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Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025
- Sponsor
- Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Introduced
- 1 Dec 2025
- Last updated
- 11 Jun 2026
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends Arbitration Act 2010 to make investment-protection awards under CETA, EU-Chile agreement, and prescribed future agreements enforceable in Irish courts by High Court order.
- Awards cannot be enforced if doing so would breach Ireland's constitutional order or EU legal autonomy; appeal lies to Supreme Court only by its acceptance.
- Minister for Foreign Affairs may add other investment-protection agreements by statutory order subject to 21-day parliamentary annulment procedure.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 34th Dáil1 Dec 2025
- Second Stage 34th Dáil1 Dec 2025
- Committee Stage 34th Dáil9 Dec 2025
- Report Stage 34th Dáil15 Apr 2026
- Fifth Stage 34th Dáil15 Apr 2026
- Second Stage 27th Seanad6 May 2026
- Committee Stage 27th Seanad20 May 2026
- Report Stage 27th Seanad28 May 2026
- Fifth Stage 27th Seanad9 Jun 2026
Debates
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