Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)

It now falls to me. I will invert Deputy O'Connor’s question and put it to Professor Smeaton and Dr. Leavy. Rather than what keeps them up at night - they will have a moment to think about this because I will put a question to Dr. Seoighe first - what excites them about what is happening with this new technology? Related to the last point, which is the question around us as policymakers and legislators dealing with this issue, what is the question they would like us to ask of those in the tech sector and other areas?

I might come to Dr. Seoighe because Research Ireland is doing an incredible amount of work in a lot of centres. The hope is that our committee will visit some of those centres over the course of the next period. What can the State do to support research into artificial intelligence, whether on the computing or public policy side? What is Dr. Seoighe's recommendation to the committee?