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

Lynn Ruane: Does the Minister of State see community services as part of the charter and what the charter needs to consider?

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

Lynn Ruane: I am more thinking about historically, when, say, community services and addiction services introduced customer relationship models, CRMs, used for sales. Addiction services had eCASS specifically, but community services really struggled with that administrative burden of even being able to use technology that was a CRM. My fear is that while SMEs and businesses are taken into account, when...

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

Lynn Ruane: It is not only the Minister of State necessarily. It is the conversation generally.

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

Lynn Ruane: How will the Department measure and report on the closing of the digital skills gap? When we look at literacy, and that is the only thing I can compare it to, people think that DEIS has closed the literacy gap. It has not. Literacy increased across the whole nation, regardless of what demographic people were from, but the gap in literacy did not actually decrease. Does the Department have...

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

Lynn Ruane: It might need some indicators and measurements on whether that is being achieved.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I am looking for clarification in respect of Government amendment No. 2. At paragraph (c), it states, "The Minister, on being satisfied that no application has been made under subsection (1) for a period of not less than three years, may, by order, appoint a day on which this subsection shall cease to have effect." Is my understanding correct that even through the time for a review will...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Would it not just lie idle then? If that is put in, it could cause problems.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: That clarifies the first question.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 6: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on Caranua 7. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas reviewing the functions of Caranua, examining, inter alia: (a) the adequacy of healthcare, educational and financial supports provided to survivors; (b) the...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: This amendment is related to but an amended version of the amendment we tabled on Committee Stage looking for a report to be drawn up. We have further refined the proposal to be specific to Caranua so that it does not take in other institutions. To paraphrase, the response was that the Minister cannot take in a report that takes in other institutions. This is a new amendment to take that...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Could I just hear that again? Is the Minister saying that the yearly report from Caranua looks very specifically at the use of waivers?

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Okay, that is grand.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: The Minister said that removing the use of waivers was a Government decision. This is Government legislation. It is not unusual for us to look to a Minister who is taking responsibility for a Department, and who is in government and bringing Government legislation, and make the assumption that there would be conversations and decisions made by the Government around whether using a waiver is...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: But the waiver is implied.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: But for the majority of people, the waiver is implied.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: So, given the fact that the waiver is implied, it is part of this scheme and should form part of the discussion. It has been raised time and again as an issue for people in terms of what we have learned and what has worked. It is basically a contract. For a contract to stand, we are able to legislate to be able to remove the legality of having such a waiver in the first place. It creates...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I second the amendment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I apologise for not being here for the opening statement, but I read it in detail. I had a clash. I will go through my specific questions for each individual and I will go through all the questions before people respond because of time. I will start with Dr. Scanlon first. She has spoken about the ethical implications of AI. How, in everyday language, does the council plan to ensure...