Naoise Ó Cearúil (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

I apologise for having been in and out. Another committee is meeting at the same time and I am Leas-Chathaoirleach of that committee so it makes it quite difficult. I appreciate the opening statement which I read through in detail prior to the meeting.

For context, my background is in industry and I worked in AI prior to being elected to this House. I am also the Fianna Fáil party spokesperson on artificial intelligence. I come at it from having professional experience as well. My first set of questions relates to funding and the innovation pipeline. The witnesses referenced €400 million in research investment and 760 PhD students. How much of this is genuinely on AI commercialisation and not just academic outputs? I ask them to outline any success stories about any research pieces around that.