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Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Lynn Ruane: The Minister is saying that, right now, Ireland cannot return people to Kazakhstan.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does Kazakhstan currently refuse readmissions from Ireland?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does the Minister not think a case-by-case basis is extremely important when we look at the political climate in some countries? We are moving to a place where we are making decisions that will start to create a hierarchy under asylum processes. While we will not return people feeling war, if we have individuals from Kazakhstan coming here who say they are gay men or whatever and that they...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Lynn Ruane: In the context of decision-making, we talk about future-proofing. While we only have 12 people from Kazakhstan now, that figure could grow. As Europe moves towards a much stricter narrative on migration, we may start to see a lot of negative decisions, even in very legitimate cases for asylum, because the EU is becoming harder and harder on migration. Someone may end up with illegal status...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It is not true to say there is nothing we can do. We still have deportations and the option for bilateral agreements.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Lynn Ruane: If someone is here illegally-----

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Commissioner for the presentation. I have two subjects, and if I do not get to the second one, I will wait and come back in. One of them is more of a broad question around culture and how we move forward. Many other people look for more police on the street. I am constantly trying to think about how we have fewer police on the street and the need for fewer police on the...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I have had some off-the-record conversations with retired sergeants and some current police who have spoken about the past and when they started out, especially, being drawn in to using violence unnecessarily, especially in relation to working-class men. Can we truly move forward if we do not also create the space to speak about that? If I am asking communities to speak about the harm they...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I will go back to two issues. Picking up on the point about the Mothers Against Genocide, I am going back a step on that in terms of whether the Commissioner feels their arrests in general were a necessary use of police time given that it was a peaceful protest. They were not blocking anyone from entry during that given time and there is a right to protest. Lots of steps could have been...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: The Commissioner is saying that, in relation to the complaints that were made, he is differentiating between somebody making an accusation that her private parts were touched versus some people may have received strip searches or cavity searches. Is he saying there is some truth in what potentially did happen in some of those accusations?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: There is still a space where something could have happened, where there is no video footage. If people are going to complain, there is due course. There was something made public. There is a committee of parliamentary privileges where any State institution or any individual can make a complaint if they are unhappy about something said on the record here. This issue was made very public,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I echo the well wishes to the Cathaoirleach. I look forward to working with everyone. This committee makes me nervous. I am nervous about exploring how AI intersects with so many different areas of our lives, whether that be the implications it has for poverty, creating digital poorhouses, human rights, war, how vulnerable poor communities interact with the State and understanding the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: There is no such thing as an original thought. Some of my questions are more for me to better my understanding in this area, so I ask the witnesses to bear with me if I jump around a little bit. Do any of the witnesses have an insight or view on the demographics of those developing AI, machine learning and associated technologies?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Why did the Commissioner choose to do that and to bypass that process and ask the Ceann Comhairle to circulate that communication before an independent investigation could actually take place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I am asking for the demographics of the individuals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: To break it down from the abstract concept of a technology company, are we primarily looking at white, middle-class males within those companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Is there a class balance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: These questions are to help me. In the context of education, and this goes back to what Deputy Murphy said about being the consumer, I am concerned about who becomes the consumer and who controls the platform, narrative, information and knowledge. For me, it is not only about ensuring that the working class and more vulnerable groups have access to AI at an educational level, but that we go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: How do you ensure that inclusivity? What are the actual steps involved? Are there community partnerships on different projects, in particular for under-represented cohorts? What efforts are made for inclusivity in the context of research?