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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Can we get answers on the occupied territories Bill?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, we are asking questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the ceasefire. Any relief for the Palestinian people facing genocide is obviously welcome. I emphasise that a lasting peace will only be built on the basis of justice and there is still definitely no justice for the Palestinian people. My question relates to Government policy in this context. I am concerned that the various commitments that have been given in the context of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [50161/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Education is crucial to competitiveness. We will not have it without teachers, yet many schools are in crisis situations. I will give one example from my constituency. St. Mary's Boys National School in Rathfarnham is set to lose another teacher next year, having lost one in September, unless the Government commits to reducing class sizes. I have been contacted by many parents, one of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [50160/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Other Deputies have already raised the case of the elderly, vulnerable people on hunger strike. I think they have been 22 days on hunger strike outside Leinster House. They are survivors of industrial and reformatory schools who are putting their health on the line to try to access justice for themselves and their fellow survivors. They were failed once by the State when they were...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Earlier the Taoiseach posed the question as to what we were proposing to do to pressurise the energy companies to lower their costs. We have a Bill already to have price controls to stop the blatant profiteering. I put it back to the Taoiseach: what is he going to do? The answer, it appears, is "Nothing".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: He mentioned a bunch of things that have already been done. He is standing over the withdrawal of the cost-of-living supports, the impact of which will be deeper poverty. The budget was spoken about as a budget for child poverty. It absolutely was a budget for child poverty - increased child poverty. The Taoiseach should look at the report of the Parliamentary Budget Office, an impartial...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----and the Taoiseach is saying we will do nothing about it and we will not have price controls.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: He has power, under the Consumer Protection Act, to introduce price controls to stop this profiteering and people want him to act.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Tax them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Tax them more.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have written to the Business Committee about, and raised with it, the need for statements and questions and answers with the Minister for justice on the scenes of Garda brutality we saw the Saturday before last, with the indiscriminate use of pepper spray and batons against peaceful protesters at the docks - people protesting in solidarity with Palestine. We need to hear whether the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Irish households are being ripped off by electricity companies. That is not just how they feel about it; that is a fact. We have it black and white from the International Energy Agency and I quote its report, which states the disparity in Ireland, talking about the gap between wholesale electricity prices and retail prices, was the largest in all of Europe, with the energy component of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sorry, but I am not clear whether the answer is "Yes" or "No". Has a fundamental rights impact assessment been conducted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Ms Cassidy is saying that our usage is closely aligned with the European Union's AI Act. However, the latter states that in advance of using high-risk AI systems - some of what we are discussing would qualify as such - fundamental rights impact assessments have to be carried out. Ms Cassidy is not telling me that they have been carried out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Reference was made to a notable example in the Department of agriculture, which processes between 30,000 and 40,000 grant applications. AI is being used in that regard. Has a fundamental rights impact assessment been conducted by the Department of agriculture before using that AI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: The argument is that it is not required because this does not fall under the definition of "high risk". Are there plans to use it in the public service in ways the witnesses would see as high risk?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I will read to Mr. Lowry the definition of the classification of high risk from Annex III of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act: AI systems intended to be used by public authorities or on behalf of public authorities to evaluate the eligibility of natural persons for essential public assistance benefits and services, including healthcare services, as well as to grant, reduce, revoke, or...