Results 21-40 of 758 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 10 July 2025, the amount his Department spent on external services from a company (details supplied) to deliver the Digital Contact Centre project. [40562/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 10 July 2025, the total budget for the Digital Contact Centre project; if the project was subject to any cost overruns or delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40563/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount his Department spent on a verification service in the past 12 months (details supplied). [40564/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to issues with users being unable to verify their documents with a service and being unable to get an adequate response from (details supplied) to resolve the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Artificial Intelligence (17 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered introducing a law to make it an offence to use a person’s features to produce artificial intelligence deepfakes, similar to proposals in Germany and Denmark, particularly in relation to the use of this technology to create revenge porn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40642/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Artificial Intelligence (17 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 10 July 2025, if he will provide further details on how artificial intelligence is used to analyse content to produce IT documentation; if this is a new output from his Department or replacing a function previously done by an employee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40561/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (17 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed the proposed increase of student contribution fees and the continuing shortfall in core higher education funding with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40674/25]

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I wish a happy Pride to everybody who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or intersex and anybody who has diverse ranges of sexual identity, gender expression, gender identity and sex characteristics. I would like to focus my comments on one particular community within that, and that is the trans community. I missed the Minister of State's speech but I will look back...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he has taken to advance the Programme for Government commitment to examine ways to facilitate people who are on work permits to move jobs more easily and legally; whether he has brought this to the strategic migration policy unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40154/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people on work permits who have changed employment in the past two years, broken down by month, occupation, and whether they are on a general or critical skills permit, in tabular form. [40168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he is aware of the practice of agencies and employers charging workers recruited from overseas illegitimate recruitment fees in order to secure their employment; whether his Department plans to issue any guidance to permit holders on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40171/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the weekly actual and target average turnaround times for South African visa applicants, broken down by category of visa, for the past three months, in tabular form. [39817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 273. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the unit within her Department that is responsible for alcohol policy outside of the enforcement of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 282. To ask the Minister for Health in view of recent statements from the Tánaiste on pausing the implementation of alcohol labelling, when alcohol labelling will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40034/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I welcome the establishment of this commission of investigation. While I have hope for it I am concerned that while the Commission of Investigation Act 2004 does allow for human rights compliance in the establishment of tribunals, inquiries and commissions of investigation, unfortunately in the two decades since the levels of compliance make a patchwork quilt when it comes to domestic and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: A huge number of residents of Dundrum and nearby locations contacted me recently. They are worried about privacy, noise and disruption and they are worried about drones. After several trials around Dublin and complaints from residents going unaddressed by this Government, a new drone depot is proposed for Dundrum. Let me be clear: I do not blame a company that, in the absence of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: It is not addressing privacy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We need to regulate them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Meanwhile, privacy and noise-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: GAA Palestine insists all of the documentation was in order and yet they were denied visas. It has since been dismissed by the Department of Justice.