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Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: On a point of order, because of the division, surely we could afford the Minister the opportunity to at least respond to the amendment.

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I am sure the Minister would only take a minute, to be fair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I ask for clarity about the referral-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: We can go to Senator Lombard.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I am seeking clarity, if possible today, from the Ministers for Justice and integration about the system of referral of international protection, IP, applicants to the International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS. Most of us in this House agree that the emergence of tents and people being forced to camp overnight along the canal and in other areas around the city is inhumane. It...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for bringing this legislation before us. There will be many descriptions of it but there is no doubt that it is groundbreaking legislation. It is hard in some ways to fathom that it has taken 19 years since the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction to get to this point, that we have had the heads of Bill since 2017, and that, notwithstanding those terrible delays,...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I hear the Minister say this is wrong and I am delighted.

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I look forward to his clarification. He might point to exactly how those children are provided for under section 39. To conclude, we welcome the Bill overall. We do not want to see any delays to it. We want to see the gaps that have been identified in the Bill addressed. Senator Seery Kearney covered many of them. We now need to get on with the job of ensuring the regulatory authority...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: We owe those here today and the wider citizens’ assembly a huge debt of gratitude for their work and the concise recommendations we have before us. To have 250 hours of round-table discussion is an enormous commitment so I thank everyone very sincerely and also Dr. Ivers and Mr. Galvin whose professional work is hugely valued in this area. We have a profound set of recommendations in...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: That is a very important statement. I thank Mr. Reid. I will ask about recommendation 17. The assembly has very helpfully set out the questions that our committee needs to deal with regarding the issue of decriminalisation. I want to understand whether the citizens' assembly thought it was possible to go further. The recommendation is that ultimately there should be "a comprehensive...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: On the participation of An Garda Síochána in the citizens' assembly, we have seen between 2019 and 2023 a 54% increase in the number of people charged with possession for personal use. That figure is 74% in Dublin or the eastern region. Deputy Gino Kenny is here; I think it was his parliamentary questions which uncovered that. Will Mr. Reid give us some insight into where he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I apologise that I could not be here earlier. I warmly welcome all our witnesses. These hearings are very important because, as has been said a number of times, there is a lot that we still need to understand given we are still very much learning about generative AI. I am very excited about the prospect of what it can deliver in the public and private sectors but I am also cognisant of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: The Spanish AI supervisory authority was set up six months ago. Each of the organisations represented today has a presence there. I raised this issue at the previous meeting on AI. What engagement has each of the organisations had with the Spanish regulatory authority? Did they initiate contact with it? What has that engagement been like and what do they expect to come out of it into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Is it a policy discussion or a product safety interaction? That effectively is the focus of the authority. That is what I want to understand. You develop a generative AI product and it is for them to assess the various ins and outs of it. Has that happened with regard to Microsoft?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Okay, thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: Thank you. Running through all the submissions and contributions today is the need for responsible AI. That requires regulation but also the tech companies' own internal practices as well. We have AWS and Amazon here today and we are all aware that there is a very poor reputation across many fulfilment centres for Amazon and AWS. I am delighted to hear Mr. Brophy talking about some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: That is welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

Marie Sherlock: There is nothing to block Amazon from recognising trade unions. I have heard what Mr. Brophy had to say about positive use of AI with regard to helping Amazon workers. Surely it would send a very positive signal that Ireland is not one of those countries where Amazon has a poor workers' rights record. A key way to do that would be to recognise trade unions, so that it is not just left to...