Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I am satisfied that the AI Act within the EU is moving at pace. The Spanish Presidency will prioritise it. At this phase in the EU calendar, things get challenging but every country has agreed on the importance of legislating on AI and everybody accepts the points the Deputy and Deputy Stanton have made. It is moving so quickly and we need to have guard rails in place but, on a broader issue, those guard rails cannot choke innovation in Europe either. We cannot be innovation takers when it comes to AI. Let us acknowledge the risks and protect against them but we should be ambitious in Europe's role in developing it as well. I am confident that when we get to this time next year, we will have had a lot of discussions in this committee on AI legislation.