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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (26 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to primary schools to provide swimming lessons to their pupils. [35186/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (26 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to secondary schools to provide swimming lessons to their pupils. [35188/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the witnesses. The last point is very important. I realise there are disputes but we should be very proud, generally, of the postal service we have in Ireland. They are provided by postmasters and postmistresses, postmen and postwomen. It is important to start by acknowledging that. There is a bigger picture around the challenges in many of our communities, particularly but not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The social role, bigger picture thing is broader than just postal deliveries. The question is who meets that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The New Zealand model is a broader social model that could be considered. Has An Post thought about it?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the witnesses for their work and contribution. Their objective is clearly to move Ireland away from fossil fuels. For that to happen, we need to have a sufficient number of renewable energy sources. My view is that we need an abundance of energy to be able to meet all of the needs of the country going into the future. Do the witnesses think as a State that we are moving quickly...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: When does Ms Donnelly reckon we might actually reach those targets if we continue going as we are at present?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Ms Donnelly is saying that we will not meet the targets by 2030. If we are to meet the onshore targets by 2032, and I still hope we can meet the offshore targets by 2032, what are the three things that Government needs to do and prioritise?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Why in Ms Donnelly's opinion are we not meeting our offshore targets?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Does Ms Donnelly think that we can still make some of those targets and by when?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: To follow on from the point regarding looking at future budgets and trying to project into the 2030s, that will be critical as we experience both a green revolution and a tech revolution, which are not mutually exclusive. On the private wires policy, it might be useful for the committee to write to the Minister to ask about the status of that policy to inform us. There are a couple of...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I appreciate that but it can be a challenge to deliver all sorts of projects on time and on budget, not just in the energy space. It is about the principle. We have to create an abundance of energy. That is the principle. We need clean energy to do everything we need to do. It is the principle of Ireland possibly using nuclear energy in the future. We have talked about offshore...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I have to disagree slightly with Senator Higgins. It is as important for the developing world that it has access to artificial intelligence and its potential. I do not think we should be making it a binary choice between sewage treatment plants and access to AI in the developing world. It is the same in Ireland. A binary choice should not be presented between housing and our digital...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for being here. He is very much aware of the "RTÉ Investigates" programme and the work that was done by Aoife Hegarty and her team. It was an example of quality public service broadcasting. I know the Minister of State, like me and so many others, was appalled by what he saw on his screen. I know he wants to take action on foot of that. The Taoiseach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Apologies have been received from Senators Dee Ryan, O'Donovan and Harmon. I am delighted to have with us members of the AI advisory council. Dr. Patricia Scanlon, chair of the advisory council and Ireland's first AI ambassador, will deliver her opening statement. Joining her - and I do not think he has left the building - is Professor Alan Smeaton, emeritus professor of computing at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank Dr. Scanlon. We hope we will have time for two rounds. There are seven minutes for questions and answers from members.