Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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46. To ask the Taoiseach 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; and what programmes or Department operations, if any, are conducted using artificial intelligence tools. [3870/25]

Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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The National Cyber Security Centre and the Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform have published guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public service which has been made available to all staff in the Department of the Taoiseach. While staff have attended conferences/webinars to explore and better understand the potential for and impact of AI, the Department had no specific spend on AI systems or research in the past fiscal year and no funding has been allocated for such purposes in 2025.

While many computerised systems have AI built into them the Department of the Taoiseach does not conduct any operations using generative AI tools.