Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 6 February 2025
2. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs 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 programmes or Department operations are conducted using artificial intelligence tools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3708/25]
View answerMy Department is actively exploring the opportunities presented by artificial intelligence and the various policy considerations that arise. None of the Department’s current programmes or services are driven by Generative AI models.
A limited amount of research has been done within the Department’s ICT Unit on Large Language Models (LLM) that has incurred approximately €25,000 in infrastructure costs. There is no specific allocation for next year. There are no agencies under my Department’s aegis.
