Results 61-80 of 758 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Artificial Intelligence (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 166. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in tabular form. [38627/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to regulate the usage of delivery drones in residential areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39062/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether his Department has conducted any scoping exercises or research into the impact of drone usage on residential and urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39063/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 415. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding put in place for the establishment of an AI observatory; whether any of that funding has been drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39102/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 416. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the establishment of an AI office; whether this office will be an independent body; and the remit the office will have. [39103/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 424. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contact his Department has had with social media companies over the potential for AI chatbots on social media platforms to generate antisemitic or racist content; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39470/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 427. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland was supportive or critical of the ultimate position taken by the EU Council on the Omnibus package at the recent EU Council meeting regarding the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39698/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 428. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland raised the issue of harmonised civil liability, the need for enforcement of climate action plans, the deviation from a risk based approach, and provisions for stakeholder and trade union engagement during the adoption of the Council’s General Approach on the CSDDD as part of the EU simplification package; if not,...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a scourge on our society that continues to grow. I commend the focus the Minister's predecessor brought to this issue in her term of office as Minister for Justice and the establishment of Cuan as an agency, but we have so much work to do in the Minister's portfolio in the justice sector to continue to equip the courts and front-line services to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Many of us in this Chamber use sport as a form of escapism. For those 33 kids who we are talking about from the West Bank, this is a potential escape from hell, a living hell that has rained down on them for 20 months at the hands of the Israeli genocide. It gives them a sliver of hope in their darkest hour. At the last minute, the Government has shattered their dreams and tried to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: It has until Monday to sort it out. What is the Government going to do to help these children get here and give them back that sliver of hope?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Everything is in order.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the course of action he plans to take should the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement continue to be blocked at EU Council level, despite clear evidence of the breach of the human rights provisions of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38292/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Consular Services (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I welcome that the Department will meet with Heather, her legal team and her brother-in-law, who is assisting her. When I wrote to the Minister about this matter on 13 May, I received a reply similar to what the Minister has just outlined, that is, that the responsibility for this case lies with the British consulate. Heather is an Irish citizen, as we have established. She is a victim of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Consular Services (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Speed is of the essence because they have reached their wits' end with support from the UK. That is why Heather has turned to Ireland, essentially, for help. At the 93rd session of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2022, it found Ryan Cornelius to be arbitrarily detained. There were massive procedural issues with the original conviction in 2008. There are a huge number of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Consular Services (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who is married to an Irish citizen and has been detained arbitrarily in the UAE for the past 17 years; the steps his Department is taking to provide consular assistance and seek his release from arbitrary detention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38291/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Consular Services (10 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Is the Tánaiste's Department aware of the case of Ryan Cornelius, who is married to an Irish citizen and has been detained arbitrarily in the UAE for the past 17 years? What steps is it taking to provide consular assistance to Mrs. Cornelius and to seek Ryan's release from arbitrary detention?