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

Lynn Ruane: I apologise for not being here for the opening statement, but I read it in detail. I had a clash. I will go through my specific questions for each individual and I will go through all the questions before people respond because of time. I will start with Dr. Scanlon first. She has spoken about the ethical implications of AI. How, in everyday language, does the council plan to ensure...

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

Lynn Ruane: In thinking about fearmongering and stuff like that, I do not like the way that was framed. At the end of the day, AI, social media and even automated telephone lines are already impacting people's lives, compounding inequality and poverty and pushing people out of conversations. I need to feel that there are champions, advocates or people pushing for the element that reduces the harms AI...

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

Lynn Ruane: You have to know what to ask it. There is a step before the asking or engagement.

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

Lynn Ruane: There is another step that is missing.

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

Lynn Ruane: We also had access to books and curriculums but things like how that was fed to us and taught to us, the bias written into it, the curriculum not being related to certain communities and its relatability, as well as teachers not being from people's own community were not considered. There are other things before the point of opportunity, which are not being acknowledged, regarding how a...

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

Lynn Ruane: The information people access is colonised to a great degree, when we look at the number of people whose work will never be printed on the Internet, published in a book or referenced in a lecture hall. It is about being able to critically engage with the thing they access, whose information it is and who owns it. Is it actually-----

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

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the latitude.

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

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister of State. On the digital sandbox, currently there is a digital divide. There is a literacy divide and a digital literacy divide on top of that. If those who are behind in digital literacy do not have the literacy levels to engage in the testing of different innovations or technologies within a sandbox, and if there is a divide in the interaction with what happens...

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

Lynn Ruane: How does the sandbox protect against the vulnerabilities or the inequities in-built into financial institutions and so on? If people are not proficient enough to engage, how does a sandbox work when only those who are either privileged enough or proficient enough are able to engage?

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

Lynn Ruane: The testing of it would potentially have either bias or inadequacies in it. Does it risk having inequity built into it if we are testing particular technologies or innovations within the sandbox but have a cohort of people who cannot participate in that?

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

Lynn Ruane: It is about how to get those data sets in and how to participate in it. On the EU digital charter, I read a quote from the Minister of State of the Department on encouraging the different sectors to sign up to the charter. She mentioned community leaders. What is meant by community leaders in the context of the charter? Who does the Minister of State see as community leaders?

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

Lynn Ruane: Does the Minister of State see community services as part of the charter and what the charter needs to consider?

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

Lynn Ruane: I am more thinking about historically, when, say, community services and addiction services introduced customer relationship models, CRMs, used for sales. Addiction services had eCASS specifically, but community services really struggled with that administrative burden of even being able to use technology that was a CRM. My fear is that while SMEs and businesses are taken into account, when...

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

Lynn Ruane: It is not only the Minister of State necessarily. It is the conversation generally.

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

Lynn Ruane: How will the Department measure and report on the closing of the digital skills gap? When we look at literacy, and that is the only thing I can compare it to, people think that DEIS has closed the literacy gap. It has not. Literacy increased across the whole nation, regardless of what demographic people were from, but the gap in literacy did not actually decrease. Does the Department have...

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

Lynn Ruane: It might need some indicators and measurements on whether that is being achieved.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Some of my amendments were ruled out of order, which I kind of expected, but this amendment is similar in nature to Sinn Féin's amendment, one that I will be supporting. It relates to a report on the provision of supports to bereaved children. For as long as I have been elected, and prior to that, I have spoken about how single parents are viewed in the country historically. We had a...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. It is also worth noting that in the next term, there will be a piece of legislation that has taken me five or six years to draft because it became so complicated and just kept getting bigger and bigger. It is the child maintenance legislation which would be placed within Revenue rather than an independent agency, which we have seen potentially would not work in terms...