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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: What engagement has Dr. Muldoon had with the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and Minister of State with responsibility for AI since being designated a fundamental rights body, which I believe was a few months ago now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am running out of time. Within the youth advisory panel discussions, do the witnesses see or detect a difference in how their generation, although it is not homogenous as a group, views privacy compared with those of us in the older generation? Do the witnesses think they treat it differently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank all the witnesses for being here. I am really enjoying today's session so far. I will focus my four minutes specifically on the ombudsman's office and the youth advisory panel. Hopefully, when we get a second round, I will come back in for the other organisations. Starting off with Dr. Muldoon, I have a few hopefully rapid-fire questions before I then get into some more discursive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Excellent. Finally, Dr. Muldoon may not have the answer to my next question here today but perhaps his office can look into this. From his interaction with Departments and State agencies at the moment, is he aware of or does he suspect the use or deployment of any AI tools with rights holders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The difficulty is that in other jurisdictions, such as the Netherlands, for example, there is a register. We do not have that here. This might be a topic I come back to other witnesses with, particularly around social work. Without that register it is kind of up to us, as citizens, to identify the use of AI. Moving on to the two youth advisory panel representatives, I thank them so much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I want to pick up on an issue Grace mentioned in her opening comments. We talked about critical thinking and how AI can become a crutch. She also mentioned creativity. Will she elaborate on the dangers and benefits she sees in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the witnesses for being here. Some of the contributions from the beginning of this session are particularly stark with regard to the risks the witnesses have outlined. I am keen to dig into them a little bit more. We have AI as a stand-alone issue, if you like, or something that permeates in very different ways. Before we had AI, we already had a very divisive, polarised and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank Dr. Bourke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am over my time but does Mr. Joyce feel that AI has already turbocharged that or is likely to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I have been critical of the balance I see coming through from the Government in terms of actions. There is discussion around the risks versus the benefits of AI but, for example, I would be critical that that balance is not there in the programme for Government. I am keen to hear the witnesses’ analysis of policy development in this area. Do they think the Government is getting the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Anybody, but perhaps we could begin with Ms Cooney and Ms Daly.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 250. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an assessment was carried out on the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity to ensure its compliance with public sector duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50139/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 251. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the completion of an Action Plan on Collective Bargaining is not a priority action under the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity, particularly as collective bargaining coverage in Ireland is far below EU averages and the impending deadlines for establishing an action plan; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the resources being provided to ensure transparency, enforcement and compliance in the sale of dual use products, in view of commitment 20 of the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity to facilitate growth in the area, and the additional burden it will place on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Artists' Remuneration (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 351. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he will commit to expanding and extending basic income for the arts in Budget 2026, in light of the publication of the two-year report which has confirmed previous findings around the sustained positive impact on recipients’ lives, sectoral retention, and time committed to artistic practice; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Artists' Remuneration (23 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 352. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he has engaged with the Department of Social Protection on barriers to artists in receipt of disability allowance participating in the basic income for the arts scheme; the means by which this may be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49976/25]

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I listened to the Minister's opening comments. I lost track of the number of times he said the phrase "rules-based system". In talking about international protection, some of the words I did not hear in his comments, or when the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, provided more focus in his comments, were "compassion", "trauma-informed", "gender-specific accommodation" or any of the actual...