Bill entitled an Act to promote the financial stability of Ireland by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system; reduce systemic risk; end "too big to fail"; improve capital adequacy and to protect the State from non-transparent safety net subsidies and open-ended bailouts of monetary and financial institutions
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a Mortgage Resolution Office; to provide for a non-judicial Mortgage Resolution Order concerning mortgages over family homes; to provide for an independent appeals process against decisions of the Mortgage Resolution Office; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to enhance the level of information which is made available to the consumers of foodstuffs and for that purpose to introduce a series of new requirements for food labelling and signage, to amend the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend section 29 of the Child Care Act 1991, as amended by the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2007 and section 46(2) of the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2011 to deal with the application of the in camera rule under the Child Care Act 1991 and to amend section 40 of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 to deal with the application of the in camera rule in certain family law proceedings
Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the punishment imposed on a person who engages in unlicenced money-lending shall include a prohibition on a person convicted of the offence of unlicenced money-lending from subjecting the victim(s) of the offence of unlicenced money-lending to harassment for such defined period as the Court may specify and in circumstances where, on the evidence given, the Court is not satisfied that a person should be so convicted, the Court may nevertheless make an order prohibiting a person from communicating with any person for such defined period as the Court may specify and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to provide that certain persons shall be under a disability for the purpose of bringing actions relating to symphysiotomy and pubiotomy performed on them without medical justification, for that purpose to amend the statute of limitations, 1957, and to provide for matters connected therewith
, in the public interest, to amend the Data Protection Act 1988, as amended by the Data Protection Act 2003, to provide for the retention of newborn screening cards, and certain related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend the law as it relates to the purchasing, selling, trading, consignment selling, or otherwise transferring for value, more than three times per year, second-hand property that is a precious or scrap metal
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 and expand the functions of the Authority in order to achieve the highest standard of food health and safety for consumers through enhancing the traceability and monitoring of food produce origins; enforce stricter labelling criteria for products labelled as produce of Ireland as well as products marketed and distributed within the State
Bill entitled an Act to ensure scrutiny of EU Directives prior to the signature by the relevant Ministers and to ensure Statutory Instruments which are of public interest are debated by the Seanad prior to enactment
Bill entitled an Act to criminalise the purchase of sexual services and for that purpose to make it an offence to engage or attempt to engage a person for the purposes of obtaining sexual services in return for payment and to make it an offence for a person to obtain sexual services by means of prostitution; to provide for an administrative sanction for first-time offenders and to provide for increased penalties and for that purpose to amend the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to provide for free and fair elections to Seanad Éireann wherein the franchise is extended to all people who are over eighteen and legally resident in Ireland and to all people who are Irish citizens; to alter the method that graduates of an Irish Institute of Higher Education use to elect members of the Seanad; to provide for the conduct of elections to Seanad Éireann and to amend the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Acts 1937 to 2006, the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Acts 1947 to 2006; to amend the Electoral Acts 1992 to 2012; to amend the Oireachtas (Miscellaneous Provisions) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act 1996 and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the reduction of pensions payable by credit institutions covered by the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 to certain employees of those credit institutions
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the amendment of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 and establishment of a body to be known as Bord Lá na Poblachta and for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2011 and thereby extend the general definition of discrimination to include discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, as well as to extend general protection against discrimination on the basis of civil status, gender identity or sexual orientation in, and in connection with, employment, vocational training and membership of certain bodies
Bill entitled an Act to establish a cemeteries regulator, to provide for the licensing of cemetery authorities and to specify management stipulations for such authorities, to promote competition and to provide for related matters.
