Artificial Intelligence
An official questions-paper heading. 776 questions (41 oral, 735 written), first 2025-01-22, latest 2026-07-28.
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| Jan 2025 | 23 |
| Feb 2025 | 58 |
| Mar 2025 | 24 |
| Apr 2025 | 104 |
| May 2025 | 19 |
| Jun 2025 | 6 |
| Jul 2025 | 44 |
| Sep 2025 | 10 |
| Oct 2025 | 42 |
| Nov 2025 | 29 |
| Dec 2025 | 38 |
| Jan 2026 | 104 |
| Feb 2026 | 54 |
| Mar 2026 | 9 |
| Apr 2026 | 88 |
| May 2026 | 24 |
| Jun 2026 | 66 |
| Jul 2026 | 34 |
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| Department | Questions |
|---|---|
| Enterprise | 196 |
| Further and Higher Education | 62 |
| Taoiseach | 53 |
| Education | 46 |
| Public Expenditure | 46 |
| Health | 36 |
| Justice | 34 |
| Social | 32 |
| Foreign | 32 |
| Finance | 31 |
| Transport | 30 |
| Agriculture | 27 |
| Children | 27 |
| Housing | 26 |
| Rural | 24 |
| Defence | 24 |
| Culture | 17 |
| Climate | 15 |
| Tourism | 11 |
| Environment | 7 |
Debates under the same heading
Dáil debate sections whose official heading is exactly these words.
| Date | Debate section |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-07 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-06-16 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-06-16 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-06-16 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-05-27 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-05-12 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-04-28 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-02-24 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-02-19 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-02-19 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-02-19 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-01-29 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-01-20 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2025-11-13 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2025-11-13 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2025-09-25 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2025-04-29 | Artificial Intelligence |
| 2025-02-20 | Artificial Intelligence |
The questions
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-29 · to Enterprise
909. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment in view of recent incidents of AI chatbots producing and posting racist and antisemitic content, the steps he is taking to ensure that AI chatbots in use in Ireland do not post hateful and harmful content; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42291/25]
Ruairí Ó Murchú
written
2025-07-29 · to Enterprise
953. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to outline the work being done by his Department and any engagement with other Departments and Government agencies to address concerns around issues such as AI, social media algorithms, disinformation and cybersecurity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43439/25]
Ruairí Ó Murchú
written
2025-07-29 · to Enterprise
954. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to outline the work being done by his Department and any engagement with other Departments and Government agencies and companies to build a strategy for the utilisation of AI for enterprise innovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43440/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-29 · to Enterprise
966. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment in the context of proposals for an AI observatory and the clear impact of AI on the employment market demonstrated in independent research, the concrete actions he will take to pre-empt and mitigate the displacement of labour by AI, particularly in more lucrative industries; and if he will make a statement on the m…
Malcolm Byrne
written
2025-07-17 · to Public Expenditure
61. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide an update on the roll-out of the guidelines for responsible use of artificial intelligence in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40068/25]
Pádraig O'Sullivan
written
2025-07-17 · to Education
164. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps her Department is taking to combat the use of AI in assessments; the concerns her Department has; the steps she is taking to reduce its prevalence; if she will engage with stakeholders to insure the integrity of assessment practices can be protected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38582/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-17 · to Enterprise
266. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department has engaged with representative groups for voice actors on the protection of their work and their voices from use by artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train models or to provide AI-generated voice-overs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40643/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-17 · to Enterprise
274. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment whether additional funding will be granted to the competent authorities and fundamental rights authorities designated under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in order to facilitate the exercise of their duties under the act and ensure a high quality of regulation and application of the Act; and if he will make a s…
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-17 · to Enterprise
281. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the steps his Department have taken to mitigate job losses, job displacement, and lower levels of new recruitment due to the adoption of artificial intelligence, as reported (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40701/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-17 · to Enterprise
282. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if his Department is collecting or tracking any data on labour displacement due to artificial intelligence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40702/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-17 · to Justice
447. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has considered introducing a law to make it an offence to use a person’s features to produce artificial intelligence deepfakes, similar to proposals in Germany and Denmark, particularly in relation to the use of this technology to create revenge porn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40642/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-17 · to Agriculture
474. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 10 July 2025, if he will provide further details on how artificial intelligence is used to analyse content to produce IT documentation; if this is a new output from his Department or replacing a function previously done by an employee; and if he will make a statement on th…
Ivana Bacik
written
2025-07-15 · to Taoiseach
61. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach to report on the updated national digital and AI strategy. [32274/25]
Ruairí Ó Murchú
written
2025-07-15 · to Taoiseach
62. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Taoiseach to report on the updated national digital and AI strategy. [33613/25]
Darren O'Rourke
written
2025-07-15 · to Taoiseach
63. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Taoiseach to report on the updated national digital and AI strategy. [35254/25]
Malcolm Byrne
written
2025-07-15 · to Taoiseach
64. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Taoiseach to report on the updated national digital and AI strategy. [35406/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-15 · to Taoiseach
166. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Taoiseach to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in tabular form. [38627/25]
Peter 'Chap' Cleere
written
2025-07-15 · to Transport
308. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Transport if there are any plans to introduce AI-powered cameras, designed to catch drivers speeding or committing other offenses, like they have in the UK and Australia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-15 · to Enterprise
415. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the funding put in place for the establishment of an AI observatory; whether any of that funding has been drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39102/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-15 · to Enterprise
416. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment for an update on the establishment of an AI office; whether this office will be an independent body; and the remit the office will have. [39103/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
147. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in…
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-10 · to Climate
159. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in ta…
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-10 · to Defence
172. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in tabular form. [38…
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-10 · to Transport
192. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Transport to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in tabular form. [38626/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-10 · to Finance
199. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his Department; the AI technologies the Department uses, the purpose and function of said technology in the context of the work of the Department, and the associated costs of the licensing or use of AI by the Department in the past 12 months, in tabular form. [38617/25]