Bills
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Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Jan O'Sullivan
- Amends Housing Act 1988 to require housing authorities to recognise homeless families as a family unit when a child is involved in accommodation requests.
- Makes child welfare a paramount consideration in housing authority decisions on homeless family accommodation, including interim or urgent assistance.
- Requires housing authorities to regard protecting families and providing safe accommodation as key to supporting family functioning and child development.
Health (Waiting Lists) Bill 2024
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current David Cullinane
- Minister for Health must set specific performance targets for maximum waiting times across health and social care services, creating a legal basis for wait-time policies.
- National Treatment Purchase Fund Board expands from publishing hospital waiting lists only to collecting and publishing all health and social care waiting list data.
- Chief Executive of National Treatment Purchase Fund Board becomes accountable to the Minister for Health and to Oireachtas committees for managing the organisation.
Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Colm Burke
- Amends Health Act 2007 to establish regulatory framework for professional home care providers serving adults aged 18+, including standards on training, contracts, complaints and abuse prevention.
- Extends HIQA's functions to set national standards for professional home care based on HSE 2008 guidelines, covering safety, medication handling, money management and care planning.
- Requires Social Services Inspectorate to establish registry of professional home carers and gives Minister power to make regulations applying to professional home care undertakings.
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Mairéad Farrell
- Pension information for retired Taoisigh, Ministers and Presidents becomes subject to Freedom of Information requests.
- New public bodies automatically covered by FOI Act immediately upon designation, closing six-month gap in coverage.
- Minister must annually review partially-excluded bodies for transparency consistency; Commissioner can refer deliberate non-compliance to Standards Commission.
Flood Insurance Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current John Brady
- Prevents insurance companies from discriminating against homeowners and businesses in flood-designated areas by refusing or overpricing coverage despite completed flood relief schemes.
- Empowers Financial Services Ombudsman to direct insurers to offer policies at deemed fair rates, and Central Bank to assess compliance and issue enforcement orders.
- Allows Central Bank to fine non-compliant insurers and prevents appeals to tribunals or courts on Central Bank assessments and enforcement decisions.
Family Law (Divorce) (Amendment) Bill 2024
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Patrick Costello
- Reduces minimum waiting period before divorce proceedings can begin from two years to six months.
- Amends Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 to allow faster access to divorce courts for citizens.
- Shortens the overall timeframe for initiating divorce proceedings, enabling people to move on sooner.
Emergency Price Controls Bill 2024
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Bríd Smith
- Amends Consumer Protection Act 2007 to declare energy supply emergency and set maximum prices: petrol/diesel €1.75/litre, electricity 25c/kWh, natural gas 8c/kWh, heating oil €1/litre.
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment must review price controls within 12 months of the Act commencing.
- Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications must report on nationalising the energy system within 3 months of commencement.
Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Protection of Financially Vulnerable Customers) Bill 2023
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Jennifer Whitmore
- Adds legal definition of 'vulnerable customers' to primary legislation, expanded to include those receiving social welfare income supports, replacing existing statutory instrument definition.
- Requires Commission for Regulation of Utilities to consider financial vulnerability and energy poverty risk in its duties and policy decisions affecting customers.
- Empowers Minister to make regulations implementing the updated vulnerable customer definition immediately upon the Act's commencement.
Electoral (Home Addresses of Candidates) Bill 2024
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Jennifer Whitmore
- Removes requirement for candidates' home addresses to appear on nomination papers, ballot papers, and postal ballots for all elections.
- Amends seven electoral laws governing Dáil, Seanad, local councils, European Parliament, and Presidential elections to exclude address publication.
- Aims to protect candidates' and families' privacy and safety, addressing increased harassment and deterring participation from vulnerable communities.
Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020
2 May 2025 Report Stage Current Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
- Removes the exemption allowing schools to reserve up to 25% of places for children/grandchildren of former students.
- Keeps sibling preference intact; only eliminates parent and grandparent connection as admission criterion.
- Amends Part X of Education Act 1998 by deleting the provision enabling schools to prioritize applicants with parent/grandparent alumni ties.
Education (Admission to Schools) (Co-Education) Bill 2022
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Ged Nash
- Removes gender discrimination exemption for single-sex primary schools 10 years after Bill passes; schools must then admit students regardless of gender.
- Removes gender discrimination exemption for single-sex post-primary schools 15 years after Bill passes; applies to recognised schools only.
- Disapplies exemptions in Equal Status Act 2000 and Education Act 1998 that currently allow single-sex schools to refuse opposite-gender admissions.
Dublin Bay Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Ivana Bacik
- Creates Dublin Bay Authority as special committee of Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly with members from four councils plus appointed experts.
- Authority proposes environmental policies, monitors pollution compliance, coordinates sustainable development, and makes regional spatial strategy for Dublin Bay area.
- Extends bathing water quality monitoring season for Dublin Bay year-round; amends 2008 Regulations to apply continuous monitoring instead of June-September only.
