Dáil Reform committee is meeting this afternoon, with PQ overload on the agenda - Labour Party whip Duncan Smith says he’ll be proposing an outright ban on AI-generated questions (though admitting it can be hard to identify exactly which ones they might be)
Gavan Reilly
TDs are on course to table a record number of parliamentary questions this year – a vital tool of political accountability.
But there’s a snag: the system isn’t designed to cope with that many, and officials tell me the volume is starting to choke them.
This week’s column for @thejournal.ie:
That’s almost double the number posed by this time in 2024, overwhelming officials, and nobody seems to know how to fix it.