Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion
2:00 am
Naoise Ó Cearúil (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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I will move on to transparency mechanisms. I do see the benefits of various Departments and, I suppose, the State utilising AI for efficiency gains, particularly as we see so much inefficiency in the system and systems. Does Professor MacCarthaigh think a central registry of Government AI systems, from which public summarised data would be available, would be beneficial to ensure that there is transparency and that people know something is being used to help compile reports or whatever or that a particular system is being used to help improve waiting times for particular types of surgery?