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Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 10: In page 25, after line 37, to insert the following: “Report on provision of supports to bereaved children 22. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas regarding the adequacy of supports provided to bereaved children, with particular reference to the children of lone-parent families,...

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: This is a big Bill. I will focus on one part of it that stood out. Mr. McGill may be able to tell me if I understand this right. Does the Bill create an offence? If so, is it an administrative offence only or are there offences higher than that? If an entity does not adhere to what is set down by the competent authority or officer and does something that is not in line with that, an...

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: A competent authority could apply to the High Court to restrict senior management from their duties.

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: To put this in context and to better understand, if we take what happened with the NTMA last week as an example, would this Bill create a different framework from that which currently exists in the area of phishing scams or is cybersecurity different from being scammed, in a sense? Are they part of the same suite of areas?

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: That is grand. Will Mr. McGill provide an example of non-adherence?

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: Is there a scale proportional to the size of the company or industry? With smaller organisations, there is obviously a cost associated with bringing cybersecurity levels up to the requisite standard. Is funding available for those smaller companies or what way does that work?

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: That is perfect. I thank Mr. McGill.

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: I will start with Mr. Bruen. I know this is to give effect to an EU directive, and Mr. Bruen spoke about this Bill bringing consistency in a sense. However, to look at what is currently on the restrictive measures list and why they are on it, I went through the map of EU sanctions that is available online. Even under this Bill, the EU, and in some cases the EU and the UN, have arms...

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: Beyond the criminal offences and money laundering, when we look at other areas such as trade, imports and exports - the Bill also covers a lot of other things - what mechanisms are in place currently or will be put in place under this Bill to provide oversight in terms of mapping right now? China, for example, has been on the weapons list since 1989. How does Ireland ensure that nobody in...

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: Will there be resources to oversee that level of investigation?

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?