Sinéad Gibney

356. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if there have been any funding or grant requests with his Department or bodies under its aegis in the past 12 months for the operation of pop-up pools. [40566/25]

357. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department is aware of any pop-up pools which were funded through capital grants from his Department or Sport Ireland which are not currently in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40567/25]

442. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 10 July 2025, the amount his Department spent on external services from a company (details supplied) to deliver the Digital Contact Centre project. [40562/25]

443. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 10 July 2025, the total budget for the Digital Contact Centre project; if the project was subject to any cost overruns or delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40563/25]

444. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount his Department spent on a verification service in the past 12 months (details supplied). [40564/25]

445. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his attention has been drawn to issues with users being unable to verify their documents with a service and being unable to get an adequate response from (details supplied) to resolve the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40565/25]

447. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has considered introducing a law to make it an offence to use a person’s features to produce artificial intelligence deepfakes, similar to proposals in Germany and Denmark, particularly in relation to the use of this technology to create revenge porn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40642/25]

474. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 10 July 2025, if he will provide further details on how artificial intelligence is used to analyse content to produce IT documentation; if this is a new output from his Department or replacing a function previously done by an employee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40561/25]

581. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has discussed the proposed increase of student contribution fees and the continuing shortfall in core higher education funding with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40674/25]

70. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the actions he has taken to advance the Programme for Government commitment to examine ways to facilitate people who are on work permits to move jobs more easily and legally; whether he has brought this to the strategic migration policy unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40154/25]

71. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of people on work permits who have changed employment in the past two years, broken down by month, occupation, and whether they are on a general or critical skills permit, in tabular form. [40168/25]

72. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment whether he is aware of the practice of agencies and employers charging workers recruited from overseas illegitimate recruitment fees in order to secure their employment; whether his Department plans to issue any guidance to permit holders on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40171/25]

181. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the weekly actual and target average turnaround times for South African visa applicants, broken down by category of visa, for the past three months, in tabular form. [39817/25]

273. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health to outline the unit within her Department that is responsible for alcohol policy outside of the enforcement of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40010/25]

274. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health when the new National Drugs Strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40011/25]

275. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health whether she or Ministers of State have met with groups on alcohol policy since taking office; if she will provide a list of those meetings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40012/25]

276. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health whether there will be consultation with alcohol groups in advance of the publication of the new National Drugs Strategy, given the stakeholder engagement from the Citizens Assembly on Drugs did not have alcohol within its remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40013/25]

282. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health in view of recent statements from the Tánaiste on pausing the implementation of alcohol labelling, when alcohol labelling will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40034/25]

166. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Taoiseach to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in tabular form. [38627/25]

296. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Transport the steps his Department is taking to regulate the usage of delivery drones in residential areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39062/25]

297. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Transport whether his Department has conducted any scoping exercises or research into the impact of drone usage on residential and urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39063/25]

415. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the funding put in place for the establishment of an AI observatory; whether any of that funding has been drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39102/25]

416. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment for an update on the establishment of an AI office; whether this office will be an independent body; and the remit the office will have. [39103/25]

424. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the contact his Department has had with social media companies over the potential for AI chatbots on social media platforms to generate antisemitic or racist content; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39470/25]

427. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if Ireland was supportive or critical of the ultimate position taken by the EU Council on the Omnibus package at the recent EU Council meeting regarding the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39698/25]