EnactedStage in the legislative process — click for what it means3/2020Official bill number / year
Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020
- Sponsor
- Minister for Health
- Introduced
- 18 Mar 2020
- Last updated
- 30 Mar 2020
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends Health Act 1947 to allow Minister to make regulations restricting travel, prohibiting events, and closing premises to slow Covid-19 spread.
- Enables medical officers of health to order detention and isolation of persons suspected as infection sources who refuse voluntary self-isolation.
- Extends illness benefit to self-employed and diagnosed/self-isolating Covid-19 persons; reduces jobseeker waiting periods from three days to zero during emergency.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil18 Mar 2020
- Second Stage33rd Dáil19 Mar 2020
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil19 Mar 2020
- Report Stage33rd Dáil19 Mar 2020
- Fifth Stage33rd Dáil19 Mar 2020
- Second Stage25th Seanad20 Mar 2020
- Committee Stage25th Seanad20 Mar 2020
- Report Stage25th Seanad20 Mar 2020
- Fifth Stage25th Seanad20 Mar 2020
- Enacted20 Mar 2020
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