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Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [29326/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Two weeks ago, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of unnecessary surgeries on children said to have hip dysplasia and unnecessary osteotomies. I questioned why the surgeons responsible had not been suspended or at the very least suspended from carrying out osteotomies. Since then, I have learned it is even worse than I feared. There was a meeting last Tuesday to decide on surgical...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on new shared island projects. [29327/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: A shared island should not have an invisible hard border for non-EU migrants, but that is the case currently. I have raised this multiple times. In the past a somewhat sympathetic hearing was given to the likes of the North West Migrants Forum. In this atmosphere of performative cruelty by the Government on migration, I fear it will not make any moves on this. I would be interested to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is why it is invisible. It does not affect most people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: For a migrant it is.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: These are EU migrants who are legally present in the North and cannot travel to the South. That is the point I am making.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Not in that part of my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, they cannot. That is why it is a hard border.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: First, I thank the Social Democrats for using its time to allow this joint motion to be debated. There is a lot of obfuscation from the Government and an attempt to mislead people in the counter motion and in the Minister’s speech. It is true that the Central Bank does not sell, endorse or oversee these bonds, but the key point is that it is facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach wrote an opinion piece in the Business Post a number of months ago in which he said we needed to act decisively now across the whole of government to accelerate the adoption of AI across the public sector, enterprise and wider society. In the article he compared the significance of AI to the industrial revolution and the printing press. The role of the committee should be to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sorry I missed the opening statement. I have read it. I had to do something else. To start with a kind of technical question, it seems that some of the discussion in this area is a little confused by the incentive that corporations have to put the term "AI" on everything. It is a bit like blockchain. For a while, everything was blockchain, dotcom or whatever. There is kind of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is very useful. Apologies if my next question has already been asked. Could our guests outline what research is taking place on the environmental impact of AI? It is part of the illusion that this is all happening in the cloud and that we do not see the material footprint, but, obviously, there is an immense material footprint. Data centres globally are responsible for around 3% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: To dig into that a little, DeepSeek was presented as a good news story because it smashed the American models, effectively, given that it was far more efficient. However, does the Jevons paradox apply to AI? Computing has obviously become a lot more efficient over the past 40 or 50 years. Worldwide, however, I would say we use more electricity on computing now than we did 50 years ago....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have a more philosophical question about control and democracy. I opened WhatsApp a few weeks ago and all of a sudden I had this stupid AI thing that I did not want. I just want to chat to people. I could not get rid of it. There is no way. You can ask AI to get rid of it and AI tells you how you can get rid of it but, actually, the option does not exist. You cannot go into it. You...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether current and projected energy and water demand from data centres and AI is excessive; the steps he will take to prevent data centres and AI from absorbing electricity and water needed for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30250/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he agrees with the EPA’s assessment in its latest report on Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections (details supplied); the reason no significant additional measures were included given the massive shortfall in emissions reductions relative to legally binding targets; and the steps he will take to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 27 May 2025, the reason, given the Government's support for political integration of former associates of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement so as to incentivise decommissioning of arms, it has taken the opposite view in relation to Palestinian groups,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 50% reduction in fares for 18–25-year-olds with a young adult Leap card is a permanent measure that will continue in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29569/25]