Artificial Intelligence
Dail Éireann — 2026-04-28
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Aindrias Moynihan (FF), Cork North-West

I want to move the focus towards job protection. The real risk from AI is not so much AI itself as the poorly managed adoption of AI.
Where we have seen agentic and autonomous systems, as I mentioned earlier, they must not just assist with the work but should carry out tasks and co-ordinate workflows. Where people are trained to supervise and validate the work alongside the AI, productivity can grow; where that training is absent, it looks like the AI will almost substitute for the person. Smaller businesses are expected to redesign roles, supervise autonomous systems and comply with the EU AI Act, and to do all that at speed. How are AI initiatives being accelerated beyond basic literary into practical job-protecting capabilities? How are these skill supports being used to help SMEs manage change without job displacement?

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Sitting date: 2026-04-28