Results 181-200 of 573 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 217. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department's understanding of the scope and limitations of "strengthening international security" as justification for deployment of members of the Defence Forces overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31774/25]

Negotiations on an Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Motion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: It is the manner of communication around it.

Negotiations on an Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Motion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: As Deputy Gannon outlined, the Social Democrats will not be supporting the motion. I will outline three clear reasons that is the case. First, it is demonstrative of virtue signalling and performative cruelty, which has not crept into our system but has been recently exposed as being in our system. Second, it is a solution without a problem. I will outline some of the problems we could be...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We still have six minutes left.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: As did my colleague Deputy Gannon, I want to address the reaction to my use yesterday in the Chamber of the word "complicit". The Taoiseach had a very strong reaction to it. I want to be clear about why I use this word. Maybe a better word to describe the Central Bank and its role is "involvement". Perhaps this would make it easier for people to understand it. The Central Bank is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank all the witnesses for being here and for their statements. Apologies that I was a couple of minutes late. My first couple of questions are for the Arts Council. Nearly all mentions of the project under discussion today are redacted from the minutes that are available on the Arts Council's website. In nearly all of the minutes for meetings held during the most contentious period...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The Department was fully informed the whole way through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does Mr. Ó Coigligh have anything to add to the second part of my question, what actions were taken on foot of those revelations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: What actions were taken, though? I looked at the report, but what were the actions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Thank you. I am going to leave it there, because I have a few more issues to delve into. Either Ms McGrath or Ms Kennelly made a point of questioning the appropriateness of expectations of small expert agencies leading on complex IT projects. It was also stated that one of the explanations for the project management failure was that the Council did not have and was unable to secure expert...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The Arts Council was also in a position to engage the OGCIO via its parent Department at any stage in the design and management of the project. Why was that not done until after the surfacing of the total failure of the project and the associated financial cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Speaking of past projects, has the Arts Council done an audit of other significant projects, IT based or otherwise, during the past six years to identify whether any other projects were subject to significant overspends or write-downs or did not result in a functional result?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Okay. Who was the decision-maker, or decision-makers, who decided not to take the off-the-shelf IT solution in the first place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Sorry, I am under pressure for time. Was there an internal decision-maker who decided, with all of that consultation, to not go with an off-the-shelf solution?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Of the board or somebody internally, who was the decision-maker who put this forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Okay, apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: On the HEO appointment, did Ms Kennelly seek sanction for a higher grade initially?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 40. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a list of all missions since 2006 that Ireland participated in which were not established by the UN but received a UN Mandate, by year, number of troops deployed, and purpose of mission, in tabular form. [31105/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 41. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a list of all missions, including those which were authorised under section 3 of the Defence Amendment Act 2006, since 2006 that Ireland participated in which did not have a UN mandate, by year, number of troops deployed, and purpose of the mission, in tabular form. [31106/25]