Ireland: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence published first interim report

On 16 December 2025, the parliamentary Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence published its first interim report, which includes 85 recommendations. The Joint Committee's recommendations cover measures to institutionalise AI governing bodies, including establishing the Joint Committee itself on a permanent basis, ensuring the full independence of the national AI Office, developing a national AI register, permanently establishing the AI Advisory Council, and founding an AI Observatory. The recommendations also address the regulatory framework at the EU level, warning against the dilution of the EU AI Act and stressing the need to strengthen the EU Copyright Directive. Further, the Joint Committee proposes specific obligations for AI providers and deployers, such as switching off recommendation system by default, banning social media providers from using recommender algorithms on children's accounts, require platform owners to prevent the use of recommendation systems for misinformation campaigns, and introducing mandatory algorithmic impact assessments for high-risk AI systems in public services.