I join my colleague Senator Joe Conway in paying tribute to the late John Quinn and extend my condolences to John's family. The documentary "Ballyfin - A Boarding School Memory" was very well received more than 30 years ago. John will be missed by a friend of mine, namely Helen Murphy of Port Road in Killarney, who corresponded with him regularly.

I also take the opportunity to recall Mary White, a former Senator who has departed this life.

Mary served in the Seanad and myself and Senator Martin Conway had the pleasure of serving alongside her. I am sure we will be paying tribute to her in due course but I want to extend my condolences to her husband, Padraic, her daughter, Cliona, and her friends and family.

The so-called nudification controversy about generative online chatbots, nonconsenual deepfakes and sexualised images, including those of children, deserves an immediate response from us as legislators. Down the road we will have an EU AI Act although it will not be fully effective until the autumn. That may help but what can we do now? I propose two things, the first of which is an emergency solution banning AI online chatbots from producing nude images. It is a partial solution. It is not comprehensive but it would curb overt explicit output by enforcing stricter safeguards like prompt filters or output scanners that would detect and block nudity. Of course there will be problems and it may prevent some innovation. Enforcement, of course, will rely on AI self-policing but we can talk ourselves out of any solution if we wish. The question is how serious we are about this. An immediate, short-term solution will sharpen the wits of big tech and make them come up, more quickly, with better solutions. They created the problem and they must solve it if they want AI chatbots to survive.

The second, almost immediately applicable, solution is mandatory watermarking of AI outputs whereby providers of generative AI systems automatically embed an identifiable watermark into every piece of content that AI creates. In short, if something is created, it should be capable of being traced back to its creator. I do not know the degree to which the EU AI Act will mandate this but it is a necessary requirement on all AI graphic output and is implementable. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. This remedy, like many others, is prone to manipulation by big brother and therefore free speech advocates must help to ensure that any legislation controlling its use is appropriately tempered. Finally, I would say in the spirit of Carthago delenda est that sooner or later if we are going to get to grips with the problem facing our society, pornography must be brought online. We must not stop saying that just because it seems like a long-term goal.

First, I want to extend my sincere condolences to Padraic White, his daughter and family and pay tribute to Mary White. What a wonderful Senator she was. I am sure we will have an opportunity to pay tribute to her at some later point but I would just like to say now that Mary White was a great friend, a great personal mentor, a true republican and an entrepreneur. I look forward to having the opportunity to pay tribute to her to a greater extent in this House.

Yesterday I was in Galway where President Connolly officially launched the Simon Communities of Ireland Older Adult Homelessness in Ireland report. It was well publicised on television, radio and on other media. The report was a collaborative effort bringing together local and international client perspectives to provide insights and explore practical solutions. The President highlighted some of the key recommendations in the report. I pay tribute to the CEO of Galway Simon, Ms Carol Baumann. That organisation has been involved in developing accommodation units there itself. The report draws attention to the issue of elderly homelessness in the context of rents, the cost of property, social isolation and the limits on HAP. All of these are challenges and this cohort of people needs our support, focus and attention. I also thank Ms Ber Grogan and wish her well as the new executive director of Simon Communities, which does amazing work. I will be asking the Oireachtas housing committee to give this report further consideration. I also want to thank the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell, who gave a very impressive presentation and overview of Government policy on older adult homelessness in Ireland.