Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion

2:00 am

Gareth Scahill (Fine Gael)
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The Ministers for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and Transport and the Central Bank are all there already. Mr. Herrick earlier mentioned the regulators and the lack of resources they have. We have one entity that is sitting where it is sitting at the moment and we were one of the first countries to implement this and get this established. This is one of six, I believe. The benefits are there. Is there an example of a country setting up a stand-alone body?