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Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I ask the Minister of State about the Forty-first Amendment to the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024, which I understand is before the Seanad. Will the Government support its passage and enactment so it is ready in time for a referendum?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: For once, I am at a loss for words. I am absolutely thrilled with this news. I thank and congratulate the Minister for listening to what I had to say, taking on board what I said and actually making the change happen. It is an example that shows that this House actually works. If Ministers like her listen to colleagues across the House with regard to suggestions such as this and then...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: Thank you. I am from Cork.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for selecting this issue and the Minister for being here to respond. I have been raising this issue for quite some time in committee, in the Chamber and with colleagues. It has to do with Irish companies and foreign direct investment, FDI, companies located here that require staff to come from abroad to work here for a limited period. They bring leadership...

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.

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?