Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Kris Shrishak:
They were unwilling to tell us much more beyond that. Basically the response was that no procurement was done and no contracts were available. They could not provide us with any of the implementers' information. There was no vendor information, no impact assessment and no risk assessment. We were told that this is just a chatbot and everything is fine.
On environmental impact assessment, so far we do not know. We actually use freedom of information requests when it comes to environmental information. I think that comes through the Aarhus Convention. So far we have not found any information on this from various governments but we have not asked all the governments yet. We have just started the process of asking different governments about the kind of process they have in place. We are pushing for a transparency register so that people do not need to go around asking every government and every council what kinds of processes they have put in place or what kinds of systems they use in the first place.