Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is back to that piece of head-in-the-sand where people may feel it does not impact them and does not have a role to play in their industry or in education or retail. If people working in those areas do not see how AI can impact them positively, it may be a question they want to park to one side and feel that it does not affect them. It is a body of work for me, the Department, and the Government to ensure that people know the guardrails are in place and that they have confidence in our national AI office when it is established. I compliment the advisory council on all the work it had done long before I came into the role. Ensuring public trust has been the top of its list of priorities. Our body of work is to convince people and to have that education-awareness piece around that.