IrelandProtection of Voice and Image Bill 2025 (Bill No. 11 of 2025), Offences for Misuse of a Name, Photograph, Voice or Likeness
Protection of Voice and Image Bill 2025 (No. 11 of 2025)
Introduced in the first chamber, dated , as of .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
As of .
Where it has got to
The text described here is Protection of Voice and Image Bill 2025, as initiated (No. 11 of 2025). That print is b1125d, published .
Locally, this stage is Dáil First Stage.
The stage above is recorded at www.oireachtas.ie.
The bill page dates the Dáil Second Stage , the day of First Stage, while its debates list records the Second Stage debate on . The page shows no later Dáil stage.
What it requires
- This is a bill, not law: it was introduced in Dáil Éireann on as a private member's bill and has not been enacted. Read the lines below as what would apply if it is enacted as initiated.
- Do not publish, distribute or otherwise make available to the public an individual's name, photograph, voice or likeness in any medium for advertising, fundraising or political purposes, or to influence an election or referendum, without the individual's prior consent (or that of a parent or guardian for a minor, or of the executor or heirs of a deceased individual), where you intend to cause harm or are reckless as to whether harm is caused (Section 2(1)(a)).
- Do not distribute, transmit or otherwise make available an algorithm, software, tool, service or device whose primary purpose or function is producing an individual's photograph, voice or likeness, without that consent and with that intent or recklessness (Section 2(1)(b)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Section 2(3): on summary conviction, a class A fine or imprisonment for up to 12 months, or both; on conviction on indictment, a fine or imprisonment for up to seven years, or both.
What this law does
The Protection of Voice and Image Bill 2025 (Bill No. 11 of 2025) is a private member's bill introduced in Dáil Éireann by Deputy Malcolm Byrne on . Section 2 would make it an offence to use, publish, perform, distribute, transmit or otherwise make available to the public an individual's name, photograph, voice or likeness in any medium for advertising, fundraising or political purposes, or to influence elections or referenda.
Section 2 would also make it an offence to distribute, transmit or otherwise make available an algorithm, software, tool or other technology, service or device whose primary purpose or function is the production of an individual's photograph, voice or likeness. Either act would be an offence only where it is done without the individual's prior consent, or the consent of a parent or guardian for a minor or of the executor or heirs of a deceased individual.
The offence also requires intent to cause harm to the other person, or recklessness as to whether harm is caused. A person convicted on indictment would be liable to a fine or imprisonment for up to seven years, or both, and on summary conviction to a class A fine or imprisonment for up to 12 months, or both. Section 3 would require the Minister for Justice to review the operation of the Act within one year of its commencement.
The Act would come into operation on a day or days that the Minister for Justice appoints by order. The Oireachtas record shows the Dáil Second Stage debate on the bill, in private members' time, on . The Oireachtas record lists the Dáil Third Stage, the examination of the bill section by section, as a future stage.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates content with AI or processes voice recordings.