at the very last Stage. It seems extraordinary the Government is tacking on such a significant change without any discussion with the...

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...

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...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: There are approximately 20 children in the Greystones-Kilcoole area who are in sixth class at the moment and still do not have a secondary school place for September. Their sixth class year will finish in ten weeks' time. Their peers are getting their yearbooks ready, going to open days in their secondary schools and picking their subjects, but these children still have no idea where they...