{"id":611796,"date":"2026-07-30T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/611796\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:35:14","slug":"should-tds-be-allowed-to-use-ai-to-write-parliamentary-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/611796\/","title":{"rendered":"Should TDs be allowed to use AI to write parliamentary questions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FROM SEPTEMBER, TDS will have to use a new system to submit parliamentary questions to ministers in an effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/ai-parliamentary-questions-7116453-Jul2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ease pressure caused by AI use.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the summer recess, concerns had been raised about a bottleneck in the system amid a sharp increase in the number of queries this D\u00e1il term.<\/p>\n<p>So far in 2026, TDs have asked 50,012 questions, compared with 40,466 in the same period last year, an increase of 19%.<\/p>\n<p>From September, when the D\u00e1il returns after the summer recess, TDs will submit PQs via the internal Oireachtas \u00c1is-Linn system (which is already used for submitting things like speaker lists and topical issues) rather than via email.<\/p>\n<p>So in today\u2019s poll, we wanted to ask:\u00a0<strong>Should TDs be allowed to use AI to write parliamentary questions?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FROM SEPTEMBER, TDS will have to use a new system to submit parliamentary questions to ministers in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[291,289,9,10,49927,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,258201,7931,7,8,7932],"class_list":["post-611796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dail","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-parliamentary-question","tag-poll","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-your-say"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117009430959251797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}