390. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will commit to the establishment of a youth advisory panel in the establishment of the national artificial intelligence office; if he will outline how the office will ensure the voices of children and young people are heard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51800/25]
Topics / Artificial Intelligence
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsArtificial Intelligence
813 questions from 74 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
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771 written, 42 oral
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| January 2025 | 23 |
| February 2025 | 58 |
| March 2025 | 24 |
| April 2025 | 104 |
| May 2025 | 19 |
| June 2025 | 6 |
| July 2025 | 44 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 10 |
| October 2025 | 42 |
| November 2025 | 29 |
| December 2025 | 38 |
| January 2026 | 104 |
| February 2026 | 54 |
| March 2026 | 9 |
| April 2026 | 88 |
| May 2026 | 24 |
| June 2026 | 66 |
| July 2026 | 34 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 18 |
| October 2026 | 19 |
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414. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on her Department's policy on the use of artificial intelligence in schools. [51181/25]
684. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of members of An Garda Síochána that have formal training in relation to criminal activity through means of artificial intelligence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51405/25]
10. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will provide an update on legislation to establish the national AI office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50480/25]
41. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the measures being considered to ensure that regulatory oversight under the European Union AI Act does not create barriers to AI start-ups and SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50602/25]
67. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the details of the preparations underway for the establishment of the national AI office by August 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50601/25]
88. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Social Protection the means by which his Department plans on using artificial intelligence to speed up the processing of application forms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50482/25]
253. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment when the heads of a Bill will be published to establish a central and coordinating authority for governance of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51097/25]
402. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the work being carried out 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. [47594/25]
720. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 966 of 29 July 2025, the data and research his Department has to support the answer regarding the emergence of new jobs; whether these jobs will be equal or greater than the number of jobs lost to AI; whether the minister is aware of research which indicates AI has led to decreased graduate roles …
857. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the progress made on the creation of an artificial intelligence observatory to monitor the development and impact of AI and provide policy advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40761/25]
860. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if the Government has had any discussions regarding the development of a sovereign artificial intelligence system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40783/25]
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]
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]
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]
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 matter. [43889/25]
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]
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]
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]
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 statement on the matt…
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]
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]
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]
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 the matter. [40561/25]
61. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach to report on the updated national digital and AI strategy. [32274/25]