Results 261-280 of 1,039 for speaker:James Geoghegan
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [30254/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: I thank the Chair. I wish him well in his role. I look forward to working with all of my colleagues on a cross-party basis on understanding AI and how it is currently impacting this State, other states and sectors on a cross-sectoral basis. Ireland is uniquely placed to play a leading role in the regulatory discussion that is taking place and potentially in the adaptation of AI within our...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: I thank the witnesses for coming to the inaugural AI committee meeting. It is greatly appreciated. I will ask a general question that perhaps all the witnesses could give their tuppence worth on. President Macron held a big AI summit, to which the response was that Europe for too long had been about regulation and we needed to focus more on innovation if we were going to keep up with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: I see Professor Smeaton is on the AI advisory council's working group for education.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: He may have seen recent reports where a representative from OpenAI spoke about ChatGPT having been deployed in secondary schools in Estonia and how, following discussions the company had with the Government, the intention is to introduce this technology in Irish secondary schools on a pilot basis. Has this initiative come across the desks of the witnesses? Has the working group, in its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: In the context of AI deployment in the education sector, which areas has the working group looked at to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: I have ten seconds left. What fears about AI keep Professor Smeaton awake at night?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: I thought I would have four minutes, so one minute is going to be challenging. Perhaps this is more a comment than a question. I found the point made about search engines interesting in that we all thought there were going to be lots of them. We used to use AltaVista and the world ended up using Google, but the witnesses do not think this is going to happen in the LLM world. In common...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: 128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the recently published National Climate Risk Assessment. [30252/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (10 Jun 2025)
James Geoghegan: 1244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will consider expanding the access and inclusion (AIMS) model to support children below the current age of eligibility which is two years and eight months; the equivalent supports that exist for children who otherwise would qualify for AIMS but do not meet the age eligibility requirement; and if she...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)
James Geoghegan: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the National Development Plan Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28161/25]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 May 2025)
James Geoghegan: The Chair will be aware that I wrote to him on Monday seeking that we bring back the CEO of Children's Health Ireland, CHI, at the earliest possible opportunity. The committee is now in agreement that we will write to the CEO of CHI to ask a number of questions about the revelations by The Sunday Times about the National Treatment Purchase Fund. My question in this instance is for the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) James Geoghegan: I thank the witnesses. On 4 February 2025, Ms Kennelly and Ms McGrath met the current Minister and the minutes of that meeting record that the Minister inquired of both the chair and the director whether either they or their predecessors had discussed with the previous Minister or the Secretary General the business transformation programme subsequent to its commencement, to which both...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) James Geoghegan: Leaving all that aside, on the specific point did Ms Kennelly reply "No" to that question as to whether-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) James Geoghegan: But the question is about the Minister or the Secretary General. Did Ms Kennelly tell the Minister or the Secretary General, or their-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) James Geoghegan: To be absolutely clear, Ms Kennelly is not disputing that she did not tell the previous Minister or the Secretary General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) James Geoghegan: Okay. That is what the minutes say so I am not sure what Ms Kennelly is disputing in respect of the minutes.