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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: In this budget, the Government has clearly prioritised big business interests and big developers over ordinary people, ordinary families and ordinary businesses. It is a "McBudget". It is hard to swallow what has been put forward, particularly when the Government had the chance to lift 40,000 children out of poverty, help families who are struggling by providing targeted energy credits,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank everyone for being here. I am sorry I missed the opening statements. I had another engagement. I am delighted to hear the contributions throughout. I will drill down further into privacy. It is an area I have some of the biggest concerns about. It is a different situation for people with disabilities when they give personal information to screen readers and other applications....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Dr. Begley mentioned the CRPD but we do not have a date scheduled for the next examination for Ireland, do we?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Do we?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The public sector duty was mentioned in an earlier contribution and I was really glad it was referenced because I do not feel we are integrating our human rights and equality concerns and the duty itself into our attitude to AI policy. Our strategy makes barely any reference to fundamental rights and no reference at all to equality. How do we play catch-up in this space? What would a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: They are just so lengthy, though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We know how long it takes to get to anything and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: That description of the AI Act that I just read out there, does Ms Olhausen share similar concerns that it is not strong enough?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Offices (8 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 190. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the staffing resources in the AI office that will be allocated to the office's planned regulatory function, in comparison to the other functions of the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54213/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Offices (8 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of staffing resources being allocated to the new AI office, by grade; whether there is a timeline for filling those roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54214/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Offices (8 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to create the necessary independence in regulatory functions of the new AI office under article 70 of the EU AI Act; the way in which the work of staff tasked with regulatory functions is being separated from those with functions to do with promoting business; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Offices (8 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department is using the services of consultancy firms in setting up the new AI office; and if so, the amount spent on fees to consultancy firms to date. [54216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Offices (8 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 194. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the public sector duty is being integrated into the work of the new AI office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54217/25]

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I wish to make three main points in my contribution: building defects are a legacy of lack of oversight from this Government; it is clear the parameters around redress are wrong and we are leaving people behind so let us fix it; and, finally, the burden for fixing this problem has been placed until now, on people who did not do anything wrong. Building defects are a legacy of a lack of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: This morning I hosted a briefing with Uplift, ICCL and the Hope and Courage Collective. We talked about the dangers we all face online, including the security risks, the threats to democracy and the threats to our children, all posed by the lack of regulation of social media giants. We do not enforce the laws that we have. We were told by experts this morning that the perception...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I apologise for missing the Minister's opening statement, but I have read his written submission. I want to speak to the IFCO Revised Estimates on a couple of different angles, first on the independence of the organisation and, second, its revenue-generating potential. I come at this as somebody who established and led an independent State agency, namely, the Irish Human Rights and...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does the Minister recognise that the structure of it has changed, because it has?

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am speaking to a structural change, and I believe we have an oversight role that I do not think should be dismissed in that manner.