# Ireland

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Ireland
- **ISO code**: IE
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Northern Europe

## In brief

Ireland has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. EU AI Act applies; competent authorities designated in phases; national AI strategy refreshed 2024. Regulators include Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Data Protection Commission. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Ireland applies the EU AI Act and hosts the European headquarters of many large AI and platform companies, which gives the Irish Data Protection Commission a central role in GDPR enforcement affecting AI training. The national AI strategy "AI – Here for Good" (2021, refreshed 2024) frames a people-centred approach; the government designated an initial set of competent authorities for the AI Act in 2024–2025 and is establishing a national AI office within the Department of Enterprise.

## Regulatory status

EU AI Act applies; competent authorities designated in phases; national AI strategy refreshed 2024.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AI – Here for Good (National AI Strategy).

## Current priorities

Setting up the national AI office and distributed supervision model, public-sector AI guidelines, GDPR enforcement on AI training data.

## Regulators

- Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment — Lead department for AI policy and AI Act implementation — https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/national-ai-strategy.html
- Data Protection Commission — Data-protection authority; lead supervisor for many AI companies under the GDPR — https://www.dataprotection.ie/

## How to use this profile

- Start from the EU AI Act record for obligations; use this page for the national authorities, penalties and strategy.
- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Check national data-protection, employment and consumer law that applies to AI systems regardless of the AI Act.

## Official sources

- National AI Strategy: AI – Here for Good (2021, refresh 2024) — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment — https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/national-ai-strategy.html

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **AI – Here for Good: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Ireland (2021, refreshed 2024)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ireland-ai-here-for-good-national-ai-strategy
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ireland-ai-here-for-good-national-ai-strategy.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/ireland
- **Official source**: https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/national-ai-strategy.html
- **Source document**: National AI Strategy: AI – Here for Good (2021, refresh 2024)
- **Published by**: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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