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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: There is nothing to block Amazon from recognising trade unions. I have heard what Mr. Brophy had to say about positive use of AI with regard to helping Amazon workers. Surely it would send a very positive signal that Ireland is not one of those countries where Amazon has a poor workers' rights record. A key way to do that would be to recognise trade unions, so that it is not just left to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Do I take that as a "no", that Amazon is not willing to recognise the trade union members within the fulfilment centres in this country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Okay, grand. When the request is made, I am sure the response will be positive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Okay, thank you.

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I wish to speak to the amendment as well. When this Bill was going through pre-legislative scrutiny, there was serious concern within the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment about the introduction of seasonal permits. The record has not been good in this country regarding a number of employers and migrant work permits. We have a labour inspectorate that remains...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (28 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I welcome the Bill. I recall that in late 2007, when I was a new official in SIPTU, I met the then Minister, Mary Hanafin, just after the launch of the Green Paper on auto-enrolment. It is sad to think that it has taken 17 years to get to this point, but it is a point we welcome nonetheless. It is important to say that it has been 17 missed years of...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I move: That Seanad Éireann: notes that: - Ireland has a privatised waste collection system with a small number of very large operators; in many urban areas, there is significant competition for the market with the result that in some areas, multiple bin lorries from competing companies will travel the same streets; in other areas, market failure arises with no service provision...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Tuigim é sin. There is a critical shortfall there in not having a national waste operator in this country.

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: We understand that a significant number of legislative changes are required to be put forward. I am sure Senator Wall will indulge me while I go through them. Under the Waste Management Act 1996, there is no specific obligation on local authorities to collect waste because of the number of disapplications that exist in the legislation. Under the Competition Act 2002, it is difficult for a...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for his thoughtful contribution. I also thank Senators Kyne, Boyhan, Maria Byrne, McDowell and Warfield, and also my Labour Party colleagues Senators Hoey and Wall. I believe I heard the Minister of State say he was very open to considering a system of competition for the market. That is a crucial point in our motion. We have always been very clear that in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I wish to express the condolences of the Labour Party Group to our colleague Senator Moynihan who lost her mother at the weekend. At the start of this week, Max Shields, a 15-year-old boy from Clondalkin, lost his life when swimming in the Grand Canal. I express my condolences to his family. This is the time of year when the weather becomes wonderful, thank God, and people take to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank all the witnesses. This is an important conversation and we will have to return to it many times again. Mr. Lee spoke about the cyber risk and the reputational risk. I wish to ask specifically about the management and workers’ rights risk. We have a situation now where the development of tools within the workplace are beyond human surveillance in terms of algorithmic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Have any of the organisations represented here undertaken a large survey to give us a comprehensive sense of what is happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Spain moved ahead with establishing its own regulatory authority in August of last year and that is now up and running. To what extent is that a model for here? Related to that, what are the organisations’ expectations with regard to the enforcement of the AI Act? Some existing uses of AI within the workplace are going to be outlawed this year, but it is not yet really too clear,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Obviously, there are some activities, such as emotional interaction and so on within the workplace, that are going to be outlawed when the Act takes effect. What correspondence or communication have the organisations received from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment or, indeed, from the AI commission or advisory group with regard to compliance with the AI Act this year? They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: That is in the context of influencing the Act, however. Once it has been agreed, do the organisations have a clear sense of how the State is proposing to enforce it to ensure it will be implemented by their clients and by the organisations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: My final question is a simple one. What are AI hallucinations? One of the organisations – I am sorry, as I do not remember which – mentioned them. Someone might detail what they are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The AI Act is very much about product regulation and much less about the operation within businesses and workplaces. I welcome what the witnesses have said. Much of the research on AI is about the expected future use. I have not seen any comprehensive assessment or survey of the current use within workplaces. The witnesses are living and breathing this every day. What share of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Over the past eight days, we have seen a number of attacks and attempted attacks on candidates and councillors since the posters went up. I think the most shocking incident was in the early hours of last Wednesday morning when Councillor Tania Doyle and her husband were violently attacked. It is a sheer miracle that they did not sustain life-changing injuries or worse. This is a councillor...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I wish to raise the issue of apprenticeship pay. On 3 May 2023 – almost a year to the day – Labour Party Senators introduced a Bill seeking to ensure that all apprentices would receive the national minimum wage for the duration of their training. The following week, the then Minister and current Taoiseach, Deputy Simon Harris, stated at a Government press conference that he...