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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the Minister of State for the detail. My key concern in this area is that while the Department continues to emphasise dual use as, including perfectly legitimate ICT products, it also emphasises military applications and plans to extend this industry in Ireland. I welcome that applications are risk assessed but with this emphasis on military and defence applications of these goods...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I hope that is the case because, even in the previous answer to Deputy Conway-Walsh, we hear this emphasis on streamlining and making more efficient the administrative burden on businesses. However, this is a really serious area and one that needs to go in the other direction. In data released to me in answer to a parliamentary question, figures showed significant increases in the value and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Last weekend I was delighted to attend a ceremony celebrating a centenary of light, 100 years of LauraLynn providing palliative care for children, celebrating beyond the establishment of LauraLynn to the legacy bodies that it worked with, the children’s Sunshine home and, indeed, Ella Webb who started treating children with rickets in 1925. Tá mé comh bhródúil. I...

National Social Enterprise Policy: Statements (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am delighted to have this opportunity and a little surprised that there is not more interest from speakers across the House on this really important issue. I will cover some of the things we talk about when we think about what a social enterprise is, the contributions they make to society and to our economy and then some of the gaps that I believe still exist in this strategy. I really...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Security (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether he has been briefed on the potential threats to national security posed by the sale of location data which can then be used to track individuals entering sensitive areas such as military bases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50543/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Security (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps his Department has taken to address the threat of location data being sold online and used to track persons entering and exiting military bases and secure areas, the places they go and live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50544/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and value of successful dual-use export licence applications; and the number of refused applications, by quarter since January 2021, in tabular form. [50767/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions his Department has had with the Data Protection Commission regarding protecting citizens from the misuse of their location data being sold online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action his Department will take regarding the investigation carried out by RTÉ (details supplied) which show that the data of people in Ireland can be used to track the movements of individuals, presenting a threat to their personal safety and right to privacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50541/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department or bodies under his aegis plan to issue guidance on preventing the tracking of location data to women's refuges to ensure the safety of their service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50542/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: What engagement has Dr. Muldoon had with the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and Minister of State with responsibility for AI since being designated a fundamental rights body, which I believe was a few months ago now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am running out of time. Within the youth advisory panel discussions, do the witnesses see or detect a difference in how their generation, although it is not homogenous as a group, views privacy compared with those of us in the older generation? Do the witnesses think they treat it differently?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 29. To ask the Taoiseach the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43668/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Equipment (29 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 30. To ask the Taoiseach whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity, autonomy and crisis management. [43686/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (29 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he or his officials have met with peace activists or experts in the past 12 months; the date and agenda of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (29 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in light of the Hague Group meeting in Colombia, which Ireland attended, and the declaration of 12 countries to end all ties with Israel through the use of their legal and administrative systems, if Ireland is considering making such a commitment; if so, the barriers to doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42293/25]