Bills
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Health (Amendment) Bill 2025
1 Oct 2025 Committee Stage Current
- Replaces annual Service Plan with Performance Delivery Plan; extends submission deadline from 21 to 28 days after budget allocation is determined.
- Requires HSE Board and CEO to maintain systems ensuring highest standards of budgetary management; CEO must report budget overruns to Board and Ministers with corrective action proposals for approval.
- Ministers for Health and Children, Disability, Equality issue separate strategic direction statements and annual priority statements to guide HSE Corporate and Performance Delivery Plans; both Ministers must approve plans jointly.
Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019
1 Oct 2025 Committee Stage Current
- Schools must prepare, publish and implement a student and parent charter following national guidelines set by the Minister for Education and Skills.
- The Minister will establish detailed charter guidelines covering consultation procedures, school information disclosure, grievance handling, and financial transparency to parents and students.
- The Minister can issue written directions to schools failing to comply with charter requirements, with 14-day notice, representation rights, and public publication of all directions issued.
Criminal Justice (Trespass on Land) Bill 2025
25 Sep 2025 First Stage Current Carol Nolan
- Expands trespass offense from buildings only to all land types, making unauthorized entry onto any land a criminal offense if it causes or risks causing fear.
- Addresses rural concerns by criminalizing activities like quad biking, scrambling, and lurching on agricultural and community land without permission.
- Amends Section 13 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 to broaden scope of existing law to protect all farm and agricultural land.
Criminal Justice (Promotion of Restorative Justice) (Amendment) Bill 2023
8 Sep 2025 Second Stage Current Pa Daly
- Amends Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017 to allow courts to refer cases to restorative justice schemes before conviction and dismiss charges if appropriate.
- Permits An Garda Síochána and Director of Public Prosecutions to refer cases to restorative justice schemes before court and review prosecution decisions if appropriate.
- Encourages court referrals to restorative justice between conviction and sentencing; prohibits participation in restorative justice from being used as evidence of guilt.
Protection of Retail Workers Bill 2025
14 Aug 2025 Second Stage Current Mary Fitzpatrick
- Creates new criminal offences for assaulting or threatening retail workers while they work.
- Amends the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 to add these specific protections.
- Currently at Second Stage; practical penalties and exact scope of 'retail worker' undefined.
Statute Law Revision Bill 2024
28 Jul 2025 Enacted
- Revokes 3,367 obsolete secondary instruments made between 1821 and 1861, and earlier instruments not repealed in 2015, retaining only 5 listed in Schedule 1.
- Assigns official citations to 5 retained instruments for easier legal reference and allows ministers to amend or revoke them subject to 21-day parliamentary annulment.
- Enables courts to accept prima facie evidence of pre-1861 instruments via published copies from Dublin Gazette or certified copies from designated libraries like National Library of Ireland.
Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025
28 Jul 2025 Enacted
- Allows housing developments with less than 2 years of permission remaining to get 3-year extensions if applied for within 6 months; work must start within 18 months or extension lapses.
- Extends judicial review pause for planning permissions from the 2024 Act to older 2000 Act permissions, allowing retrospective suspension claims if development didn't substantially commence during review.
- Permits development plan and local area plan variations started under the 2000 Act to continue under that Act despite its repeal, ensuring smooth transition during phased commencement of 2024 Act.
Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025
25 Jul 2025 Enacted
- Expands bereaved partner pensions to include surviving qualified cohabitants (after 2+ years together with children or 5+ years without), implementing Supreme Court ruling that prior exclusion was unconstitutional.
- Renames widow/widower/civil partner pension schemes to 'bereaved partner' pensions across contributory, non-contributory, and parent grant programs; applies definitions consistently.
- Allows backdating of payments to 22 January 2024 (Supreme Court decision date) for cohabitant claims; protects existing entitlements of divorced/separated persons under saver clauses.
Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024
18 Jul 2025 Enacted
- Provides free health services to survivors of residential institutional abuse matching supports given to Magdalen Laundries survivors, plus €3,000 payment for those living abroad.
- Enables Minister to make education support payments to help survivors engage in education, with criteria to be determined and published.
- Dissolves the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (Caranua), transferring its functions and assets to the Minister for Education.
Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2025
18 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Jennifer Whitmore
- Adds sprat fish to the Fifth Schedule of the Wildlife Act 1976, making it a protected species and prohibiting targeted fishing except as accidental bycatch.
- Imposes a moratorium on commercial sprat fishing until sufficient scientific data exists on population, habitat, and ecological role in marine ecosystems.
- Requires development of a Just Transition plan to support inshore fishers affected by the moratorium, including retraining, diversification, and financial assistance.
Occupying Power (Securities and Handling of Settlement Goods) Bill 2025
18 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Duncan Smith
- Central Bank must refuse to approve prospectus for securities issued by occupying powers and revoke any prior approvals.
- Dismissal of employee for refusing to handle goods produced in occupied settlements is deemed unfair under unfair dismissal law.
- Bill applies to territories designated as occupied by International Court of Justice or International Criminal Court under Geneva Convention.
Taxes Consolidation (Development of Regional Film Industry) (Amendment) Bill 2025
18 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Aengus Ó Snodaigh
- Amends section 481 of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to require Minister for Culture to consider film industry development in low-capacity regions when issuing cultural certificates for film tax relief.
- Empowers Minister to identify and prescribe low-audiovisual-capacity regions by regulation after consulting enterprise minister, Screen Ireland, sector stakeholders, local authorities and communities.
