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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Does Ms McPhillips agree and acknowledge that the Department has greater technical capacity to carry out age assessments than the Child and Family Agency does, considering the capacity within her Department, the bodies that operate under its aegis, the Garda Commissioner and everything else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Even just carrying out background checks through Interpol or whatever to establish-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Tusla cannot do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: I am not talking about the human element. I am talking about any other background checks that could be carried out in respect of the child who has arrived and claims they have a specific name and age but in fact, if more due diligence was done behind the scenes-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: To return to Ms McPhillips’s point, if Tusla is better at this, why is this responsibility being transferred to the Department under the new Bill?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Tusla can speak for itself, but I was left with the clear impression, one that Tusla shares from reading the transcript of the justice committee, that this is a big concern for Tusla. Tusla is concerned with the number of adults it potentially has mingling in unaccompanied minor settings. It does not feel like it has the necessary capacity to carry out the age assessments that it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: The previous Deputy got two minutes, so the Chair might indulge me. I have one question for Mr. Delaney. Could he provide a copy of the statutory declaration he is referring to in terms of criminality? I refer to the blank one, the one given to commercial providers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Notarised, yes. Can he provide a copy of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Deputy Farrelly asked about the origin of this declaration. Why was it brought in? Was there some specific case of concern about criminality in respect of potential owners that triggered this? Who decided that we needed this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: What does that mean? That is a very generic sentence. Was there something that triggered this at all?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Who advised Mr. Delaney to bring in a statutory declaration? Who is the best practice adviser or where did this come from? This suggestion that we should do statutory declarations in respect of criminality did not fall from the sky.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Can I ask an extra question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: I apologise; I appreciate the opportunity. How many international protection applicants who are the subject of a deportation order have been given a financial contribution to leave? We are going to increase it now. Under the current regime or the previous regime, whatever the monetary amount was, how many people took that up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: Sorry, before the order is signed. What about that category of persons?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) James Geoghegan: How many people have received that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
James Geoghegan: I thank the witnesses. This has been really informative and helpful. One of the things that I keep emphasising at this committee, and it is worth emphasising, is that if you think of China, the United States and Europe, AI is operating in a fully regulated environment in only one of those entities. By "fully", I mean that there is regulation. You can quibble about how that regulation is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
James Geoghegan: The witnesses may have seen that the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation was before the committee last week. They may have read some of its testimony. One of the things the chief information officer highlighted is that they are looking at 195 life events related to 35 services. They are exploring the extent to which AI could assist or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
James Geoghegan: In the absence of that inclusion in the guidelines, does the Mr. Herrick have a legitimate concern that the State, in the example of these life services, would act in a way that would be in breach of fundamental human rights? Would civil servants, in delivering or exploring a service, knowingly or actively breach fundamental human rights obligations just because it is not in the guidelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
James Geoghegan: I thank both witnesses for their presentations. The ICCL said in its submission there is a false dichotomy between regulation and innovation, but is that really true? Ultimately, regulation imposes a burden and impacts on competitiveness. The witnesses are probably familiar with the Draghi report that clearly set out the regulatory burden in Europe negatively impacts research and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
James Geoghegan: As a matter of interest, is Dr. Shrishak saying China is stronger in a regulatory environment in some aspects of AI than Europe?