Mr. John Sherwin:

I have some policy recommendations from the Irish Deaf Society paper that would also be relevant. These include recommendations to establish ethical review boards with disabled experts for all projects on AI and sign languages, to recognise and protect people's information and data rights and to mandate transparency about AI and the use of human oversight in deployment. Then, from a legislative perspective, national legislation should mirror and expand upon the EU AI Act to specifically address disability impacts. There is a high-risk classification for AI under the EU AI Act and that should automatically apply for areas around disability and supports for disability, particularly in legal, medical and educational support contexts. It is fair to say the development of AI is way ahead of law throughout the world. We can see a bullish attitude from companies in relation to AI development and there must be some legislative controls there from our perspective or how would the Government have any ability to enforce anything.