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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I think they need to be flipped.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am going to move on, to give Ms Loftus and Ms Casey a chance, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does Ms Loftus believe the EU AI Act facilitates that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank Ms Loftus. I will give Ms Casey an opportunity to jump in as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I apologise in advance for my rudeness because I will have to ask the questions and then run. I must be over on the other side of the campus in three minutes. I will watch back the answers. Today has been hugely helpful. It is clear there are ways in which we consider the needs of older people and there are ways in which we do not. This area is a huge timebomb. Recently we saw with the...

National Social Enterprise Policy: Statements (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am delighted to have this opportunity and a little surprised that there is not more interest from speakers across the House on this really important issue. I will cover some of the things we talk about when we think about what a social enterprise is, the contributions they make to society and to our economy and then some of the gaps that I believe still exist in this strategy. I really...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Last weekend I was delighted to attend a ceremony celebrating a centenary of light, 100 years of LauraLynn providing palliative care for children, celebrating beyond the establishment of LauraLynn to the legacy bodies that it worked with, the children’s Sunshine home and, indeed, Ella Webb who started treating children with rickets in 1925. Tá mé comh bhródúil. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I hope that is the case because, even in the previous answer to Deputy Conway-Walsh, we hear this emphasis on streamlining and making more efficient the administrative burden on businesses. However, this is a really serious area and one that needs to go in the other direction. In data released to me in answer to a parliamentary question, figures showed significant increases in the value and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether there are concerns in his Department regarding due diligence on the granting of licences for dual use goods, particularly in light of plans to expand Ireland's role in the dual use market, per the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50822/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: In the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity the Minister outlines progressing the interests of Irish SMEs in the dual-use area, specifically citing defence research and development and the European Defence Fund. Is the Department equipped to deal with an increase in licence applications and the due diligence required to facilitate the dual-use licence system?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the Minister of State for the detail. My key concern in this area is that while the Department continues to emphasise dual use as, including perfectly legitimate ICT products, it also emphasises military applications and plans to extend this industry in Ireland. I welcome that applications are risk assessed but with this emphasis on military and defence applications of these goods...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the advances his Department have made in preparing an action plan for collective bargaining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50797/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the means by which workers' rights will be advanced in tandem with the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity, particularly in light of previous commitments around the living wage, paid sick leave, sub-minimum rates of pay and the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration on the development of a single application procedure for immigration and employment permission, mentioned in the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50798/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to attract non-energy intensive and environmentally sustainable industries and investment to Ireland, in line with efforts to decarbonise and meet our 2030 climate commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50799/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (25 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 75. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to support indigenous SMEs to adapt to US tariffs and to insulate themselves from the impact of trade disruptions like tariffs in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50800/25]

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I welcome the opportunity to discuss this topic this evening, but like others I am frustrated, because it is another instance where we discuss something yet the regulatory vacuum still exists. This is our generation's version of big tobacco and it is preying on our children. Big tobacco is marketing to children on purpose and it is no secret the sale of e-cigarettes or vapes has boomed in...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. If we were to look for another way to express the concept of storing up problems, I do not think there are better words than "child poverty" and "child homelessness" to capture it. The lasting inequality and lifelong implications the Government is storing up because of its failure to deal with these crises will live with us for...