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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Security (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: The Tánaiste has outlined the issues quite succinctly and well. One thing to bear in mind as well is whether the strategy will incorporate external expertise to ensure that it reflects best international practice. That is not necessarily expertise from the private sector. We would be looking to our partners in Europe specifically, and then obviously to our Canadian and American...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Security (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the role his Department will play in the preparation of a revised national security strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30994/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Security (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: As the Tánaiste knows, the programme for Government committed to the development of a revised national security strategy, one that reflects the changing threats and geopolitical realities Ireland now faces. Progress has been made with the establishment of the national security council and secretariat, but five years on from the original commitment the full strategy remains outstanding....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Security (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: As the Tánaiste is aware, the nature of national security has fundamentally changed. We are no longer talking solely about traditional military threats but, rather, hybrid threats, cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, energy security, technological vulnerability and foreign interference. The world has moved at pace, from the war in Ukraine and the instability in the Middle East...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 26. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the timeframe to achieve level of ambition 2 enhanced capability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made on introducing a new common application system for children applying to special schools and classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31232/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand the National Educational Psychological Service to support an increased number of assessments each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31233/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that State policies support the collaborative development of standard house and apartment types to drive efficiency, reduce costs and support viability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31413/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (12 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 593. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures he is taking to encourage Irish businesses to provide food information bilingually to promote the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31625/25]

Proposed Approval of the Agreement Between the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Ireland: Motion (11 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I welcome Ireland's associate membership of CERN and, like others, I would encourage our moving towards full membership. I acknowledge the work done in this regard by the Minister, by Deputy Malcolm Byrne and by the previous Oireachtas. We really need to focus on the many positives coming out of this. The most important thing to bear in mind is that we get far more out of our associate...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I want to outline how the communications on burst water mains happens in Kildare. I will pick Maynooth as an example. I was a councillor there for close to 11 years before being elected to this House. I could get a call at 2 o'clock in the morning from a resident in a housing estate or from the local fire service telling me there is a burst water main. I then had to get on to Irish Water...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I wish to raise a matter of urgent importance affecting communities across Kildare North, that is, the sustained and worsening failure in water infrastructure, particularly in Celbridge, Leixlip and Maynooth. For far too long, families in estates such as Primrose Hill, Temple Manor and The Grove in Celbridge have been forced to endure weekend after weekend of drastically reduced water...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (11 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 365. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to review and reform the age-based exclusion criteria for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy to ensure a fairer and more equitable approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31073/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I acknowledge the progress made this year to date. The CSO has announced 5,938 home completions happened in quarter 1 of 2025, which is the second highest first quarter since the series began in 2011, and that apartment completions in quarter 1 of 2025 were up 13.4% on quarter 1 of 2024. Many more apartments need to be built and I hope the announcements being made will increase the number...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 23. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the recent work of the Economic and Social Research Institute as part of the shared island initiative. [22483/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Council. [27219/25]

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I apologise for having been in and out. Another committee is meeting at the same time and I am Leas-Chathaoirleach of that committee so it makes it quite difficult. I appreciate the opening statement which I read through in detail prior to the meeting. For context, my background is in industry and I worked in AI prior to being elected to this House. I am also the Fianna Fáil party...

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I might just come in there briefly. The CRTs are quite interesting. I appreciate it takes a long time to complete a PhD. Things change rapidly from day to day, for example, Google's Veo 3 and Apple's new iOS, which was launched today. Is there time or space for those CRTs to have some kind of rapid AI response fund for high-potential and high-speed innovation? While I appreciate that...

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I appreciate that. To move on to AI and research management, from reading it again, Taighde Éireann is promoting the use of AI in peer review, programme design and grant management. What safeguards are in place to ensure this does not entrench bias or create opacity in decisions about public research funding?

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: To that point, there would be algorithms. Who would audit any time of algorithm that would be proposed in research management?