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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he agrees that without appropriate regulation, the increased usage of artificial intelligence, AI, technologies poses potential risks to workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31386/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Like Deputy Devlin, I was looking at my notes for the second session of this meeting when I saw the board’s opening statement and I was surprised. I have some sympathy for Mr. O’Loughlin’s position. Clearly, something was discovered and he is taking action, and he does not want to do anything in a public manner that would frustrate that. He is doing that in the best...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: One would know Mr. O'Loughlin was new to the position.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: To continue the point, there is one issue I would like to clarify. I have some experience of employment law, and the term "voluntary leave" is a very generic one. Will Mr. O'Loughlin explain what it means?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. I am using only words that Mr. O'Loughlin used himself. If there is a disciplinary process, people can be suspended with or without pay or left in post. If people take annual leave, that must be approved by their employer. There is no statutory voluntary leave. That does not exist in law.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It sounds more like involuntary leave, if Mr. O'Loughlin does not mind me saying.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I am not going to seek to trip up Mr. O'Loughlin in regard to what I just said but I think he needs to reflect on the term "voluntary leave". Perhaps on the next occasion, he might explain it to us in fuller terms, even if there remains a potential legal or employment claim. I do not think he has been best advised on the term. It is not a legal term, or certainly not one with which I am...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Ms Eade might help me understand that. HRI extended an opportunity to the IHRB to be part of a voluntary severance arrangement.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: HRI wanted to have opportunities for people who had been with the organisation for a long time to leave in a voluntary manner.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: That was the essence of the reason for the voluntary scheme.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It was to allow people, on a voluntary basis, to leave the organisation.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: HRI agreed to fund that process.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I can understand how there might be a business case for doing that, even beyond purely financial ones.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Was a specific application made to fund a severance payment above the terms?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Does the scheme allow for additional or side payments?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Would HRI be expected to be aware of any additional or side payments made in addition to the scheme that is approved?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Surely from a funding and precedent perspective, HRI would also expect to be made aware if additional payments that were not funded by it were being made.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It was not made aware.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: What does Ms Eade mean when she says not formally?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: There may have been proof----