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Regulation of Drones Bill 2025
- Sponsor
- Roderic O'Gorman · Green Party
- Introduced
- 15 Oct 2025
- Last updated
- 16 Oct 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Requires local authorities to create drone management objectives in development plans, prioritizing public interest operations and ensuring consistency with national planning policies.
- Allows individuals, local authorities, and the EPA to complain to District Court about noise from private or commercial drones, removing blanket aircraft exemption.
- Adds drone regulation as a mandatory consideration when issuing National Planning Statements, ensuring uniform national conditions for private and commercial drone use.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage34th Dáil15 Oct 2025
- Second Stage34th Dáil15 Oct 2025
Debates
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