Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Declan McLoughlin:
To make another point on the trends and analysis, our director of research started this week. There will be a research unit that will build out with staff in the coming months.
Research is something that we have identified as being really important to inform not only our own work but also the public. We will also be hiring data analysts, data engineers and so on to interrogate data which will feed into the wider range of work. I do not want to speak for what we might do in the future but I expect research very specific to our remit on online safety and wider research will be part of our future outputs and activities.