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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 729. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the mediation measures in place to support retirement plans to allow younger farmers to take over the running of farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54733/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 810. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts spent under the Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the years 2015 to 2024; the main countries and recipients of those payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54633/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 811. To ask the Minister for Health the average time a person is waiting for medical services before availing of the Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54634/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons the further education programmes offered linked to community schools receive less funding than other further education centres; the plans in place to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55190/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 921. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the salary and terms and conditions of staff on local training initiatives are less favourable than those on Youthreach; the plans in place to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55191/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 922. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports his Department could put in place to strengthen the links between two institutions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55199/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the witnesses for what has been a very enlightening discussion. On one of the positives, it is not just the GAA family that is facing some of these challenges and this is similar in a lot of other sporting codes. As part of that audit, there are good examples and there are some really innovative clubs. Again, I am talking about the inclusion model because for us, from a policy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank all our witnesses for attending and the work they do. There is nothing in their opening statements with which I disagree. With regard to part of the challenge with what we all want to do to meet climate targets, I want to ask two questions. Mr. Minogue mentioned our need to be politically brave and climate brave, which I believe we have to be. Part of this involves an obligation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the witnesses for their testimony and for their work more generally. We are here to serve citizens. How can we use not just AI but other technologies to deliver services more effectively? I am conscious that when we, as public representatives, deal with people, we help to guide them through bureaucracies. When groups representing older people and those with disabilities were before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: A lot of those life events obviously involve health. One of my biggest frustrations has been the failure to digitise health records for a long time. At the same time, as Mr. Lowry mentioned, we are seeing AI being used to identify tumours and illnesses. It is transformational. To be blunt, given that the HSE and the Department of Health have failed so far to properly digitalise health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I agree with Mr. Lowry, but I am cautious about the speed at which the technology is changing on one side, and we have a creaking bureaucracy, particularly in health, which is not keeping pace with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Were Mr. Lowry prepared to stake his reputation on it, when would we see fully digitalised health records? That AI identification technology obviously will help for improved health outcomes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: It would be accessible if I wanted it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: We have time for another round, so I will allow four minutes for members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: It is best at answering parliamentary questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank Deputy Mythen. I am conscious Deputy Ó Cearúil was chairing the committee on Gaeilge so I am going to ask Senator Scahill and Deputy Geoghegan for their second round four minutes and then I will give Deputy Ó Cearúil the full seven minutes for his time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: In four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: As Deputy Ó Cearúil was asking around that, I was thinking that, if the Department was happy and our committee was happy, that we as members could engage with the technology. If we could set it up we could trial it as a pilot if Mr. Lowry is agreeable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Absolutely, we would fully expect that to be the case. It could be useful for the committee in terms of seeing how this is going to be rolled out in practice. We might look at arranging a suitable time to do that. I find Ms Cassidy's point about how we use Copilot valid. What is Government policy in this area? I normally try to feed in three to five strategies to summarise it. It does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the witnesses for coming in and sharing their time and expertise. It was a very useful session. For anyone who is observing, we are always keen to get feedback. We invite people to send submissions by email to ai@oireachtas.ie. We hope to continue to work with the witnesses as the committee continues with its deliberations. We now stand adjourned until 11 a.m. next Tuesday, 21...