• Independent Senator (University of Dublin)
• Entered the Seanad on 25 April 2016 — General election
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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

“I welcome the Minister of State. On the digital sandbox, currently there is a digital divide. There is a literacy divide and a digital literacy divide on top of that. If those who are behind in digital literacy do not have the literacy levels to engage in the testing of different innovations or technologies within a sandbox, and if there is a divide in the interaction with what happens...”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

“How does the sandbox protect against the vulnerabilities or the inequities in-built into financial institutions and so on? If people are not proficient enough to engage, how does a sandbox work when only those who are either privileged enough or proficient enough are able to engage?”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

“The testing of it would potentially have either bias or inadequacies in it. Does it risk having inequity built into it if we are testing particular technologies or innovations within the sandbox but have a cohort of people who cannot participate in that?”

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• Has spoken in 37 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among Senators.
• People have made 1 comment on this Senator's speeches — well above average among Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 662 times in debates — well above average among Senators.
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