EnactedStage in the legislative process — click for what it means32/2020Official bill number / year
Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020
- Sponsor
- Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Introduced
- 23 Sep 2020
- Last updated
- 5 Oct 2020
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Forestry Appeals Committee can now sit in divisions and appoint deputy chairpersons to increase capacity and speed up processing of forestry licensing appeals.
- Minister gains powers to set appeal fees by regulation, establish procedures for oral hearings, and issue policy directives to prioritize certain appeal classes.
- Forestry license application documents must be published on Department website for public access; High Court appeals on points of law are eliminated.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage26th Seanad23 Sep 2020
- Second Stage26th Seanad23 Sep 2020
- Committee Stage26th Seanad23 Sep 2020
- Report Stage26th Seanad25 Sep 2020
- Fifth Stage26th Seanad25 Sep 2020
- Second Stage33rd Dáil29 Sep 2020
- Fifth Stage33rd Dáil30 Sep 2020
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil30 Sep 2020
- Report Stage33rd Dáil30 Sep 2020
- Enacted2 Oct 2020
Debates
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