Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Barry Lowry:
The communications will start as soon as we have Government approval to go ahead. We have a communications plan around that and we have two Ministers who are very keen to get involved in the communications of it and have been very supportive of it.
Regarding the plan itself, the reason we picked 193 services is that we believe we can do those collectively by 2030. Everything is geared around 2030 and the end of the digital decade. We have a very strong focus on the second half of next year because Ireland has the Presidency of the Council of the EU. One of the Presidency meetings is where the CIOs from the various countries get together. Obviously, we want to write the Minister a speech which shows that Ireland is actually at the forefront of the digital decade progress plan and not one of the laggards. There is a strong focus on having a really good story to tell.
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