Results 101-120 of 1,342 for speaker:James Geoghegan

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered expanding the student Leap card (details supplied) to those enrolled in online colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54506/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Programmes (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the publication of the National Clustering Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54502/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 180. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline any plans to reform the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund evaluation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider a community media fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (9 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54504/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (8 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he acknowledges that there is significant variation across local authorities in the way they enforce vacant sites legislation; the steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities apply the legislation in a uniform manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53904/25]

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

James Geoghegan: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the public consultation for review of exempted development received submissions advocating for the introduction of a statutory exemption from planning permission for the installation of electric vehicle charging arms on public footpaths (details supplied); his views on applying such a planning permission exemption if the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: My apologies for having to step away but it is one of those days. I thank all the witnesses for being here. I was here for all of their opening statements and some of the exchanges in between. Again, apologies if these types of questions have been asked already. There is a universal theme that we are hearing and learning about in the widespread biases when it comes to AI that clearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: All of the witnesses have succinctly outlined the regulatory gaps in this space and, equally, some of the good regulation that has been put in place in these areas and how it is going to be enforced. Do they have any sense of how the companies themselves are grappling with these biases that are being identified and are emerging? It is not in their interest that there be biases. Presumably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Dr. Begley has touched on a really interesting point that I was going to ask about. That is self-evident. I have witnessed it and observed it myself. To take one example of an event, although it is not a disabilities event, Pride has always been supported by a large number of corporates in Ireland, in Dublin in particular, and some of those corporates did not support it this year. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I will close on this point, which I have made a few times. It is all the more reason Ireland has to be a really strong leader in this space when it comes to the implementation of the regulations that will flow from the AI Act, its implementation, the establishment of the national AI office and all the relevant competent authorities because when it comes to regulation, certainty is where you...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank all the witnesses for appearing today. I agree when Ms Duggan says her agency is carrying out some of the most important work in the State but that is why it has to be held to the highest possible standards. The case of the two missing children that has occupied discussion the length and breadth of the country has horrified everyone. Rightly or wrongly, it has brought into question...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: My time is limited.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Dr. Muldoon has publicly stated in respect of Kyran and Daniel that there need to be ways to publish reports that do not impede the Garda investigation. Learnings should not compromise an investigation. There should be engagement with An Garda Síochána. What does Ms Duggan say to the child ombudsman's comments?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: He was explicitly talking about the reports carried out into Kyran and Daniel.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I will just stop-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: In the aftermath of those cases, the Minister, Deputy Foley, commissioned Tusla or an external agency to carry out a review into the Covid welfare checks that were taking place. Why did she do that in the wake of these missing children?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Does Ms Duggan agree or accept that the Minister, Deputy Foley, carried out this commission because of these tragic missing children cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Is that a "Yes"? I am sorry; I just did not catch that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: To put the question another way, so often in this State, it is either catastrophe or tragedy that leads to inquiry and change. Would Tusla have carried out this review into these Covid cases but for the tragic circumstances of these missing children?