Ms Grace French:

How AI will look in ten to 15 years depends heavily on how the Government reacts to it now. It could go very wrong, with people constantly relying on the Internet - a lot of young people have completely lost their sense of creativity - and our data continuing to be harvested, or it could turn into a really useful tool in education and for people who are poor, who can use the information to help them to study and for other things.

One of the recommendations I believe the committee should bring forward to the Government is that we need significant fines for AI companies if children's data is stolen or harvested in any way. If they breach this, the Government should consider taking them off the Irish tech landscape because it is just not acceptable.