James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)

I am not saying this to discount the issues raised, particularly those raised by Ms Blackwell, which need to be viewed through a criminal justice prism in many respects and it frustrates me that we are not able to have a discussion about innovation in AI and safeguarding children as if they are sort of binary choices. In the witnesses' peer groups, what is the overwhelming emotion or feeling around AI? The witnesses are all here with their official hats on, doing great work for young people, and are focused on those things but I get a sense that the overriding narrative in public discourse and media in Ireland and everywhere else is one where fear may be at the higher end of it but, among the witnesses' generation, what kind of feelings does AI provoke among their peer groups, generally speaking?