Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. John Sherwin:
Europe has probably one of the better track records for enforcing legislation as far as big tech companies are concerned, whether it is fines or data-related issues and penalties. I see that this is a trend that needs to continue. Ireland can follow EU directives and apply them here. It would be important that Ireland would implement those. I do see the EU doing work. It needs to be expanded on. A lot of the time when we bring things to the table here, we cite EU directives or legislation and ask for consideration of that in a domestic sense. There are models there to be looked at.