Niamh Smyth TD is Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment with special responsibility for Trade Promotion, AI and Digital Transformation.
It is the first occasion there has been a Minister designated with the portfolio concerning AI. There is a large body of work now being undertaken by the Minister to provide targeted support, training and advice to Irish enterprises to drive the adoption and deployment of AI systems across all business and industry sectors.
Minister Smyth has been a member of parliament since 2016, having first been elected to local government in 2009. Minister Smyth has been elected to parliament on three successive occasions and was made a Minister in the Department of Enterprise in February of this year.
She was previously the Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht. During her tenure she chaired the high-profile investigation into payments at the Irish public s