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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their work and coming here today. I missed the opening statement but I read it. When they listed the risks, I was surprised they did not include climate change as a risk. Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: May I just quote here, "AI's risks to society, including bias, privacy erosion, job displacement, misinformation, threats to fairness, safety and human dignity, and impacts on the creative sector and intellectual property". I agree with all of those risks. These risks and immediate and significant, but Dr. Scanlon did not list climate change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: How much more energy does Dr. Scanlon think data centres will use, both globally and in Ireland in the coming ten years as a result of embracing AI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: That has been happening, yet energy usage has still been going up and up. There is a concept called the Jevons paradox, which suggests that as we get more efficient at it, we end up using more and more. It is all very well to tell people not to worry and that the usage will reduce. If we had 100% renewable energy in Ireland now, this would be a different conversation and we could talk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I will come back in and maybe Mr. Blanchfield will respond to it. Dr. Scanlon discussed the risks and balance in her opening statement but what she is actually saying is that we need to have the infrastructure in order for Ireland to be a leader. I do not hear much of the risks she has outlined. The answer I am hearing from her is to go full steam ahead. I have not heard much in terms of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I support for the call for statements on Pride. I also call for a debate and a motion to be brought forward by the Government, if it wants us to sign up to this European armament programme called SAFE. It is part of ReArm Europe, and entails €150 billion worth of loans, effectively to be paid for by the public into the pockets of the armaments industry in Europe. It was announced on...

Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh and the campaigners on this issue. It is outrageous that there are still people today walking around with historical convictions for the so-called crime of being gay. The Government, of course, will say no one should be criminalised for consensual sexual activity, but a working group was set up to examine disregarding those convictions back in 2021 and still...

Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to improve the welfare of pigs by prohibiting teeth-clipping, tail-docking and castration, limiting the use of tusk reduction and regulating sow stalls and farrowing crates. I start by thanking the National Animal Rights Association, NARA, especially Laura Broxson and Dr....

Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the long overdue publication of this report. AsIAm has pointed out that it is worrying to see references to amending the Education Act, which could delay the action we need to see. All parents know, and the Government acknowledges in all its statements, how crucial timely intervention is, but for many it is not delivered. I will take the opportunity to raise an important...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the inexplicable decision to cut SNA hours at Firhouse Educate Together National School. The school is already struggling to cope, with only eight SNAs catering for more than 90 children with additional needs. One parent wrote to me to tell me that her son started in the autism unit and with the amazing support of his teachers and SNAs was able to transition to a mainstream...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: The year 2024 was the hottest on record. Temperatures were 1.6° above the historical average. Europe is now in the grip of another heatwave. In France, 300 people have been hospitalised, and two people have already died from the heat. They will not, unfortunately, be the last to die this summer across Europe. We urgently need to stop pumping more greenhouse gases into the...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is another week of unspeakable horror in Gaza, with scores of people killed every single day, many of them - maybe most of them - while queuing for food. Another week of aid being used as a weapon of war against starving Gazans by the Israeli, US-backed, so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Another week of distraction, reframing and excuses by most of the western establishment who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: How big of a risk are AI and embracing AI to us meeting our climate targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: In response to someone earlier, Dr. Scanlon said that we had never had a technology as transformative as AI. Does she stand over that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does Dr. Scanlon think AI is more transformative than the invention of the computer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is AI more transformative than the development of the Internet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is it more transformative than the printing press?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Dr. Scanlon told me that she was not an AI advocate, though.