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

Photo of Lynn RuaneLynn Ruane (Independent)

I have only a couple of seconds left. Briefly, I go back to agriculture and the €30,000 and €40,000 grant applications and how AI seems relatively harmless in the processing of applications. I have asked this question a few times and have never felt satisfied with the answer. I do not know whether that is because I do not understand what is being said or whether it is the fact that it is unknown. For me, application processes are extremely important because we basically have people who are professional application makers. They know the language of the systems or the people or those in power, and they know what it takes to get a grant. There are people who know what to say and how to say it. That does not mean that this does not ostracise a whole community of people who do not have the same level of not only literacy but also the language of power or the language of the relevant sector or business. How does AI protect those people? It is not just applications; it is also the language we use on applications.

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