Results 121-140 of 4,637 for speaker:Jennifer Whitmore
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Just on those last points, the PR6 does not set aside any money for any further growth in data centres. It is only dealing with the existing data centres and those that have been approved. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Has it specified how much in that €18 billion is due to data centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: But have they actually specified, of the €18 billion-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Yes. I think 7% of data centres is the distribution load. It could be €1.5 billion for data centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Just in relation to the pricing, which I will look into, if you are looking at just the cost of data centres from the generation aspect, because that generation crisis that happened a number of years ago cost millions or euro to deal with it, and now-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: They are costing us an awful lot of money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: So, they will pay back what they-----
- School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Year in, year out in Wicklow we have problems with the school bus service. It usually happens two or three days before school starts, when the emails start to arrive from Bus Éireann to tell parents - who have already paid for and secured tickets for their children and made plans on the basis that they will have a way to get to school - that, for whatever reason, there is no bus...
- School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: -----have the Department carry out a review analysis of the school transport system in Wicklow? If it does so, it will identify where all of the challenges and barriers are. I reckon that those challenges and barriers apply cross the country as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank our witnesses for coming in today. I am trying to get my head around that information as there was a lot of it in the opening statement and the discussion that followed. It is within the remit of the Government to address the mackerel and herring quotas.. It is not a competency of the EU and the Government does not need to go back to the EU to redistribute those quotas. NIFA had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Why was that decision made? What was said at the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: However, he did not reduce the overall quota. He just redistributed it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: With the stocks after collapsing, even if that was redistributed or the NIFA had more access to it, is there potential or would it viable for it? Obviously, if the fish are not there, it is going to be difficult for anyone to make a living out of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: Mr. Foley was talking about the Icelandic fisheries saying they were in Icelandic waters and, therefore, they can access it. Is there potential then or would that be something similar for stocks going up from the Celtic Sea? Is that a similar opportunity? If the Celtic Sea stocks have gone northwards up into the Irish Sea, is there an argument to be made that they are actually Celtic Sea...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: We are seeing a lot of changes in the different stocks and their distribution and the ranges. It is hard to predict with stocks what movements there are going to be. On the flip side then, we are also seeing things like bluefin tuna coming into our waters, which we would not have ever had before. Do the witnesses think the Department moves fast enough when new opportunities come up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: -----to actually maximise it for them? The point was well made that if there was a quota, it would have to be hook and line because otherwise the quota would just be eaten up by the bigger players and NIFA would not get any of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: The inshore sector is getting squeezed significantly. Mr. Desmond and I have had discussions on sprat. I know I am on a different side of that issue, but we do need to have sustainable management of fisheries and because there has been a lack of management in many different fisheries over the years, the witnesses are being overly impacted by that and they are sort of being squeezed by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association (23 Sep 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: I do understand as well that they are all individual businesses, and sometimes it can be difficult to bring together groups that see themselves on an individual basis and such. We have agreed to write to the Minister to have more consultation. The witnesses have obviously found that their voices have not been heard and listened to when it comes to their sector over the past number of years....