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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Could the Minister provide some more concrete examples? We hope Departments will do this. There is a body of work to do. I am looking for concrete examples or timelines of how the Minister has been engaging with other Departments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Yes. What is the timeframe for that national office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Perfect, thank you. With regard to the widening digital divide, especially when we look at the economic gap, I am thinking about houses in Ireland at present. Lots of people availed of a retrofitting grant. Is there any consideration for something like this for households? We are talk about schools and different sectors becoming more digital but when you look at people in their homes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: That would be great. I am conscious we can all get the free ChatGPT on our phones but first you have to have a phone to get the free version and then the paid versions are much better. Naturally, this digital divide will come swift and fast. The Minister of State talked about literacy in schools and it is great this is in the strategy for 2027 and is on the way. Earlier, we spoke about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Thank you.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I ask the Senator to be careful with something that is a live investigation.

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Ministers agus a chairde go léir, it is an honour to stand before you today as an ally and a proud supporter of the LGBTQI+ community. Over the month of June, we celebrated Pride around the country and around the world. Pride is a powerful expression of identity, resilience and love. I had the pleasure of walking in the 2025 Dublin Pride Parade alongside the Tánaiste, Deputy...

Committee on Children and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Apologies have been received from Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl and Senator Nikki Bradley. We will now go into private session to consider some housekeeping matters.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: The agenda item for consideration this morning is pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the equality (miscellaneous provisions) Bill 2024. We are joined by David Joyce, equality officer with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions; and Ms Rachael Ryan, head of the legal rights unit in SIPTU. We are joined by Rebecca Gorman, head of policy and media with the Irish National...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Senator Keogan. If the witness would not mind, we do not have any bottles of water, crisps or anything like that with any branding in here.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Mr. Joyce. Ms Gorman and Mr. Honohan are going to deliver the alliance's opening statement.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Gorman and Mr. Holohan. Dr. Begley is next.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Dr. Begley and invite Ms Walsh to deliver her opening statement.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Walsh and invite Ms Barry to deliver her opening statement.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Barry and all of our witnesses for their opening statements and written submissions. It is proposed to publish the opening statements on the Oireachtas website. Is that agreed? Agreed. Before I call on members, I remind everyone that they will be allocated seven minutes' speaking time. This allocation must include the responses from witnesses. If time permits, at the end I...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Does the Deputy wish to direct her questions?

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: We might leave it for the second round. We will get a second round. Deputy Ó Murchú knows I am rigid with the rules.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: Senator Andrews, I think you have been bumped up. Maybe it is because it is the last day before recess that members are coming and going from lots of committees and meetings.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: One issue I see coming up is that, even for those who manage to get a device, we do not have a mechanism whereby they automatically get a new device if it is broken or if the battery dies. It is a very serious issue. In some schools, the noises of the AAC devices are disturbing other children but those devices are these children's voices. Ms Walsh has been far too quiet so I will come to...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank Ms Walsh. I had picked her up wrong because I thought she saying there should be less time. We are on the same page. I have a brief one minute left. I will be strict on my own time as well as on everybody else's. I really appreciated the personal example Mr. Holohan gave of what happened to his wife. Examples from real life help us, as legislators, in bringing a Bill to life....