Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion
2:00 am
Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)
A lot of those life events obviously involve health. One of my biggest frustrations has been the failure to digitise health records for a long time. At the same time, as Mr. Lowry mentioned, we are seeing AI being used to identify tumours and illnesses. It is transformational. To be blunt, given that the HSE and the Department of Health have failed so far to properly digitalise health records, can Mr. Lowry give me confidence that we will see the effective deployment of AI for improved health outcomes within our health system?
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