Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Charlotte Olhausen:
Another piece of infrastructure already in place is the work and access programme. I have just gone through the process.
One of the programme's aspects is an option to pick assistive technology. That area could be expanded to include more AI-enabled tools and so on. Although there are some issues there from a policy recommendation perspective, it needs to be made more accessible as a process. There is not much awareness about it. Again, that speaks to the accessibility of public information and communication on such schemes.