Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Rosita Apaza Machaca:

Companies need to be held accountable and the system has to be transparent. If the system is not transparent, it will fail. When creating legislation, it has to be inclusive, but there is no point having a carrot and a stick if you cannot use the stick, if that makes sense.

They have to be held accountable. There has to be a point where we say, if data is breached, this is the consequence and the consequence has to follow through. They have to be held accountable.