# AI – Here for Good: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Ireland (2021, refreshed 2024)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Ireland
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Government of Ireland (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)
- **Adopted**: 2021-07-08

## In brief

AI – Here for Good (National AI Strategy) is a non-binding national strategy of Ireland, issued by the Government of Ireland (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment). It was adopted on 8 July 2021. Government programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## Summary

Ireland's national AI strategy, first published in July 2021 and refreshed in November 2024 to reflect the EU AI Act and generative AI, is organised around building public trust, leveraging AI for economic and societal benefit, and enablers such as data, infrastructure, skills and governance. The refresh sets out Ireland's AI Act implementation model, public-sector AI guidelines and an AI advisory council.

## Scope

Government programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## Key dates

2021-07-08: strategy published; 2024-11-05: refresh published.

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0106 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0106; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ireland-ai-here-for-good-national-ai-strategy
- **Official source**: https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/national-ai-strategy.html
- **Source document**: National AI Strategy
- **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/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "AI – Here for Good: National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Ireland (2021, refreshed 2024)" [AIPT-POL-0106, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0106 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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