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

Sinéad Gibney: Dr. Scanlon talks about labour displacement. It is just such a shame that we seem to have lost sight of the fact that automation should create more leisure time. Labour saving should be a good a thing, right? For me, it is around the degradation of work, the precarity of work and the deepening inequality in society because that quality of work which will be available to certain sections of...

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

Sinéad Gibney: What could an observatory do for us?

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. I am proud to stand beside Deputy Gannon, who speaks with such a strong voice for Dublin city centre. He always has done, in particular on issues related to how we make Dublin a place for all people and really protect our culture and heritage. I want to briefly cover three key points. The first is that the GPO is such a vital...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Trust in nursing homes has been lost. With everything that has come to light in recent months, the one overwhelming response, which really concerns me deeply, is that people are now afraid of nursing homes, or perhaps more afraid, because revelations like these have been coming out for decades. Old age should come with a security and a certainty that a person's needs are met, they are safe...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the incredibly problematic situation in the Middle East. Over the past 18 months, violence has erupted across the Middle East. However, today I wish to speak about the Middle East before October 2023 - the violence at the hands of Israeli colonists in occupied Palestine; the systematic functioning of Israeli apartheid; and how Palestinians are...

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

Sinéad Gibney: Today has been very interesting to draw together some of the very different strands that we all prioritise. I still have real major concerns about the regulatory framework itself and how it is going to operate and will have some questions about all of this and a little bit about the witnesses' council. In some ways, the council has been given an inherently impossible job to do. It is just...

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

Sinéad Gibney: Dr. Scanlon previously mentioned that we did not legislate or regulate effectively to deal with algorithms being so rage baiting. What would have been the regulation that would have worked there?

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

Sinéad Gibney: Age verification. That is the only thing.

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

Sinéad Gibney: I am aware. I do not agree that it works. I think it punishes the user rather than the platform.

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

Sinéad Gibney: Which ultimately is profit, right?

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

Sinéad Gibney: The user is the product.

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

Sinéad Gibney: The business model is inherently problematic.

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

Sinéad Gibney: Is there anyway to backtrack on that? Otherwise, we are just baking in a system that is going to deal with a flawed premise.

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

Sinéad Gibney: On the sycophantic slip-up, for example, does Dr. Scanlon think that having the regulatory framework that is being suggested, including the observatory and even the AI office she referred to, would have stopped it? Surely the Open AI systems are not going to be any better than those, or are they?

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

Sinéad Gibney: Would it be possible to pause it?

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

Sinéad Gibney: Could we pause it?

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

Sinéad Gibney: That is what I am trying to say. I encourage the council to ask for the resources it needs to be effective, because we really need it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the witnesses for coming to the committee again. I wish to discuss the relationship between the Department and the Arts Council. A lot of people from the arts community have come to me expressing concern about the change of name, which to some people might seem a small piece, but for a lot of people it is symbolic. That, combined with what seems now to be quite a public row,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I will get into governance probably for the rest of my time. I appreciate Mr. Ó Coigligh said Ms Brennan will carry out a review but I would have thought that what we air in this committee could inform that review and there might be issues. I come at this as somebody who in my previous role was the director and chief commissioner of IHREC, which is essentially the chair and CEO role of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: That is my point. The Department of public expenditure says "No". When the Department itself does not want to say "No", it says that the Department of public expenditure says "No". There was a risk associated with not allocating seniority to this role. A decision was made not to give the Arts Council a principal officer but to give it a higher executive officer. That, arguably, resulted...