PQ 1655
1655. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to detail whether his Department uses or have ever used any forms of artificial intelligence (details supplied) to assist with or process citizenship applications or related documentation; at what stage in the process of handling this documentation have these systems been used; who authorised the decision to use these systems; the company that provides services; to provide an exhaustive record of all contracts to companies that have provided his Department with such systems in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; the value of these contracts; to outline in detail the extent of any human oversight of these systems, their outputs, their decision-making capacity or the procedures they are embedded in; if he will publish any written or digitally available protocols used by his Department around the use of such systems that have been made available within his Department via email, print, social media or any other online platform or intranet; if there is any means by which his Department can assess the accuracy of these systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74561/25]
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1655. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to detail whether his Department uses or have ever used any forms of artificial intelligence (details supplied) to assist with or process citizenship applications or related documentation; at what stage in the process of handling this documentation have these systems been used; who authorised the decision to use these systems; the company that provides services; to provide an exhaustive record of all contracts to companies that have provided his Department with such systems in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; the value of these contracts; to outline in detail the extent of any human oversight of these systems, their outputs, their decision-making capacity or the procedures they are embedded in; if he will publish any written or digitally available protocols used by his Department around the use of such systems that have been made available within his Department via email, print, social media or any other online platform or intranet; if there is any means by which his Department can assess the accuracy of these systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74561/25]
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2026-01-13/1655/
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