Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and the State: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Liam Herrick:
To add to that, the Deputy is absolutely correct. We have two advantages. We talked about the national enforcement mechanisms, but across Europe we have a robust system of enforcement. It sits alongside the enforcement mechanism under the Digital Services Act and GDPR.
There is a strong body of enforcement. All of the European approach is underpinned by the Council of Europe convention and the principles of human dignity, equality, respect for privacy and personal data, transparency and oversight, reliability and safe innovation. The design of the system here is very strong. It is just a question of replicating that at national level.