Derelict Sites (Amendment) Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Seán Sherlock
- Creates a legal charge on derelict land for expenses incurred by local authorities taking action to prevent or remedy dereliction.
- Makes local authorities secured creditors, improving recovery prospects when insolvent property owners' assets are liquidated and distributed.
- Applies to expenses incurred after the Bill passes; amends the Derelict Sites Act 1990 by adding new subsection (5A) to section 11.
Defective Dwellings Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Francis Noel Duffy
- Creates statutory duty on builders, developers and sub-contractors to ensure dwellings meet Building Regulations and quality standards; applies to new construction and works on existing homes.
- Establishes two-year limitation period from when defect discovered, and ultimate fifteen-year period from completion; owners cannot be barred by earlier time limits.
- Allows homeowners and management companies to sue for defects without relying on contract; duty cannot be contracted out of and applies to first and subsequent purchasers.
Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2022
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Patrick Costello
- Creates Early Identification Assessment system for relevant authorities to identify suspected trafficking victims and appoint guardians ad litem for child victims.
- Establishes formal victim identification process: applications to Minister, formal identification decision, and appeals process for relevant authorities.
- Provides immunity from prosecution for suspected victims compelled to commit crimes while trafficked, and specifies supports and assistance for identified victims.
Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Aengus Ó Snodaigh
- Establishes Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Teoranta company to manage state-owned lands and properties in Moore Street Battlefield Area and develop cultural/commemorative activities reflecting 1916 Rising.
- Minister must issue Preservation Order protecting historic terrace at 10-25 Moore Street, GPO, and surrounding streets/lanes, designating area as National Monument of extreme importance to State.
- Transforms Moore Street Market into permanent market with stall operating licences issued by Minister after consultation, maintaining conditions no less favourable than present.
Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Ged Nash
- Amends Pensions Act 1990 to require pension trustees to give members annual statements showing charges in cash, as percentage of contributions, and as percentage of assets held.
- Requires trustees to show how charges reduce expected pension benefits compared to no-charge scenario, plus comparisons with alternative charge levels over scheme lifetime.
- Pensions Authority must report annually on monitoring this requirement; Pensions Council must report every five years on reasonableness, transparency and competitiveness of charges.
Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Matt Shanahan
- Each Minister must annually report to Parliament on capital spending by asset from four years prior, covering projects over €500,000.
- Report details where departmental capital funds were spent, which assets purchased, and locations—closing current gap in capital spending transparency.
- Ministers may delay reporting commercially sensitive information; standardised reporting replaces current inconsistent departmental practices.
Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Ivana Bacik
- Employees get paid leave following miscarriage or to access reproductive healthcare services.
- Amends 1997 Working Time Act; adds unfair dismissal protection for taking this leave.
- Prevents employers firing or penalizing staff for miscarriage-related absence or medical appointments.
Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current John Cummins
- Creates new crime of 'spiking': giving someone drugs without consent to overpower, sedate, or enable sexual assault, harm, theft, or other offences.
- Applies when perpetrator knows victim hasn't consented or is reckless about consent; covers injection, oral administration, or causing ingestion of substances.
- Amends Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act; specific spiking offence allows targeted prosecution distinct from existing assault or poisoning charges.
Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Patrick Costello
- Amends Broadcasting Act 2009 to require RTÉ's Director General to make the national video and photo archives accessible to ordinary citizens.
- Places legal responsibility on RTÉ to ensure archives and finding aids are open and transparent to the public.
- Bill aims to improve public access to Ireland's largest video archive and one of the country's largest photo archives currently unavailable to citizens.
Neighbour Disputes (Vegetation) Bill 2017
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Aengus Ó Snodaigh
- Creates a process for resolving neighbour disputes over vegetation causing nuisance, including blocked sunlight, via mediation and formal adjudication.
- Local authorities appoint adjudication officers to hear cases and make binding decisions; decisions can be appealed and enforced.
- Aims to provide structured alternative to court proceedings for vegetation-related neighbour conflicts.
Ban Private Jet Aircraft from Irish Airspace Bill 2023
2 May 2025 Second Stage Current Paul Murphy
- Amends Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993 to ban private jets from Irish airspace, with exceptions for medical evacuation, national security, state aircraft, and flight training.
- Creates criminal penalties: summary conviction up to €fine or 12 months imprisonment; indictment up to €150,000 fine or 5 years imprisonment.
- Does not restrict scheduled commercial flights, foreign sovereign state aircraft, or private military jets.
National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) (Amendment) Bill 2022
2 May 2025 Committee Stage Current Réada Cronin
- Creates a Register of General Consents allowing individuals to give one-time consent to vetting disclosure, valid for 3 years, eliminating repeated vetting applications across multiple organisations.
- Streamlines vetting process: organisations can access registered individuals' information without requiring fresh consent or information each time, reducing administrative burden on volunteers and employees.
- Bureau must review register regularly, remove individuals who develop criminal records or specified information, and people must notify Bureau of relevant changes in circumstances.