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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: I have a question on that. The risk-based assessment model is essentially an iterative one with a to-and-fro. Eventually standards, codes and approaches will evolve but given the speed at which the technology is evolving, does the model have much chance of keeping pace? I worry about what might be called the democratic deliberative process. The horse has largely already bolted in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: Briefly, everybody recognises the great importance of the responsibility with which companies like Mr. Rollison's conducts its business. I would be interested to know how the company manages that internally. At Government level, we have got used to things like whistleblowing legislation, risk-proofing of every new Act for certain features, and board and Cabinet-level reports, or whatever....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: It is published in our RIA, as we would call it, which is the regulatory impact assessment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Richard Bruton: It shows that. That moves up the chain.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (28 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate that she is speaking on behalf of the Minister for the marine. The response has been drafted by Department of the marine officials on behalf of the Minister and does not capture the urgency. We do not need increased grant aid for onboard and inshore investments. We are beyond that. Somebody is drowning and we are talking about giving them...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy. I will raise this again with the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. He has met with representatives of the inshore fisheries recently and is very aware of the challenges they face. He is committed to ensuring we identify and explore all avenues available to us in terms of the funding supports that may be put in place for inshore fisheries. In saying that, we as a member...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (28 May 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 10.35 p.m. go dtí 9.10 a.m., Dé Céadaoin, an 29 Bealtaine 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 10.35 p.m. until 9.10 a.m. on Wednesday, 29 May 2024.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome her constructive message and the fact there has already been a meeting. I hope another meeting will resolve this issue. Everybody would like to see this class being set up. Parents are concerned, which is completely understandable. We all know what it is like once we get into the summer months. There are concerns that parents would not get the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy. We are in agreement on the need to resolve this issue. I have full faith that the school and the HSE will come to an amicable agreement. I will ask my Department officials to continue to engage with the NCSE and to monitor the issue. The NCSE is available to support the school and the HSE local team in resolving the issues at play here. The local SENO also has acted...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (28 May 2024)

Fishing Industry

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (28 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a serious crisis in the inshore fishing sector. The sector has been denied the ability to fish for pollock and is questioning the methodology behind that. The price of crab, lobster and a range of shellfish species has either halved or just collapsed. The crisis with shrimp prices is ongoing since last year. The sector urgently needs support. Those in the sector have engaged...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (28 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. The Minister is very aware of the challenges faced by inshore fishermen. He met with representatives of the inshore fleet recently to discuss them. The European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund, EMFAF, is the primary source of funding for the Irish seafood sector. It provides...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The important issue relates to the school building programme and ensuring that the planned extension will happen as soon as possible. Obviously, it would have been better if it had happened earlier, but it would be good to get a timeline for when we think it can be delivered. If it was in train, we would not have the issues we have been facing recently, whereby parents were told that there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Norma Foley: Absolutely. I know that the Deputy has a particular interest in special education and has engaged with me a number of times on it. We are deeply committed in this area, and while we were coming from a low base, it is an achievement to say we now have 3,000 special classes in the scheme and we can see that, for example, of the new special classes that are in place, 11 are in County Louth....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That concludes Question Time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Do we have no time left?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We have no time left, I am sorry to say, but we have covered the widest spectrum of questions during the course of the debate.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (28 May 2024)

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Special Educational Needs