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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I very much agree with Deputy Gannon in this regard for many reasons, and not only the uncertainties we are discussing. Under the general scheme, the Minister can enter contracts for services related to any of his functions under the Act. This means that there is no guarantee that detention facilities or designated asylum border facilities under head 123 will be State-led. What I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: If that is the case, is somebody's movement is prohibited, how do we propose to prohibit that movement? Are we saying there will be more public service prisons to detain people who do not have movement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: We have here something that has to be in place by July 2026, yet we do not know how people will be held, where people will be held and who will run the facilities. We are carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny on something that is quite fictional in a sense. Do the witnesses have any concerns about how detention will play out? We have the places of detention Bill and the Optional Protocol...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: There is no inspector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: In terms of the presumption of minority, the Department mentioned a multidisciplinary approach to assessing the age of a minor. Were those involved in child protection consulted as part of that definition?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: What preferred process is Tusla communicating to the Department that it would hope to see as the definition?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does IHREC have any view on the taking of biometric data from children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: This is potentially a "Yes" or "No" question for the Department. It relates to offshore processing, which is allowed for in the pact. Has the Department been discussing introducing a head on the offshore processing of applicants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Great. I wonder then about the whole legal fiction around non-entry. The witnesses from IHREC, or others, may have a comment to make on that. We are creating the potential for a no-man's land in which obligations do not have to be fulfilled. We are potentially creating a scenario where people are left temporarily stateless. What concerns do the witnesses have in relation to that? The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Could this increase the number of scenarios in which there are unaccompanied minors because people will want to find a way to get their children to safety in a country that appears more hostile? With the increased measures, we might actually see an influx of cases involving the thing people think they are advocating against.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does anyone else have a comment on any of those questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does Mr. Herrick have a comment on the legality of the non-entry piece?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Does Ms Vuma or Dr. Lannon have any concluding comments to make on anything that has come up today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for the presentations and information so far. My question intersects the discussions on human rights impact assessments and on procurement. I hope procurement acts as a barrier to bad practice in terms of what could and could not be introduced. I read an article in The Guardiana couple of weeks ago about ministers in the Labour government in the UK meeting with Google,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Mr. Lowry is saying that start-ups can have the energy to create something. I am not saying that any of them are not efficient in terms of the chatbot. What I am concerned about, however, is a process in which a start-up may involve the right person but that it then skips a tender process and is used elsewhere. Under, say, the govtech situation, even if there is an identified start-up that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I have only a couple of seconds left. Briefly, I go back to agriculture and the €30,000 and €40,000 grant applications and how AI seems relatively harmless in the processing of applications. I have asked this question a few times and have never felt satisfied with the answer. I do not know whether that is because I do not understand what is being said or whether it is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: It is a wider point. I am just using farmers as an example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Brilliant.