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Ireland's record spans an airline and the state — Ryanair gives Gemini to 35,000 staff, passport officials pilot an AI chatbot — under the national AI strategy refreshed in November 2024.

AI readiness
0.69
Rank 25 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
On the record
3
entries across 3 industries
National programme
2024
AI – Here for Good: National AI Strategy (refreshed 2024)
National programme

AI – Here for Good: National AI Strategy (refreshed 2024)

Announced 2024. Its pillars are AI and society, governance for trustworthy AI, AI in Irish enterprise, AI serving the public, research and innovation, education, skills and talent, infrastructure.

Services 56.7% · Industry 37.8% · Agriculture 1.1% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025

Kind
Role
3 entries

Government & Public Sector

1

Passport officials at Foreign Affairs are piloting Ask Finn, an internal AI chatbot.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIreland20 Jan 2026

Irish passport officials pilot the Ask Finn chatbot

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade — Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is piloting Ask Finn, an internal AI chatbot for passport processing, as Passport Service, Revenue and Citizens Information Board officials prepared for the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Revenue's AI models route taxpayer queries more precisely to caseworkers, and Citizens Information is rolling out its AskCI bot.

Passport officerrte.ie

Healthcare & Life Sciences

1

HIQA has issued Ireland's first national guidance on AI in health and social care.

RegulationHealthcare & Life SciencesIreland29 Jul 2026

HIQA issues Ireland's first national guidance on AI in health

Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) — Ireland's Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published the first national guidance on safe, responsible AI in health and social care, commissioned by the Department of Health. New AI must be judged safe and trustworthy before use, and HIQA calls accountability the foundation, requiring clear accountability lines and robust governance for every AI use.

rte.ie

Transport & Logistics

1

Ryanair's five-year deal puts Google Workspace and Gemini in front of 35,000 employees.

DeploymentTransport & LogisticsIreland12 Aug 2026

Ryanair gives Google Workspace and Gemini to 35,000 employees

Ryanair — Ryanair has signed a five-year deal putting Google Workspace and Gemini Enterprise in front of 35,000 employees, aiming AI in aviation at crew logistics, decision automation and corporate productivity. It also plans Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve and WeatherNext models for maintenance scheduling and fleet operations; no deployment timeline was given.

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Europe
Ireland0.69United Kingdom0.73Czechia—Hungary—Estonia—Belarus—European Union0.66Albania—Germany0.75Netherlands0.77Switzerland—Andorra—Croatia—Russia—Belgium0.67France0.70Guernsey—Italy0.62Malta—Serbia—Spain0.65Austria0.72Gibraltar—Iceland—Slovakia—Sweden0.75Bosnia and Herzegovina—Denmark0.78Finland—Greece—Latvia—Moldova—Montenegro—Poland0.60Ukraine—
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