Results 761-780 of 12,563 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I can imagine. My next question relates to AI, the cloud and big data. We know that the national AI strategy refers to all those things as being here for good, and fingers crossed for that. We know that big data, AI, analytics, the cloud and so on are essential technologies which will be key drivers for productivity and innovation and will enable us, exactly as Ms Carberry said, to be on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: That is fine. I am just curious to know if there will be a specific focus on SMEs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: It is not that we think that bigger companies will just manage on their own; they will not. However, they have a lot more resources, so that partnership with IBEC will be the one that will drive the focus for SMEs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: The organisations like that are interested. I know ISME, Family Business Network Ireland, the Irish Exporters Association, all those groups-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Exactly. They are all interested. I think they are interested, concerned and curious. They do not want their competitors getting ahead of them but, equally, they want to keep doing what they are doing and do not want to be branching out to do something new that might be beneficial but also could be costly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: And to be led by the businesses. That is grand. That is good to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: That is welcome. I know we are talking about digital but there is no substitute for being physically present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: In the context of looking at AI, the committee is focused on the need for human involvement, particularly when hiring and firing people, deciding who gets what shift and that sort of thing. Algorithms might be very handy but they do not take account of human beings. Some human involvement has to be built in. SMEs and customers want to know that is happening. On the threats posed and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Unfortunately, the headline "The cybersecurity worked and nobody was harmed", will never get much publicity. The only time we talk about it is when there has been a major security breach. I know the cybersecurity centre is not a competency of the Department. How much input has there been from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment into a strategy for industry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: My time is up. I thank the witnesses. I must apologise because I need to go to another meeting. I will not be able to stay but I will look back.
- Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, for bringing forward the motion. It is an important motion that strikes at the heart of the cost-of-living crisis faced by ordinary people. The cost-of-living crisis could more accurately be described as a rip-off crisis. People in Ireland pay two thirds higher than the EU average for electricity, with a typical Irish household paying nearly...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: 157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the new IT system to allow workers employed using the work permit system to a change of employer will be in place. [27084/24]
- Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for bringing this legislation before the Dáil. Workers and families have seen a sharp, sudden and significant increase in their mortgage costs since 2022. Since the European Central Bank first increased its key interest rates in July of that year, average mortgage interest costs have increased by a whopping 70%. For so many, these increases have been...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: The shock of receiving a cancer diagnosis is devastating news for patients and their families. It is a time of deep worry and stress. The last thing that patients should have to worry about on top of this is struggling to afford the cost of attending their treatment. In its pre-budget submission, the Irish Cancer Society revealed yesterday that patients are still forced to fork out huge...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: It can be resolved outside.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: You can intervene.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Just describing the problem is not good enough.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: A high-level intervention is required.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Through a high-level intervention.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: An intervention is required.