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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details for the past three years and the current year funding allocated or paid out for Departmental employees for legal study programmes including EU law in the past three years, detailing the course title, the course provider, the course fees, grade of employee supported, whether course was in person or online and name...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details for the past three years and the current year funding allocated or paid out for Departmental employees for legal study programmes including EU law , detailing the course title, the course provider, the course fees, grade of employee supported, whether course was in person or online and name of the scheme providing the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details for the past three years and the current year funding allocated or paid out for Departmental employees for legal study programmes including EU law in the past three years, detailing the course title, the course provider, the course fees, grade of employee supported, whether course was in person or online and name of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the details for the past three years and the current year funding allocated or paid out for Departmental employees for legal study programmes including EU law in the past three years, detailing the course title, the course provider, the course fees, grade of employee supported, whether course was in person or online and name of the scheme providing the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 408. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details for the past three years and the current year funding allocated or paid out for Departmental employees for legal study programmes including EU law in the past three years, detailing the course title, the course provider, the course fees, grade of employee supported, whether course was in person or online and name of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. I look forward to engagement over the next couple of years. If we really embrace AI, how many jobs are at risk in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is it a concern of the Minister of State? Is it something to be weighed up, in deciding whether we embrace AI, that we might lose tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of jobs? Some estimates are 200,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: What about the impact on the terms and conditions and employment experiences of workers? I do not know whether the Minister of State saw the story last week in TheJournal.ie about workers in Covalen, which is an company outsourced by Meta to train AI. Their workers have joined the CWU. The Minister of State should read the story, which is pretty horrendous. One employee said: "Every day,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: This is happening in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, with Meta. It is an Irish firm, Covalen, that is an outsourced company from Meta.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State mentioned that the reason the emphasis is on SMEs is because this comes under the Department of enterprise but, as far as I know, it is the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, which also deals with workers' rights. Is this something that is under the Minister of State's remit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Good. There was previously a push, pre AI becoming as dominant as it is, to stop the outsourcing. There have been repeated issues of content moderator people all being outsourced by these big companies. Again, pre AI, people had to watch horrendous videos because someone had to watch them, but it was all outsourced. It is a way for the big multinationals to avoid responsibility. Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: One of the downsides of AI is the training of it, which is abusive to workers. The other aspect of that training is the breaching of the rights of artists of various sorts. There was a story in the paper the other day about Conor Kostick, who is a member of the Irish Writers Union, who said that 52 of his works, including 24 books, have been scraped or copied from the Internet and used by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Okay, great. The other thing I raised my eyebrows at in the opening statement was that the only mention of the environment referred to the global environment for business. Does the Minister of State consider it an important part of her job to weigh up the intense damage that could be done to our environment, in particular as a result of the massive use of electricity and water? Is the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Let us have a debate on that so we can hear it. We heard this morning from the Government that we are facing an era of restraint - austerity, in other words. We had two pre-election budgets with once-off payments and now, after the election, we have a return to austerity budgets.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is deeply cynical when the cost-of-living crisis is deepening for ordinary people and when four in ten parents are cutting back on meals so their children have enough to eat. It is austerity for ordinary people, not for the landlords who will see their rents increase even faster or the property developers who will benefit from shrinkflation. We need to debate this in the Dáil...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [35615/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is very simple: the Department of justice has refused to give the visas needed for children from Palestine to come here and play hurling. That can still be changed. It requires a Government decision to say, "We are going to grant the visas; it is the very least we can do." I urge the Government to act at this late stage. As well as the GAA players being denied entry, we know there have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: We can take five minutes off the next group.