James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Dr. Begley has touched on a really interesting point that I was going to ask about. That is self-evident. I have witnessed it and observed it myself. To take one example of an event, although it is not a disabilities event, Pride has always been supported by a large number of corporates in Ireland, in Dublin in particular, and some of those corporates did not support it this year. That is a very different issue from disabilities but it speaks to the whole DEI area. This is what I was wondering about. DEI in one respect touches on workplace environments, HR and everything taking place in enterprise but there is also the aspect of the basement level, such as the engineers, the technology and what the machines are doing. We do not like this row-back on DEI in Europe, and I take Dr. Begley’s point, but is that impacting how they are operating their technologies and machine learning? I do not know the answer to that question. I am just putting it out there in the context of the witnesses' own knowledge base.