8. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15510/25]
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People want to know what is so impressive about Brendan McDonagh's CV that he is worth almost €500,000 a year to be the so-called housing tsar. They will be outraged when they find out that his qualification is not experience in addressing the housing crisis but instead in causing it. He has been CEO of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, since 2009, when he was appointed by the late Brian Lenihan. It took on loans on land and property originally valued at €88 billion. That gave the State control of almost all development land suitable for housing. Over the next 16 years, Brendan McDonagh flogged it all off for less than half the price. Some 90% of it went to US vulture funds, which sold it back to the same developers who took out the bad loans in the first place for far less than they originally owed. It was an absolute scam, which cost the people €34 billion and has left vulture funds and property developers hoarding all of the housing and development land that we need to solve the housing crisis. How on earth can the Government appoint Brendan McDonagh to solve a crisis he created?
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19. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [15511/25]
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The Government is drunk on the propaganda of big tech with regard to AI. It is so drunk that it is trying to force AI into the leaving certificate examination. From September, students will be allowed to use AI as an additional assessment component, which will be worth at least 40% of marks in many subjects. It is meant to be cited in the paper that AI was used but this will give a massive advantage to students from better-off backgrounds who will be able to pay for more advanced AI programmes to give them answers without them being detected and without them being cited. Additional assessment in science subject will require access to labs. Fee-paying private schools might be able to manage that but DEIS schools that can barely keep the lights on will not. A biology teacher told the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, ASTI, conference that DEIS schools will be wiped out. Teachers are so worried about how unfair this is going to be that they are willing to go on strike over it. Will the Taoiseach intervene and at the very least impose a 12-month moratorium on this crazy plan so we can keep AI out of the leaving certificate examination?
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27. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [17100/25]
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Does the Taoiseach agree it is completely inappropriate for the Minister for Justice to act separately from an independent process and to make a finding about a complaint by members of the public about how they were treated by gardaí at the Mothers Against Genocide protest. It is quite incredible that the Minister came out and said footage shows that allegations made in the Dáil about strip-searching of protestors "were false". The Minister did not even claim to have seen this footage. He based what he said on reports from the Garda Commissioner. As Deputy Coppinger pointed out, the Commissioner has not seen the footage. In fact, there is no such footage. It is simply a question of the Minister for Justice hearing from the Commissioner that the Garda had investigated itself and - do not worry - found it had done nothing wrong. That is absolutely incredible. Does the Taoiseach agree there needs to be an independent process? We repeated the stories the women told us. We believe the Mothers Against Genocide. We repeated those stories not just in the Dáil, where there is the question of use of Dáil privilege, but also outside. We are fully free, able and willing to continue to do that. Does the Taoiseach agree that there needs to be an independent process and that the Minister should withdraw this incredible attempt to describe these mothers as liars and allow them to proceed with their complaint to Fiosrú before passing judgment?
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He said it was false.
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The Minister said they were false.
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