Fifth Stage Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means Current The bill’s status — click for what it means 27th Seanad The House currently handling the bill 5/2025 Official bill number / year
Insurance (Disregard of Certain Medical History and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025
- Sponsor
- Catherine Ardagh · Fianna Fáil
- Introduced
- 18 Feb 2025
- Last updated
- 9 Jul 2026
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Prohibits financial service providers from discriminating against cancer survivors in accessing insurance, assurance, and mortgage products once they reach five years post-treatment.
- Removes requirement for cancer survivors meeting five-year post-treatment criterion to disclose past diagnosis when applying for financial services.
- Establishes offences and penalties, including fines and imprisonment, for financial service providers who breach these discrimination prohibitions.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 34th Dáil18 Feb 2025
- Second Stage 34th Dáil18 Feb 2025
- Committee Stage 34th Dáil19 Nov 2025
- Report Stage 34th Dáil27 May 2026
- Fifth Stage 34th Dáil17 Jun 2026
- Second Stage 27th Seanad24 Jun 2026
- Committee Stage 27th Seanad24 Jun 2026
- Report Stage 27th Seanad8 Jul 2026
- Fifth Stage 27th Seanad8 Jul 2026
Debates
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