Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I can imagine.

My next question relates to AI, the cloud and big data. We know that the national AI strategy refers to all those things as being here for good, and fingers crossed for that. We know that big data, AI, analytics, the cloud and so on are essential technologies which will be key drivers for productivity and innovation and will enable us, exactly as Ms Carberry said, to be on the front foot. However, we are either static or drifting as regards digitisation of businesses in this regard. What is being done to increase the adoption of these technologies, especially among the SME community? It is possibly easier for the bigger companies. The smaller ones are, in my humble and possibly ill-informed opinion, the ones that could potentially benefit the most but the ones that have the least time to be able to harness this. In terms of the Department's work, what is being done to drive this among the SME community?

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