James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)

I thank all the witnesses. I hope we see the returning witnesses, including Professor Smeaton, again.

I will start with some of the questions I posed at the previous meeting. The AI summit seemed to be a big moment in Europe for how we will respond regulatorily to the developments in AI. A lot of the talk at a political level was that Europe was very much about regulation while America was very much about innovation. What we definitely do not want to see happen in Europe or in our country is that we emulate or copy what seems to be taking place in the United States at present where there is a bit of a free-for-all on the regulatory side. How does Ireland lead the regulatory debate in Europe? We are well placed to lead it based on the fact that at least eight of the large language model, LLM, companies are based here. Surely, we are ideally placed to lead that debate on regulation. What are the representatives' thoughts on that?