Need for legislation on services creating sexualised images for adults, TD saysBy Cillian Sherlock, Press AssociationThere is a need for legislation to tackle services that generate sexualised images of adults, a Sinn Féin TD has said. Senior Government figures have insisted that there is sufficient legislation to investigate and prosecute child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexualised images of adults that have been generated through artificial intelligence tools online. Sinn Féin TD Ruairí Ó Murchú said this means there is a need for legislation to account for services that provide the generation of sexualised images of adults – even when there is no complainant. “The production, the circulation, the generation of child sexual abuse material – whether that’s through an AI-generated mechanism or not – that is prohibited. “When it gets to intimate image abuse, we need a complainant, and we also need for that material to have been circulated.

Source: Irish Independent January 29, 2026 21:31 UTC