Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)

My final question relates to Deputy Geoghegan's, which is a big issue we need to grapple with. For all its flaws, the EU has made a good first stab with the AI Act. Whether we like the phrase or not, we are in a global AI arms race at the moment. Clearly, the values at the European level are not shared in the United States and, even more worrying, in countries like China, Russia and Iran. I am even thinking about procurement policies. When the Government looks to procure platforms, do we specifically exclude particular countries? Do we look at it at an EU level to take action with regard to particular countries? We have concerns under data protection where some European citizens' data is being stored. Do we similarly need to show concern around how AI is being deployed for the abuse of human rights in some of those other countries when we are hiring or employing platforms?