Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the contributions from Professor Clinch. Many of the questions I had intended to ask have been answered. This is a broader question on Professor Clinch's opinion on ethics in science and technology and society and his vision, given that we are becoming more technologically focused and science is about the matter in front. Is there any vision in respect of empathy and how that can be integrated into the system, particularly for our younger graduates, given that everything is very data driven and less interactive person to person? It goes back to the time in the 1950s and 1960s when atomic energy was coming to the fore but ethics were and became a part of that. What is Professor Clinch's vision on that, given that we are very data driven?