Irish Medical Organisation

Lobbying Organisation Irish Medical Organisation

Date published 21 May, 2026

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 Jan. 2026 to 30 Apr. 2026

Specific Details HIQA Draft national guidance on the responsible and safe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the health and social care services.

Intended results To highlight potential issues in relation to the deplyment of AI in healthcare inclusing downstream worlkoad implications, transfer of risk to individual clinicians and risk of insitutional misuse. To address the unrealistic expectations placed on clinicians and to ensure that oversight, validation, bias mitigation, and performance monitoring rests with the deploying body and not with individual clinicians.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Ms Vanessa Hetherington

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Submission (1)

Submission on the HIQA Draft national guidance on the responsible and safe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the health and social care services.

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Rachel Flynn Director of Health Information and Standards (Health Information and Quality Authority)