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
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
I will read to Mr. Lowry the definition of the classification of high risk from Annex III of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act:
AI systems intended to be used by public authorities or on behalf of public authorities to evaluate the eligibility of natural persons for essential public assistance benefits and services, including healthcare services, as well as to grant, reduce, revoke, or reclaim such benefits and services.
Mr. Lowry is effectively saying that grant applications to the Department of agriculture would not qualify for that. I presume he would not make the argument that, for example, eligibility for some sort of social welfare benefit would not qualify as being high risk. Would he accept that it would?
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