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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does this intersect in any way with the occupied territories Bill? Is there a conversation between the two Departments to ensure that this legislation, if it becomes law, will in no way undermine the occupied territories Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: My next questions are for Ms Gomez. I know it is not covered within this Bill and I broadly support the intent of the Bill, but I have always struggled with 18 being the age at which adult culpability is formed. I am especially thinking of young people who may have any sort of additional needs, such as intellectual disabilities. We create exceptions at the age of 12 regarding some crimes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Schemes of National Cyber Security Bill 2024, Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) Bill 2025 and Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Regarding the expungement of convictions, it is sometimes an uncomfortable conversation for people to have when we think about cases of say ten-, 11- or 12-year olds who have potentially taken a life. Other convictions will come off a person's record if they do not reoffend on release. As Ms Gomez said, children have greater chances of rehabilitation. However, in certain categories of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I welcome the Minister of State. On the digital sandbox, currently there is a digital divide. There is a literacy divide and a digital literacy divide on top of that. If those who are behind in digital literacy do not have the literacy levels to engage in the testing of different innovations or technologies within a sandbox, and if there is a divide in the interaction with what happens...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: How does the sandbox protect against the vulnerabilities or the inequities in-built into financial institutions and so on? If people are not proficient enough to engage, how does a sandbox work when only those who are either privileged enough or proficient enough are able to engage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: The testing of it would potentially have either bias or inadequacies in it. Does it risk having inequity built into it if we are testing particular technologies or innovations within the sandbox but have a cohort of people who cannot participate in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It is about how to get those data sets in and how to participate in it. On the EU digital charter, I read a quote from the Minister of State of the Department on encouraging the different sectors to sign up to the charter. She mentioned community leaders. What is meant by community leaders in the context of the charter? Who does the Minister of State see as community leaders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does the Minister of State see community services as part of the charter and what the charter needs to consider?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I am more thinking about historically, when, say, community services and addiction services introduced customer relationship models, CRMs, used for sales. Addiction services had eCASS specifically, but community services really struggled with that administrative burden of even being able to use technology that was a CRM. My fear is that while SMEs and businesses are taken into account, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It is not only the Minister of State necessarily. It is the conversation generally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: How will the Department measure and report on the closing of the digital skills gap? When we look at literacy, and that is the only thing I can compare it to, people think that DEIS has closed the literacy gap. It has not. Literacy increased across the whole nation, regardless of what demographic people were from, but the gap in literacy did not actually decrease. Does the Department have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It might need some indicators and measurements on whether that is being achieved.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I am looking for clarification in respect of Government amendment No. 2. At paragraph (c), it states, "The Minister, on being satisfied that no application has been made under subsection (1) for a period of not less than three years, may, by order, appoint a day on which this subsection shall cease to have effect." Is my understanding correct that even through the time for a review will...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Would it not just lie idle then? If that is put in, it could cause problems.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: That clarifies the first question.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 6: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on Caranua 7. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas reviewing the functions of Caranua, examining, inter alia: (a) the adequacy of healthcare, educational and financial supports provided to survivors; (b) the...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: This amendment is related to but an amended version of the amendment we tabled on Committee Stage looking for a report to be drawn up. We have further refined the proposal to be specific to Caranua so that it does not take in other institutions. To paraphrase, the response was that the Minister cannot take in a report that takes in other institutions. This is a new amendment to take that...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Could I just hear that again? Is the Minister saying that the yearly report from Caranua looks very specifically at the use of waivers?