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Paediatric Spinal Surgery Waiting Lists: Statements (19 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome that we are finally going to have a statutory inquiry into the care of children with scoliosis and spina bifida at CHI. It is unfortunate and outrageous that it has taken what it has taken to get to this point where we have an inquiry. Campaigners have been calling for one for a long time, as have some of us in the Dáil. It is not just about the hundreds of children who have...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the race to the bottom in migration policy that is happening right across the European Union and Europe. We witnessed it unfold over the past few days when the British Government announced that it was going to implement a Danish-style asylum system, cracking down further on already very limited rights of people to asylum, with the Labour Party Government dancing to the tune...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I will quote the Taoiseach who told an international audience at COP30: The science is undeniable. Temperatures are rising, and the clock is ticking. If we are not prepared to tell our citizens the truth about this, we are failing them, and this planet, in the most profound way. Has the Taoiseach tried telling the truth to the big dairy farmers and the big dairy processors who are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on the work of the shared island unit. [56997/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on water quality will next meet. [56996/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Two years ago, I raised with the Taoiseach a repeated problem of sewage overflowing in Dodder Valley Park beside Balrothery weir. When there is heavy rainfall, the sewage shoots out beside a residential area in a beautiful park. It is still happening. It happened again last weekend with the heavy rainfall. In March 2024, I got a reply from Uisce Éireann accepting that it was...

Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill: Motion [Private Members] (19 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Two days ago, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, a resolution endorsing the so-called Trump peace plan - a peace plan that, disgracefully, was welcomed by the Irish Government. We will probably hear it welcomed again today. It makes the saying from Tacitus, "they make a desert and call it peace," the most appropriate it has ever been because after two years of genocide, after...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I do not know about that. There are plenty.

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputies Coppinger and Boyd Barrett. On a personal level, I wish the former Minister for Finance well but on a political level and on an ideas level, I do not wish his ideas and his politics well. It is worth examining what Paschal Donohoe's ideology has been and what it has meant. He is one of the more ideological and more considered figures within the political...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is pretty shameless of the Government to use the occasion of Paschal Donohoe moving on in the world to avoid answering questions today. I also want to say that the statements on paediatric care must be made into questions and answers. We pushed for this at the Business Committee. There has been a long push for a statutory inquiry into the care of children with scoliosis and spina...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was signed off on. Okay. I ask that we have questions in relation to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I will start with Mr. Godfrey. Can I ask why Coimisiún na Meán dropped the requirement for social media companies to turn off recommender algorithms? The requirement was in the draft online safety code published in December 2023. By the time the final version was published in May 2024, however, it was gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The draft code referred to measures to ensure that "recommender algorithms based on profiling should be turned off by default."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Did that feedback come from big tech companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: In the context of the feedback from the NGOs, there was a joint submission by 60 civil society groups which welcomed the inclusion of a call for recommender systems to be turned off by default. The feedback from the tech groups was that they were against that, as was that from the European Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The industry submission claimed that recommender systems play an important role in ensuring a safe, predictable and trusted online environment by making sure that users are connected to relevant and high-quality information. That goes strongly against the evidence the committee has heard so far in terms of people being pushed down far-right pipelines, anti-immigrant pipelines and eating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Godfrey. I also thank Dr. McQuillan for his blunt assessment of the problems with AI. It is a necessary part of the conversation and an important contribution. He stated, "We are currently seeing the EU walking back the flagship AI Act in the face of pressure from Trump and big tech.” Will he expand on that a little?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Dr. McQuillan. I was struck by his point that large language models are sold as learning accelerators but that they substitute slop for critical thinking. These models are becoming the first port of call for everything from essays to relationship advice. There are now ads visible across Dublin city - and, presumably, across the country - for ChatGPT that show a couple standing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion (18 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Dr. McQuillan. I will try to make it back for a second round, but I have to run to something.