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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I also believe a Minister for AI should be appointed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank our guests for giving of their time and we have had a really interesting discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I apologise for being late this morning. I was in the Dáil Chamber. There is some news that may be of interest to the Chair and is, perhaps, related to the issue being discussed here. I was pushing this for quite some time with the Government. It has now decided that spouses and partners of intracompany transfer employment permit holders can work here straight away. They do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I welcome the Tánaiste and his officials. I thank the Tánaiste for the work he is doing in both defence and in foreign affairs. He is working extremely hard and has some marvellous officials as well who are doing great work too, so I thank him for that. I am sure the Tánaiste has seen that there has been a call for the Government to impose sanctions on Israel. Could the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Tánaiste. Does he have an estimate of how many Irish citizens are living in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: Could the Tánaiste come back to me on the others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: The Tánaiste mentioned the Arab peace plan in his address. Could he give us an update on where that is at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I ask the Tánaiste to characterise our relationship with Israel at the moment. We have been quite outspoken, and rightly so, in my view, with respect to the activities it is undertaking and the atrocities in Gaza. How would the Tánaiste characterise or describe our relationship with Israel at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I move on to the Ukraine situation. We see, with some alarm, what is happening in the last couple of days with Russia advancing. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are also constructing a Baltic defence line, costing €303 million and counting. From the Tánaiste's discussion with our colleagues in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, how concerned are they with what is happening on their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: If they were attacked, are we obliged to come to their assistance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: Are we obliged as Europeans?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: Could the Tánaiste give us some details on what is going to happen and what is happening with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I refer to the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: It is many years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: Could the Tánaiste give us an update on the German-led battle group and Ireland's involvement there? How many troops are involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: The Tánaiste mentioned in his remarks that there were frozen Russian assets. Are any of those frozen assets in Ireland and how much is there overall in Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: Today there was a report in relation to the EU defence grants that Ireland drew down €11.6 million and we actually contributed €175 million. Has the Tánaiste any comment on why our draw down is so small?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I have just three more brief questions. Electronic cyber warfare was mentioned earlier along with deepfake videos, and I think the Tánaiste himself had been part of something like that at some stage. What is the Government doing to ensure that when these things appear on someone's social media feed, people are prepared to not accept it at face value? Do we need to have a campaign at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: Just before polling day, something could be posted on social media and it could destroy somebody and they have no recourse whatsoever. It could impact the outcome of an election. This is extraordinarily serious. The reason I am bringing it up here is that we are talking about foreign actors who are doing this. We have to take this extraordinarily seriously, especially with the advent of...