The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment has published the General Scheme of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026, aiming to fully implement the EU AI Act in Ireland. This national legislation is necessary to establish supervision and enforcement mechanisms for the EU AI Act obligations. The scheme proposes a distributed model of competent authorities, leveraging existing sectoral regulators, and plans to establish a new statutory independent body, Oifig Intleachta Shaorga na hÉireann (AI Office of Ireland), to act as the central coordinating authority and single point of contact for AI regulation enforcement in the state.
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