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the effects in civil law of persons who are missing, including arrangements for interim management of the missing person's property, and to provide for the civil status of the missing person where the circumstances of their absence leads to a presumption of death; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to promote greater transparency and consistency in judicial sentencing, whilst maintaining the independence of the judiciary, to establish a Judicial Sentencing Commission, to promote a clear, fair and consistent approach to judicial sentencing, to produce analysis and research on sentencing, and to promote public confidence in judicial sentencing
Bill entitled an Act to remove the obligation imposed on the grandparents of a child to first apply and obtain leave before exercising the right to apply for access to a grandchild, to regularise the day-to-day care of children in order to facilitate the development of a relationship or a bond between a grandparent and their grandchildren and persons in loco parentis where appropriate, to amend the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to set a target for the year 2050 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; to establish the Department of the Taoiseach as the co-ordinating department under the Act; to confer powers on the Taoiseach to make regulations; to provide for carbon budgets; to establish an Office of Climate Change and Renewable Energy and a Climate Change Commission; to amend the Carbon Fund Act 2007; to put in place a framework and enabling provisions to meet European Union and international commitments on climate change; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the restructuring and disposal of certain mortgage arrears; for the retention, where practicable, of the principal private residence in instances of certain mortgage arrears; for the removal of significant negative equity debt in the case of eligible persons; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to provide for mandatory professional indemnity cover for certain medical practitioners; to confer additional functions on the Medical Council; and for that purpose to amend and extend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 to impose mandatory requirements on the board of management of recognised schools to adopt counter bullying and preventative measures which are to be implemented by the board of management and to direct the Minister for Education and Skills to introduce regulations based on existing guidelines and to ensure these regulations are reviewed
Bill entitled an Act to give powers to an Garda Síochána to deal with the use of motor propelled vehicles in areas designated public spaces by local authorities
Bill entitled an Act to provide an interim legislative arrangement, as required by the Council of Europe, for termination of pregnancy where as a matter of probability a real and substantial risk to the life of the pregnant woman exists; to make provision for the prevention of any curtailment, hindrance or preclusion of such treatment that may arise as a result of the pregnancy of the woman; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to protect non-national workers from exploitation by providing a due diligence defence for such workers and also to preclude employers from avoiding liability through reliance upon the illegality of a contract of employment and for that purpose to amend the Employment Permits Act 2003 and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the provision of data by television broadcasting service providers for the purpose of assisting in the recovery of television licence fees; and to provide for connected matters
Bill entitled an Act to require the Minister for Justice to prepare and publish a report on the costs and benefits of advancing the clocks by one hour to allow for brighter evenings and to bring Ireland into the Central European Time zone; to also allow the Minister for Justice to advance the clocks by one hour for a three year trial period and then permanently if required; and for connected purposes
Bill entitled an Act to protect the health of persons who may be affected by noise and shadow flicker from wind turbines; to give further effect to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters done at Aarhus, Denmark on 25 June 1998; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 to regulate the retail packaging and appearance of tobacco products in order to improve public health and to discourage the use of tobacco products and for related purposes
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the registration in the State's vital record registration system of resident citizens' deaths that occur outside the State
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the restriction and regulation of bonus payments made by credit institutions covered by the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 to employees of those credit institutions and to defer the payment of such bonus payments for a period of five years after the date upon which they have been earned in order to ensure that the bonus payments are justifiable and merited
Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the Minister for Education and Skills shall publish an annual education impact study on the effects his or her decision to reduce the annual resource allocation in schools will have on schools, such study to include details of the names of schools affected, the impact such changes will have on those schools, and to provide for a mechanism whereby the Principal of each affected school may appeal the decision to reduce his or her resource allocation, setting out the reasons for the appeal and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 to provide for the creation and publication of a register by each housing authority of dwellings which are the subject of rental accommodation agreements and to provide for the creation and publication by the Minister of an alphabetical list of rental accommodation providers together with the total sum paid to those providers by the various housing authorities over the previous 12 months
Bill entitled an Act to create and regulate a mortgage-credit loans and bonds system, for the purposes of the orderly operation of the market for mortgages, such that economic activity is encouraged and property is improved via a system of mortgage-credit loans and mortgage-credit bonds