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Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Commissioner for the presentation. I have two subjects, and if I do not get to the second one, I will wait and come back in. One of them is more of a broad question around culture and how we move forward. Many other people look for more police on the street. I am constantly trying to think about how we have fewer police on the street and the need for fewer police on the...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I will go back to two issues. Picking up on the point about the Mothers Against Genocide, I am going back a step on that in terms of whether the Commissioner feels their arrests in general were a necessary use of police time given that it was a peaceful protest. They were not blocking anyone from entry during that given time and there is a right to protest. Lots of steps could have been...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: The Commissioner is saying that, in relation to the complaints that were made, he is differentiating between somebody making an accusation that her private parts were touched versus some people may have received strip searches or cavity searches. Is he saying there is some truth in what potentially did happen in some of those accusations?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: There is still a space where something could have happened, where there is no video footage. If people are going to complain, there is due course. There was something made public. There is a committee of parliamentary privileges where any State institution or any individual can make a complaint if they are unhappy about something said on the record here. This issue was made very public,...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Why did the Commissioner choose to do that and to bypass that process and ask the Ceann Comhairle to circulate that communication before an independent investigation could actually take place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I echo the well wishes to the Cathaoirleach. I look forward to working with everyone. This committee makes me nervous. I am nervous about exploring how AI intersects with so many different areas of our lives, whether that be the implications it has for poverty, creating digital poorhouses, human rights, war, how vulnerable poor communities interact with the State and understanding the...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I have had some off-the-record conversations with retired sergeants and some current police who have spoken about the past and when they started out, especially, being drawn in to using violence unnecessarily, especially in relation to working-class men. Can we truly move forward if we do not also create the space to speak about that? If I am asking communities to speak about the harm they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: There is no such thing as an original thought. Some of my questions are more for me to better my understanding in this area, so I ask the witnesses to bear with me if I jump around a little bit. Do any of the witnesses have an insight or view on the demographics of those developing AI, machine learning and associated technologies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I am asking for the demographics of the individuals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: To break it down from the abstract concept of a technology company, are we primarily looking at white, middle-class males within those companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: Is there a class balance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: These questions are to help me. In the context of education, and this goes back to what Deputy Murphy said about being the consumer, I am concerned about who becomes the consumer and who controls the platform, narrative, information and knowledge. For me, it is not only about ensuring that the working class and more vulnerable groups have access to AI at an educational level, but that we go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: How do you ensure that inclusivity? What are the actual steps involved? Are there community partnerships on different projects, in particular for under-represented cohorts? What efforts are made for inclusivity in the context of research?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: As a politician, you might be at meetings and you might hear another politician or a Minister say they can potentially use machine learning or AI to filter waiting lists or whatever. This has been commented on in the Chamber. I never really know quite what they mean when they say that, even if they do. What I am concerned about, and what I want the witnesses to comment on, is language to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I hope so.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Readmission Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Lynn Ruane: I understand the idea and it sounds reasonable when you say this is just opening a conversation. However, a conversation is being opened that nobody has contributed to because we do not have the information. That means we are trusting a particular group to go into negotiations when we have not had any sort of public discussion with anybody on the content people want to see as part of the...