Results 181-200 of 266 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The multinational tech company Meta has announced a new round of layoffs, with 5% of its workforce under threat. This is in the context of the chief executive of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, abolishing equality, diversity and inclusion programmes, stopping fact checking on the Facebook platform and essentially bending the knee to Trump in the same way we saw Elon Musk do when he took over Twitter....

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank Deputy Coppinger for using Private Members' time to introduce this very important motion and for providing an opportunity to discuss it. I also welcome that the Government will not oppose the motion, although I share the same scepticism and concerns that have been aired by colleagues to the effect that we really need to see action on this issue. This is a scourge on our society. It...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (26 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is developing plans for maintaining essential services, in the interim and longer term, of Irish non-governmental agencies engaged in humanitarian and global health work disrupted by the Presidential executive order by President Trump halting most US humanitarian and global health funding; if this would be done through emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (26 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends utilising the Irish Presidency of the EU to communicate the need for Europe to conduct an immediate review of its policy and actions in relation to the provision of humanitarian and global health funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8642/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (26 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider having Ireland be the 40th country to formally join the UNAID's Global Partnership for Action to eliminate all forms of HIV-related stigma and discrimination and consider this as part of the program for the Irish Presidency of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8643/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social Enterprise Sector (25 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 301. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason grants to social enterprises are not tax-deductible in the same way they are for registered charities; if consideration has been given to changing this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7271/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Artificial Intelligence (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [7052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Artificial Intelligence (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [7051/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artificial Intelligence (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [7056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Artificial Intelligence (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [7050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Artificial Intelligence (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [7057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Artificial Intelligence (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [7055/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Artificial Intelligence (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [7053/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (20 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 319. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department; if any section of her Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if she has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of...

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I congratulate Deputy Smyth on her role, as she said at the beginning of today's discussion, as the first Minister of State with intleacht shaorga in her title. I welcome today's discussion. This is such an important topic in society right now. It will dominate our term of office for the next five years. There is no question that it will be an important part of so many areas of life...

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: As a new TD, I am truly stunned not only that the housing Minister is not here but that there is only one representative on the Government benches when in the media and in the Dáil Chamber, all we hear is that the Government wants solutions from the Opposition. When we offer concrete, well thought-out, researched, evidence-based solutions, this is the showing we get. I come from the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline his Department’s planned response to the US presidential executive order of 31 January 2025, the effect of which is to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6578/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a formal request to the US ambassador that the US side of all joint consortium arrangements with Irish Aid which were in place at 31 January 2025 be honoured in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide figures on all the joint donor consortia or other collaborative arrangements which existed between Irish Aid and the United States Agency for International Development as at 31 January 2025, across the operational spectrum of Ireland’s international development engagement, broken down by country, by financial...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has identified whether there are instances of such multi-donor instruments in which Ireland would be obliged to make up the shortfall for the precipitate cancellation of the United States Agency for International Development contribution; if he will provide an estimate of the budgetary implications thereof, including...