Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. John Sherwin:
We are going to have to scale up the involvement of DPOs with our ability to respond to requests. We have a lot of requests to sit on boards and panels that have significant time and resource impacts and it is not always possible.
There are some boards, panels and executives that we should be on all the time and there are others that we would maybe have to have a visiting input to rather than sitting on them full time. Also, our frame of reference in terms of how these services impact disabled and deaf individuals may not have the broader expertise that people want in relation to sitting on a committee full time. However, the first point should be the consideration of that. Is it a permanent seat? Is it a regular seat? Is it a consultation-----
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