Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a detailed breakdown of all funding allocated for the year ahead or spent in the past fiscal year by his Department on artificial intelligence systems or artificial intelligence research; what programs or Department operations, if any, are conducted using artificial intelligence tools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3701/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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My Department has funded the following Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects in the past fiscal year:

2024 Funding:

• In respect of Cognitive Services, €2,888 was spent over the course of 2024, researching potential artificial intelligence benefits for my Department.
• Related Cloud Infrastructure, to support those services, totalled €2,805 in the same period.

• No new funding has been allocated in the upcoming fiscal year.

• Predicting the likelihood of TB outbreaks.
• Image analysis for identifying species susceptible to H5N1 (Bird flu).
• Customer Segmentation analysis for developing Agri-Food policies.
• Analysis for identifying risk factors for Microbial Food Safety.
• Analysing content to produce IT documentation.
• Automatically Preparing IT test scenarios.

• Smart text analysis to prevent and contain data breaches.