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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about transport infrastructure, of which buses are the easiest, quickest and cheapest part to deploy. Every day, pretty much, I get emails about the state of the bus services in Ballycullen, Knocklyon and Rathfarnham. The 15 bus service is the busiest route in Dublin and the 15B is also grossly overcrowded. What is happening is that buses routinely fill up in the morning...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [53243/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Can I ask whether we are going to schedule a debate about the new principle being espoused by a presidential candidate that TDs should have to declare previous professional work relating to a topic before speaking on it in the Dáil? For example, the Minister of justice, who I thought spoke well on this yesterday, would have to declare, before he spoke about violence, if he was ever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I was also of the understanding that there would be two separate discussions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Herrick for his opening statement on IHREC's work. He indicated that the commission has been designated as one of the fundamental rights regulators. Has it received any extra resourcing as a result of that designation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: To clarify, Mr. Herrick is saying that, as far as he knows, none of the bodies designated as fundamental rights regulators of high-risk AI under the EU AI Act have been given any extra resources to enable them to do that work. To my knowledge, no. We have taken the initiative to convene meetings of the designated Article 77 bodies. From our perspective, we are examining how we might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Herrick have any idea of the sorts of resources he would need, the number of staff and the amount required to have appropriate funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Keatinge for that. It was mentioned last week that AI is being used in the public sector to process grant applications in the Department of agriculture, to streamline the process, etc. The officials stated this was not high-risk activity. At the very least, it is a grey area in some respects. It definitely seems to me that if such a process were to be used for social welfare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Herrick. One of the points our guests made is that they have raised concerns with the Department of public expenditure and reform over the fact that its guidelines on the responsible use of AI in the public service do not refer to the public sector human rights and equality duty. We had officials from that Department in here last week and it was striking that their opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations, which I very much agree with. On the Erin chatbot, Dr. Shrishak said that he learned through FOI requests that the Department did not run a tender process, performed no risk assessment, no bias tests and no environmental impact assessment for any of these. That is obviously very concerning. It would seem very unusual that there was no tender...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: How did it end up being deployed if it was not supposed to be deployed? Who made that decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Related to that is the issue of a legal disclaimer being attached to chatbots saying, "We're telling you this, but don't take it too seriously because we're only a chatbot". Am I correct that the product liability directive would effectively mean that these legal disclaimers are certainly misleading and have no legal force? Therefore, if, for example, people get wrong information through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: In that case it would be between the Department of justice and Microsoft.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I wish to explore the dangers of locating the AI office within the Department of enterprise. It seems there is a danger of regulatory capture there where the AI office would be subordinated to the mission of the Department, which is to promote business interests and profitability. We have obviously seen regulatory capture in the past in this country with devastating impact involving the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Herrick earlier made the point about big tech companies pushing a model of self-regulation. They claim that governments should not get in their way with messy regulation because they are leading the way to the future. If big tech has its way, that is what they will recommend and that the best thing for us to do is to let them rip, but we should not go along with that.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Irish neutrality is now defined only as formal non-membership of NATO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether Carlow County Council has applied for funding from the Traveller Accommodation Unit for Traveller-specific accommodation and a Traveller liaison officer; if so, the response from the Department to these specific requests; and if the funding was denied, the reason. [57218/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the €34 million in Budget 2026 being allocated to support the Traveller community, including for the delivery of new accommodation, and repair and maintenance work. [57221/25]