IrelandAI regulation

Regulation Status

• Ireland has no comprehensive standalone national AI law yet; binding regulation flows from the EU AI Act, with implementing legislation and the AI Office of Ireland still at the bill stage.
• As an EU member state, Ireland is implementing the EU AI Act through the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026, published in June 2026 after the February 2026 General Scheme, adopting a distributed model of multiple national competent authorities (eight initial bodies in March 2025, expanded to 15 in September 2025) with central coordination through the Department of Enterprise and the proposed AI Office of Ireland.
• The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 is framed as a technical implementing measure for the EU AI Act and would establish the AI Office of Ireland as an independent statutory central authority, provide market surveillance authorities with enforcement tools from compliance notices to sanctions, and enable designated authorities to receive complaints, supervise compliance and impose administrative penalties.
• The Data Protection Commission has been a leading EU regulator on AI and data, prompting Meta to pause EU AI training (2024), ending court proceedings against X over Grok training data, and opening inquiries into Google, X/Grok, LinkedIn and DeepSeek, including a 2026 investigation into non-consensual sexualised images generated via Grok.
• A separate National Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 proposed by a Fianna Fail TD would create a National Artificial Intelligence Office for independent oversight of high-risk AI; Ireland has also refreshed its national AI strategy, published a Digital Ireland AI strategy (2026), and a parliamentary committee issued an interim report with 85 recommendations (December 2025).