Johnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein)

In this debate, we are all hung up on predicting the future, which none of us can do. We can only address what is happening here at the moment. Everyone is falling into the trap of speculating about what will happen in the future. If everyone could predict the future, the world would be a far better place, but we cannot. I understand that the council cannot give us perfect clarity on this. We will never get perfect clarity in a situation.

Regarding jobs, a pilot scheme was run in the complaints department of an insurance company where all the complaints were answered by AI. Some 95% of the people who sent in complaints were quite happy with the answers they received. A lot of jobs will go and we have to worry about that as well.

The Finnish model was mentioned. Would that work here? Should we be working on that at the moment? I agree on the idea of the AI observatory. Has the council examined the cost of it or how it would be funded?