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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: All right. I thank Mr. Hogan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: None of the cities, including Dublin, is coping well with the population increases and demands. The draft NPF sets out that we will give greater weight to Dublin to cope than we will to other cities. That is what I am reading in this draft. I am reflecting to the witnesses my frustration as someone from the west at not seeing the same kind of infrastructural follow-on from this document as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: It is the first day of the consultation, as I understand, so we are all reading through the document and the various amendments and so on as we go. Is there any reference to the western rail corridor, light rail for regional cities or double-tracking of rail lines to regional cities in the document? I cannot find anything about those in the document. Will the witnesses clarify that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: There is no mention of those specific projects. I want to completely understand this. Mr. Hogan mentioned public transport and the metropolitan transport plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: What about Galway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I will explain where I am going with this point. On page 41, the document states, "To grow to its potential Galway needs to address recent legacy issues arising from urban sprawl and reliance on private cars..." I saw numerous references throughout the document to specific roads, for instance, the N17. I have no issue with that but surely they are also in a transport plan. However, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: There are general points about public transport, with which we can all agree, but it looks like a tick-box exercise when specific roads are pointed out that are also part of a transport plan, yet they are pulled out and put into the document. That makes it a slightly political document, if I may say so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Ceannt Station, for instance, is not mentioned in this document, yet it is being extended from one and a half platforms to five. That is an established project.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I will leave it there. I have made my point. What Mr. Hogan is saying is that we are not going to mention projects that are already happening and we are not going to mention projects that are not already happening when it comes to public transport, but we will mention them when it comes to roads.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I read all of the opening statements in great detail. I thank the witnesses for coming in. This meeting feels like a bit of an exam. It is interesting that AI would have been a single topic many years ago but all of the witnesses have come at it from different angles. They have considered the creativity aspect, how to adjust for people's own writing styles and how teachers can tell if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: That is a very good point. It is about learning about AI and its use. Most of us do not really understand that. Before I read the submissions, I did not understand most of its implications or what the advances might be in the future. Does anybody have any thoughts on the proposition that it is the education system that might need to change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I would say that must have been a challenge for the students when they were doing the project.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: It must be really hard for teachers then, if they are doing the same thing. The students were doing one project once. I have done a BT Young Scientist project and it is a huge challenge, but if a teacher is having to change how they are teaching day-in, day-out, that is much harder than maybe the education system looking 20 years down the line and making the changes now. I thank Ms White...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Yes. It needs to propel them to get to that level that AI has and then go beyond that, in some ways.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Okay. I thank Mr. Meade and Mr. O'Sullivan very much. There are a lot of questions there about the value of assessments and of assessing human beings, but as Mr. O'Sullivan says, part of it is entry to college, which is a really challenging thing to get right. I thank all the students so much. I have really enjoyed the conversation and thank them so much for the work they are doing. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: No. I did write the ultimate one. It was just to get me started. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am just wondering, on another tangent, what the witnesses think doing this project has given them. How will they take the information they learned forward? Do they think they know more than other people about the subject? They obviously do because they have done a lot of work. Is it going to perhaps inform what work they might do in the future? I am interested to hear about that because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: That is brilliant. It is great to hear that. How about the other entrants? The world is their oyster. While this has broadened their horizons, they may do something else entirely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Perhaps as a teacher it could assist with Ms White's own lesson planning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: We will not let them out the door.