195. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the steps his Department is taking to ensure Ireland has adequate personnel to staff Naval Service ships and adequately patrol Irish waters. [40640/25]
223. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Finance whether his Department has raised any concerns around the high level of fossil fuel financing which comes through Ireland, its potential impact on Ireland's climate targets and global decarbonisation efforts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40638/25]
266. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has engaged with representative groups for voice actors on the protection of their work and their voices from use by artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train models or to provide AI-generated voice-overs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40643/25]
274. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment whether additional funding will be granted to the competent authorities and fundamental rights authorities designated under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in order to facilitate the exercise of their duties under the act and ensure a high quality of regulation and application of the Act; and if he will make a statement on the matt…
278. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has engaged with representative groups for musicians and music producers on how to best legislate for reform of copyright laws and ensure fair remuneration for their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40641/25]
279. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department will release a timeline on the publishing of the Government's action plan on the promotion of collective bargaining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40671/25]
280. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the supports his Department has provided to SMEs to reduce the impact of tariffs on their businesses; if these supports were financial or non-financial; if they were targeted to particular sectors; and if they were targeted to SMEs or to all businesses, in tabular form. [40675/25]
281. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the steps his Department have taken to mitigate job losses, job displacement, and lower levels of new recruitment due to the adoption of artificial intelligence, as reported (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40701/25]
282. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department is collecting or tracking any data on labour displacement due to artificial intelligence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40702/25]
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]
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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]