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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: I am out of time. Thank you so much.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Is that a "Yes"? I am sorry; I just did not catch that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: To put the question another way, so often in this State, it is either catastrophe or tragedy that leads to inquiry and change. Would Tusla have carried out this review into these Covid cases but for the tragic circumstances of these missing children?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Is Tusla worried and anxious that other missing children who have not as yet been identified as missing will now be identified as a result of this review?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: What is frightening to me - I say this as a parent of three kids - and the public is that, only in June, the chair of Tusla, writing in the foreword of the annual report, said that after ten years, the agency had never been better equipped to meet the complex challenges rushing towards it. How does that statement stack up with what is now being carried out? Ms Duggan did not say it...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I do not mean for this to be provocative but is there an acceptable level of missing children? Surely that is the worst possible outcome when it comes to the care of children, that the children themselves go missing. Is there anything worse?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: How then could it have been said in a report only a couple of months ago that we were in the best place we had been for the past ten years? Ms Duggan sees how it is difficult to understand or reconcile those two statements and the reality of what we are seeing.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I want to bring Ms Duggan to the four cases the Comptroller and Auditor General highlighted in his report on page 24. Ms Duggan will be familiar with those cases as they have been summarised. They all related to certain events that commenced in 2015. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Did those events relate to missing children?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: What did those events relate to?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Is Ms Duggan in a position to furnish to this committee those High Court orders in each of those cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: May I make that request on behalf of the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: On the third case, I acknowledge what Ms Duggan has said about being bound by a court order - I am not asking her to break that - but it was obviously an extremely serious issue that arose. Tusla carried out an external agency report, which cost it over €400,000. The report was subsequently quashed by the High Court. Somebody went to the High Court and said whatever was in that...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I just have eight seconds.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: For the avoidance of all doubt, there are no circumstances in which Ms Duggan can say, regarding any of the orders or settlement agreements she was a participant in for these four cases, anything more than that these were service issues. Is that the absolute maximum she is permitted to tell the committee about those cases? She cannot say anything more than "service issues".

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: That is in respect of all four cases.

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

James Geoghegan: My apologies for having to step away but it is one of those days. I thank all the witnesses for being here. I was here for all of their opening statements and some of the exchanges in between. Again, apologies if these types of questions have been asked already. There is a universal theme that we are hearing and learning about in the widespread biases when it comes to AI that clearly...

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

James Geoghegan: All of the witnesses have succinctly outlined the regulatory gaps in this space and, equally, some of the good regulation that has been put in place in these areas and how it is going to be enforced. Do they have any sense of how the companies themselves are grappling with these biases that are being identified and are emerging? It is not in their interest that there be biases. Presumably...

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

James Geoghegan: Dr. Begley has touched on a really interesting point that I was going to ask about. That is self-evident. I have witnessed it and observed it myself. To take one example of an event, although it is not a disabilities event, Pride has always been supported by a large number of corporates in Ireland, in Dublin in particular, and some of those corporates did not support it this year. That is...

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

James Geoghegan: I will close on this point, which I have made a few times. It is all the more reason Ireland has to be a really strong leader in this space when it comes to the implementation of the regulations that will flow from the AI Act, its implementation, the establishment of the national AI office and all the relevant competent authorities because when it comes to regulation, certainty is where you...