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 |
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| 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
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Further and Higher Education
435. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will identify any projects which a body under the aegis of his Department has underway with CeADAR, Ireland’s national centre for AI; if he will send this question to the bodies for direct response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18396/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Further and Higher Education
436. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will specify the specific policy areas where the Department is examining future use of AI; if he will identify what entities the Department is working with, public or private, in relation to this examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18413/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Further and Higher Education
437. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will identify any AI training offered to people working in the Department; the level of take-up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18430/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Further and Higher Education
440. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will detail whether any surveys have been carried out to estimate the amount of time taken up with administrative tasks where such time could be used more efficiently; if so, in which areas of the Department has this examination been carried out; and if he will make a statement o…
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Rural
442. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will outline the steps his Department is taking to improve data collection and database construction in anticipation of the increased data processing capacity that artificial intelligence adoption entails; if he will outline the logic behind their approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18366…
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Rural
443. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will identify any projects which the Department has underway with CeADAR, Ireland’s national centre for AI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18383/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Rural
444. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will identify any projects which a body under the aegis of his Department has underway with CeADAR, Ireland’s national centre for AI; if he will send this question to the bodies for direct response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18401/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Rural
445. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will specify the specific policy areas where the Department is examining future use of AI; if he will identify what entities the Department is working with, public or private, in relation to this examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18418/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-10 · to Rural
446. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will identify any AI training offered to people working in the Department; the level of take-up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18435/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-09 · to Agriculture
220. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.129 of November 2011, if he will direct bodies (details supplied) to outline specific examples of where artificial intelligence has been adopted in their operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17989/25]
Rose Conway-Walsh
written
2025-04-08 · to Taoiseach
53. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [14196/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-03 · to Public Expenditure
118. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans to use AI to support public service reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15840/25]
Robert O'Donoghue
written
2025-04-03 · to Enterprise
210. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with Meta about the reported use of pirated creative works to train its AI models, including thousands of books produced by Irish creators and publishers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16359/25]
Aidan Farrelly
written
2025-04-03 · to Education
217. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education the policy and or guidance developed and disseminated by her Department to schools and teachers on the use of AI by students, particularly in cases where there is a possibility of students submitting work in homework, assessments and or continual assessment and or examinations of which they are not the author of and have relied on AI to g…
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-03 · to Housing
253. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 988 of 19 March 2025, if he can refer the question asked to the State bodies under his Department's aegis for a direct response to this Deputy given all other Ministers did in response to the same question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16452/25]
Ivana Bacik
written
2025-04-01 · to Taoiseach
80. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [5755/25]
Shane Moynihan
written
2025-04-01 · to Taoiseach
82. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [10806/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-04-01 · to Foreign
152. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if artificial intelligence innovation will be a key theme of Ireland’s EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15526/25]
Liam Quaide
written
2025-04-01 · to Enterprise
352. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of copyright infringements (details supplied); the steps his Department are taking to protect Irish authors and their copyrighted material from tech companies using pirated material to train their AI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15420/25]
Liam Quaide
written
2025-04-01 · to Enterprise
356. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of copyright infringements (details supplied); the steps his Department are taking to protect Irish authors and their copyrighted material from tech companies using pirated material to train their AI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15425/25]
Pat Buckley
written
2025-04-01 · to Enterprise
357. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action that will be taken to protect Irish authors and their copyrighted material in the face of both piracy and the use of pirated material by a company (details supplied) to train its GenAI protocols (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15472/25]
Aindrias Moynihan
written
2025-03-27 · to Further and Higher Education
59. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science what role has the use of artificial intelligence in our education system and how it is delivered at third level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14615/25]
Emer Currie
written
2025-03-27 · to Justice
318. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice if it is intended to amend data protection rules to support Irish-based enterprises to maximise the use of available digital data to train their AI models; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14662/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-03-19 · to Taoiseach
110. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Taoiseach to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the aegis of his Department. [12928/25]
James Geoghegan
written
2025-03-19 · to Foreign
135. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to identify specific examples where artificial intelligence has been adapted for the operation of his Department and each body under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12920/25]