Jennifer Whitmore

Ensure the Programme for Government includes policies to ensure faster and fairer climate action

To highlight policy areas requiring action in relation the delivery of offshore wind and the contribution Arklow Bank Wind Park can make to the 2025 interim targets for offshore wind set out in the Climate Action Plan, whilst also delivering a 1% reduction in Ireland’s annual…

To establish support for these policies among election candidates

We hoped that some of the representatives would engage with the virtual briefing.

To express the importance of marine protected areas.

Greater awareness of Ibec's COVID-19 business preservation and continuity proposals

Parliamentary Questions on a series of Covid-19 issues

That any Programme for Government confronts the climate crisis with the same determination as efforts to tackle Covid-19, puts people fairer and faster climate action, including at least 8% annual reductions in emissions over the lifetime of the Government and passing the new…

Payment of all social welfare through bank account, continuation of Working Family Payment and other in-work income supports, extension of fuel allowance period, safeguards for vulnerable telecommunication customers, continuation in the provision of school meals, provision of…

That the next Government ensure that the proposed review into the security and sustainability of Ireland's energy supply (announced in late 2019) undertake an impartial and transparent assessment of Ireland's energy security through an appointed steering group, drawing on…

Support for retention of a full Department with a full Minister in the next government

sustaining Ireland and the European Union’s commitment to international development::In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that none of us is safe until we are all safe, it will be important to strengthen multilateralism and international development…

To see commitment to and delivery of fairer and faster climate action in the next Government, through a number of key policy areas: strengthening climate legislation and governance mechanisms, public transport and active travel, energy efficiency, renewable energy, a just…

Increased funding for NPWS and eNGOs including BirdWatch Ireland to be included in next Programme for Government to reverse decades of underspend & seriously tackle biodiversity loss.::Imprint on the minds of elected officials the scale of the challenges for biodiversity in…

To ensure that the issues of social inclusion, equality, human rights, climate justice and community development are addressed in the Programme for Governement