- Allows Minister to include regional development measures in industry development test for section 481 film tax relief to promote production outside Dublin-Wicklow hub.
Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation (Transfer of Functions) Bill 2024
17 Jul 2025 Second Stage Defeated Duncan Smith
- Transfers aircraft noise regulation authority for Dublin Airport from Fingal County Council to the Environmental Protection Agency.
- EPA becomes the legally designated competent authority under EU Aircraft Noise Regulation; all existing FCC noise-related functions transfer to EPA.
- Repeals provisions making FCC chief executive the competent authority; addresses concerns that true functional independence was not achieved.
Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025
17 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current James Geoghegan
- Replaces 1845 and 1919 Acts with modern compulsory land acquisition rules. Sets compensation assessment process, vesting order procedures, and time limits for claims.
- Transfers compensation disputes to Valuation Tribunal for expert determination. Owners can request advance payments of at least 90% before final compensation agreed.
- Allows acquiring authorities to withdraw notices within six weeks with compensation for losses. Covers severance, injurious affection, and equivalent reinstatement in compensation principles.
Road Traffic and Roads (Blood Bikes Exemption) (Amendment) Bill 2025
16 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Aengus Ó Snodaigh
- Exempts blood bike vehicles from paying road tolls, matching current exemptions for ambulances, fire brigade, gardaí, and Defence Forces.
- Grants blood bikes same traffic regulation exemptions as ambulances, including bus lane access restrictions, when performing healthcare delivery duties.
- Applies exemptions to unpaid volunteer courier services transporting blood, medical samples, and clinical products to hospitals and healthcare facilities.
Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023
11 Jul 2025 Second Stage Defeated Ivana Bacik
- Bars Attorney General from claiming legal privilege over advice cited to Oireachtas when explaining Government positions on Bills or resolutions.
- Requires Attorney General to prioritize public interest when handling State litigation: settle legitimate claims promptly, avoid technical defences, minimize costs, and apologize for wrongful conduct.
- Makes Attorney General subject to conduct codes under Standards in Public Office Act 2001; permits delegation of functions with recusal disclosure to Taoiseach and ethics commission.
Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2025
10 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Mark Ward
- Adds new verdict option to coroner inquests: 'Iatrogenic Suicide' where medical treatment or prescribed medication was the primary cause of death by suicide.
- Distinguishes Iatrogenic Suicide from ordinary suicide verdicts under the Coroners Act 1962 to provide legal recognition of this specific circumstance.
- Includes safeguard preventing Iatrogenic Suicide verdicts from assigning civil or criminal liability, as per existing Act provisions.
Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025
10 Jul 2025 Committee Stage Current Nicole Ryan
- Provides paid leave for employees after pregnancy loss and amends working time laws to protect this entitlement.
- Extends unfair dismissal protections to employees dismissed due to pregnancy loss or related circumstances.
- Creates opt-in register recording pregnancy loss, accessible only to registrants—not public searchable.
Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025
9 Jul 2025 Enacted
- Revises Local Property Tax calculation: widens valuation bands by 20%, lowers basic rate from 0.1029% to 0.0906%, introduces tiered rates up to 0.3% for properties over €2.1 million.
- Allows local authorities to increase Local Property Tax by up to 25% and raises income thresholds for deferral eligibility (single person €18,000 to €25,000; couples €30,000 to €40,000).
- Expands Local Property Tax exemption for defective concrete block properties to Clare, Limerick and Sligo; extends 9% VAT rate on gas and electricity to 31 October 2025.
Health (Availability of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2025
4 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Marie Sherlock
- Creates statutory duty for HSE to ensure GP services accessible fairly across State based on local health needs assessment, considering population distribution and social determinants.
- Requires HSE to report progress toward this objective in corporate plans and propose strategies to achieve it, using available resources without automatic budget increase.
- Addresses current gap where HSE funds but cannot direct GP placement, establishing direct link between needs assessment and service provision decisions.
Organisation of Working Time (Leave for Health Screening Purposes) Bill 2025
4 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Duncan Smith
- Creates statutory right to paid leave for employees to attend HSE cervical, breast, colon cancer screening, or other screening recommended by their doctor.
- Excludes health screening leave from weekly working hours cap calculations and nightly hours reference periods under Organisation of Working Time Act 1997.
- Dismissal for taking health screening leave is presumed unfair; protects continuity of service for redundancy; disputes handled by Workplace Relations Commission.
Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024
3 Jul 2025 Committee Stage Current David P.B. Norris
- Makes breaching a domestic violence order an indictable offence (more serious crime) under the Domestic Violence Act 2018.
- Adds this offence to the Bail Act 1997 schedule, allowing courts to refuse bail for those accused of breaching orders.
- Bill currently at Committee Stage; practical effect depends on final amendments and passage through remaining legislative stages.
Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024
3 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Gerard P. Craughwell
- HSE must establish specialized scoliosis treatment service for inpatient and outpatient care of children and adults in Ireland.
- Minister for Health given powers and duties to oversee the service establishment and related matters.
- Bill is at Second Stage; specific service details, funding, and timeline not yet evident from long title.
Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025
2 Jul 2025 Second Stage Current Paul Murphy
- Bans teeth-clipping, tail-docking, and castration of pigs except for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
- Restricts tusk reduction in boars to last-resort situations where necessary to prevent injury or safety risks.
- Prohibits sow stalls and farrowing crates smaller than 5 square metres that prevent sows turning around.