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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is what it says in the press statement. It states: "All landlords". What the Government is therefore saying to existing and new tenants - all of them - is they get the limited protection of the 2% or CPI if is new, for six years. At six years it is a free for all. Landlords get to reset to market rate. There will be six 2% increases and then 40%, 30% or an unimaginable level that is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is. I will read it again. It does say that. As part of this master of the spin, it also says "Tenancies of unlimited duration to be enhanced by introduction of rolling-six year tenancies ...". That is some enhancement, Taoiseach. You are getting rid of tenancies of unlimited duration and going back to the old system of rolling six-year tenancies. What you are presenting is Orwellian....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----people who are trying to buy a house, people who are locked out and who are going to be locked out even further-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----are going to be on the streets-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----next Tuesday at 6 p.m. in front of the Dáil as part of-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----a major Raise the Roof mobilisation to stop this Government and its landlord agenda.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The housing crisis is not new, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: You are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: You are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach wrote an opinion piece in the Business Post a number of months ago in which he said we needed to act decisively now across the whole of government to accelerate the adoption of AI across the public sector, enterprise and wider society. In the article he compared the significance of AI to the industrial revolution and the printing press. The role of the committee should be to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sorry I missed the opening statement. I have read it. I had to do something else. To start with a kind of technical question, it seems that some of the discussion in this area is a little confused by the incentive that corporations have to put the term "AI" on everything. It is a bit like blockchain. For a while, everything was blockchain, dotcom or whatever. There is kind of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is very useful. Apologies if my next question has already been asked. Could our guests outline what research is taking place on the environmental impact of AI? It is part of the illusion that this is all happening in the cloud and that we do not see the material footprint, but, obviously, there is an immense material footprint. Data centres globally are responsible for around 3% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: To dig into that a little, DeepSeek was presented as a good news story because it smashed the American models, effectively, given that it was far more efficient. However, does the Jevons paradox apply to AI? Computing has obviously become a lot more efficient over the past 40 or 50 years. Worldwide, however, I would say we use more electricity on computing now than we did 50 years ago....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Research Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have a more philosophical question about control and democracy. I opened WhatsApp a few weeks ago and all of a sudden I had this stupid AI thing that I did not want. I just want to chat to people. I could not get rid of it. There is no way. You can ask AI to get rid of it and AI tells you how you can get rid of it but, actually, the option does not exist. You cannot go into it. You...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether current and projected energy and water demand from data centres and AI is excessive; the steps he will take to prevent data centres and AI from absorbing electricity and water needed for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30250/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he agrees with the EPA’s assessment in its latest report on Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections (details supplied); the reason no significant additional measures were included given the massive shortfall in emissions reductions relative to legally binding targets; and the steps he will take to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 27 May 2025, the reason, given the Government's support for political integration of former associates of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement so as to incentivise decommissioning of arms, it has taken the opposite view in relation to Palestinian groups,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (10 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 50% reduction in fares for 18–25-year-olds with a young adult Leap card is a permanent measure that will continue in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29569/25]