Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Naoise Ó CearúilNaoise Ó Cearúil (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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That is fine. To the credit of the staff, they acted very quickly. I commend them on that. What I am getting to is whether additional powers are required. Will the national AI office have the appropriate regulatory powers when it is established?

I will move on to Professor MacCarthaigh and Dr. Padmanabhan. Having read through and listened to their opening statements, I am interested in discovering whether Ireland could develop sector-specific AI roadmaps with built in accountability frameworks. I refer, for example, to mandatory algorithmic impact assessments for areas like health and housing.