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

David Stanton: It is a very good suggestion. It is something we need to start seriously looking at. This whole technology area is moving so fast it is being called the fourth industrial revolution. I have been looking at some stuff recently. From the time paper was invented to when the printing press was invented, took 75 generations. This technology has moved forward in less than half a generation....

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

David Stanton: Okay. It is an interesting concept whereby companies get a third party to simulate a cyberattack.

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

David Stanton: We are all concerned about the fact that white-collar workers will be more impacted than blue-collar workers by this technology. I was a teacher in a former life. I have seen that GenAI can actually become a scarily good teacher. It also works well for interpretation skills. We can speak into this and it will speak back in any language required. It is a bit like what they had in Star...

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

David Stanton: Well done. Deputy Shanahan has it. I was just testing to see if he was paying attention. We now have a universal translator. It goes on and on. So many jobs which we cannot even guess at now will be impacted by this technology. Would the witnesses agree that the legal profession, among other white-collar professions, is concerned about this?

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

David Stanton: We could talk about the impact on politics, which probably does not impact on the witnesses. This is being created by businesses in many ways. My good friend here could be portrayed as saying something terrible just before polling day. That would destroy his political career and he would not be able to do anything about it. The videos are so realistic. We need to start educating people...

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

David Stanton: This is hugely important. It worries the hell out of me because any of us in politics could be impacted by this and we could be destroyed.

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

David Stanton: I will ask one final question, if I may. We know this can be used to create miracle drugs and do an awful lot in medicine. It can edit DNA and people can even do that now in the back of a garage. They do not need a laboratory. Anyone can do this because it is open source. With respect to rare diseases, it can also create pathogens. That is the other, dark side of this. No one country...

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

David Stanton: That last point would raise the old issue of bias and so forth. One of my sons used a pair of terms against me once, saying there were digital natives and digital immigrants. That raises the issue of older people who were not born in the information age. I have seen it proposed that using this technology changes the way we think, as all new technologies have done in the past. The...

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

David Stanton: This is going to impact on every area of life as we know it. We will probably need many more AI Acts in various areas to contain it to some extent. I doubt we can control it, given how large it is growing. We have the world’s computing power at our fingertips. We can ask Google, Alexa, Siri, ChatGPT or whatever and have an answer within seconds. AI can do all of the other tasks...

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.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Colm Burke: I fully understand where the Deputy is coming from in relation to any person having difficulty accessing dental care. It is clearly set out in the statement, "The HSE is required to support the provision of emergency care to adult medical card holders who have difficulty accessing a local dentist." Access to dental care, including for adult medical card holders, is a top priority for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 10.25 p.m. go dtí 9.10 a.m., Dé Céadaoin, an 1 Bealtaine 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 10.25 p.m. until 9.10 a.m. on Wednesday, 15 May 2024.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, for being here tonight. I am raising the long waiting list for dentures, specifically for people over 70. I want to go back to a newspaper article in January 2009, which appeared under the subheading: "Dentures will be rationed for medical card holders as part of a wave of Health Service Executive ... cutbacks, dentists representatives...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank Deputy Buckley for raising this matter. I am dealing with this reply on behalf of the Minister. Dentures and denture repairs for medical card holders are provided by contractors through the dental treatment services scheme, DTSS, which provides dental care, free of charge, to medical card holders aged 16 and over. Denture-related items are available from both dentists who hold a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State. I respect the response outlined. I am well aware that new dentures can be provided every five years, but that is if a patient can access a dentist. That is the issue here. Then there is the medical stuff that goes with it. Oral health is vital. The Minister of State's written statement reads, "The HSE is required to support the provision of emergency...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Events (14 May 2024)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, to which I am replying on behalf of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. It is important to note that the GAA, like all national governing bodies, NGBs, in sport, is an independent, autonomous body. The management of broadcasting and commercial rights is entirely a matter for the association. The GAA, like all NGBs,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Events (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I do not accept the Minister of State's assertion that there is no role for the Government in this matter. Hurling is not just another sport. It is our national game. It is part of our culture and tradition. It is what Irish people from the island of Ireland and all across the world associate with being Irish. To say the Government has no part to play in it, while other sports are on...