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

James Geoghegan: I would like to understand the relationship with the competent authorities the Minister of State identified and the supervisory authorities. Will they have their own regulatory sandboxes flowing from them? Will specific Departments have regulatory sandboxes or will there be a Central Bank regulatory sandbox for financial services companies that engage with it and a State regulatory sandbox...

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

James Geoghegan: Where will that one main sandbox come from? Will it be in the Minister of State's Department under the proposed AI office and will there be a CEO of an AI office? What will it look like?

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

James Geoghegan: Is it fair to say no Government decision has been taken yet about which Department the AI office, which will be the one regulatory sandbox, will come from or whether it will be a stand-alone office with a CEO or someone running it? What will it look like? Has a Government decision been taken yet on that point?

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

James Geoghegan: However, the Minister of State is suggesting it might move.

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

James Geoghegan: When it comes to justice, education and all the other issues outside the Department's remit, it will act as a liaison essentially with all those entities. Is that the idea?

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

James Geoghegan: A lot of debate is raging at a European level now about the implementing regulations flowing from the AI Act. Do member states and Irish officials engage in deciding what the implementing regulation will look like and how it will be implemented or will that be done at a European level? What is the level of engagement?

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

James Geoghegan: Finally, one of the questions I put to the chair of the AI council when she was before us was this suggestion, which Senator Dee Ryan took up there, that during the EU Presidency, Ireland would host an EU AI summit similar to what President Macron did. It would be slightly different in the sense that it would give Ireland an opportunity to showcase that we have our regulatory house in order,...

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

James Geoghegan: I thank the Minister of State.

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

James Geoghegan: Is the AI office being established by existing primary or secondary legislation or are new regulations being issued? Regarding the remit, if it is done by regulation or otherwise, will the Minister of State commit to engaging with the committee on what the remit will look like before the entity itself is established?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Priorities (8 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: 88. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the priorities of his Department’s housing and infrastructure unit [32279/25]

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

James Geoghegan: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand the number of third level places related to therapies in the disability sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37651/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the witnesses for attending. Ms Nugent said that in hindsight, CHI should have engaged with the Comptroller and Auditor General and the NTPF on these issues. Ms Hardiman has confirmed that the report was not furnished to the HSE and mentioned the loose language that was used in a letter to the Minister for Health regarding the level of engagement with the HSE on the matters...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Regarding the Garda referral, Ms Nugent is familiar with what the threshold is for referral. I presume it is under the Criminal Justice Act 2011. Ms Nugent has said that CHI should have referred it to the Comptroller and Auditor General, the NTPF and the HSE. Should it have referred it to An Garda Síochána as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Just to be clear, it is the job of An Garda Síochána to investigate matters. There is a report and the threshold is exceptionally low. Ms Nugent has been very clear, in hindsight, on the others. Should it have been referred to An Garda Síochána, all things being equal, right now.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: I am not talking about the legal advice. I am asking Ms Nugent's opinion. It is not about legal advice. It is about the facts on the reports, the information in front of Ms Nugent. She has been exceptionally clear that more should have been done in every other entity. What about An Garda Síochána? What is Ms Nugent's own view?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: That is not the question. Should the report have been referred to An Garda Síochána or not? Yes or no?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: That is not my question. It is really a yes-no question. Should it have been referred or not? The witness has been very clear-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: No, it should not have been referred. Okay. It is a bit of a whitewash in terms of the approach adopted under Ms Hardiman's reign in respect of all of these issues. The current CEO has made clear a whole host of entities were not appropriately engaged with, leaving aside the Garda Síochána issue. Why did Ms Hardiman commission this report in the first instance?