Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025

Plain-English summary AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

• Creates a process to disregard historic convictions for consensual sexual activity between men, treating them as spent or wiped from records.
• Amends the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014; specific changes to that Act are not detailed in the long title provided.
• Bill is currently at Second Stage; full scope and application procedures for the disregard process are not specified in the long title.

Stage timeline

1. First Stage 34th Dáil

   1 Jul 2025
2. Second Stage 34th Dáil

   1 Jul 2025