Results 41-60 of 338 for speaker:Naoise Ó Cearúil

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [34039/25]

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I congratulate the Minister of State on her elevation. She has taken to the role and shown a great interest in artificial intelligence and her wider remit. I thank her for her engagement with me on different policy proposals, particularly on a national AI office, so I welcome her comment that it is an ambition to establish a national AI office. It needs to be a stand-alone office, similar...

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: It does. I thank the Minister of State for the clarification. Another clarification might be helpful for the committee. There were questions on sandboxes but some members may have misunderstood what is involved.. Sandboxes are essentially a piece of software. Let us take Lotus Notes as an example, which we use here and which is like a CRM system for representations that we get. A...

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: That was not from the Minister of State. The follow-up I have relates to innovation. One concern that has been shared here is the potential for job losses across various sectors. One of those sectors that a lot of people have not been speaking about is the technological sector where a lot of the AI emanates from. My fear is that there will be a brain drain. We have attracted top talent to...

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: On digital literacy, AI is here. There is no getting away from it. There is no pause or stop button. It is about trying to catch up and trying to make sure our citizens can utilise it and not just businesses. Digital literacy is a key aspect of that. I would love to see within the national AI office a key function for digital literacy, particularly around enabling. The local enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to ensure that the construction of the five new higher education buildings aligns with and supports universities' carbon reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to consider Ireland’s potential membership of the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37612/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department is using ongoing data analysis and local knowledge to identify accident-prone areas and focus road safety interventions where they are most needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37253/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to promote safer driving, following the publication of the 2025 ETSC Road Safety Report, which highlights increased road deaths among young people in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 365. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to improve AI literacy on a national level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37376/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address long waiting times for allocation of social housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to address record homelessness figures across Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37196/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 780. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to adequately resource the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine to position Ireland as an international leader in genomics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37254/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 781. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider providing sustainable funding for national physiotherapy services for people with multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37255/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (3 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is taking to address prison overcrowding, in light of recent figures showing that prison capacity stands at 115%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (3 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address delays in processing times for visa applications submitted to the South Africa visa desk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (3 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to implement the National Women in Agriculture Action Plan to support gender equality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected timeline for delivering a farm succession scheme that supports generational renewal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36524/25]

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: The situation in the Middle East, specifically in Gaza and across the occupied Palestinian territories, is beyond tragic; it is catastrophic. Ireland must speak with moral clarity and courage. As I have said before, and as many people in this House have said, what is happening is clearly genocide. Ireland has long supported the two-state solution and advocated for peace but peace...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht teacht isteach anseo inniu. There seems to be a bit of an expectation to have a mystic Minister with some sort of climate crystal ball. We have to live in the real world sometimes. That is why my questions will focus primarily on the modelling used for our carbon budgets. I look at the carbon budget proposal for 2031 to 2035 as well as the 2036...