Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Rebecca Keatinge:
I do not want to speak for the other Article 77 bodies but from our perspective, we are all established statutory bodies. We have been identified because we already have expertise and functions in the relevant area. It is just that everything needs to be speeded up and expedited. If there is a role there, that would be very helpful to put the pressure on, to increase the dialogue and to put the processes in motion. It is such a complex structure. The Data Protection Commission is involved in our structure. It obviously has a huge amount of expertise in this area having led on the data protection regime. There is a huge amount of shared learning that can be mapped onto this. It is really just that it needs to be moved on at this stage.