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

Paul Murphy: I believe that AI is real and significant but I just feel that there is a lot of boosterism going on with it that is designed to boost people's share prices. It is kind of like what we saw with the dotcom bubble. All of a sudden, everything was dotcom or blockchain. Everything is currently AI, even stuff that previously was not defined as AI but as computers doing stuff. Is there not a...

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

Paul Murphy: I think it is fair of Dr. Scanlon to express her belief.

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

Paul Murphy: For many of the questions we asked, the answer we got was that there were no easy answers. How much extra energy are we going to use if we really go all in on AI? Is the council working on an answer to that? I accept that would be an estimate, but is the answer "No"?

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

Paul Murphy: Is it not putting the cart before the horse a little? In her opening statement or the council's submission, Dr. Scanlon advocated for accelerating AI adoption, encouraging responsible innovation and reinforcing Ireland's role in the global AI system. She is advocating that we invest in AI infrastructure, but without knowing whether it will make it impossible for us to meet our climate...

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

Paul Murphy: Yes, but does council not have a duty to examine some of those risks? It seems to me that the approach is to headline the risks, say that they are not enough because the risk of not doing it is also a big risk, and then not investigate these risks further. What further work is happening in terms of climate, copyright infringement and jobs in this space? Are these areas where discreet work...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the higher rates of homeless HAP are made available to people currently in rental accommodation so that they do not have to become homeless first to access the higher rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35891/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the State will directly build social housing projects that were to be built using PPPs, in light of the escalating costs associated with PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35889/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to protect students from rent increases when the planned new legislation comes into force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that existing tenants with pre-March 2026 tenancies cannot be evicted, either between now and March 2026, or post-March 2026, so that landlords can reset the rent to market rates for new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35888/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to end child homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35890/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he plans to make provision for private individuals to be able to charge their EV from their home in circumstances in which their wire would have to cross a public footpath due to not having a private front garden. [36102/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to investigate the proposed redesignation of mild general learning disability (MGLD) schools, allowing for a full consultation to take place and ensuring that children with MGLD continue to have the right to access special school placements that suit their needs; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a case (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department to review this case and ensure that the child in question is able to attend the special school in the 2025-2026 school year. [35690/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the March 2026 legislation, a tenancy in shared rental accommodation can be considered to have ended for all tenants if one tenant leaves; if the rent can then be reset to market rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made on establishing a deposit protection scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 836. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children shortlisted for evacuation to Ireland for medical reasons who have died while awaiting evacuation; the reason there is a significant delay in evacuating children; and the steps she is taking to ensure that children who are shortlisted for evacuation for medical reasons are quickly evacuated. [36074/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures for idiopathic scoliosis on public patients in a private hospital (details supplied) that have been conducted in each of the past three years; the average patient length of stay of these operations; to outline the funding arrangements for the surgical team; and whether this public private treatment programme has been reviewed in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if she will instruct their Department to ensure that schools are allocated the appropriate number of SNAs, in order to ensure that children receive an adequate level of care and that school staff can perform their duties without any undue stress; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pigmeat Sector (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outlaw teeth-clipping, tail-docking and castration in pig farming and regulate sow stalls and farrowing crates to have an area of not less than 5 sq. m, so as to improve animal welfare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36640/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pigmeat Sector (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last Tuesday, I introduced a Bill to ban pig mutilation, sow stalls and farrowing crates, which the EU has already committed to phase out and for which the Minister is already giving grants to farmers to move away from. The question is whether he will take a lead on this, as the Government did under pressure from campaigners on fur farming, where it moved ahead of the rest of the European...