Bill entitled an Act to provide for public rights of access to certain broadcast events of major importance to society and to give effect to Article 3a of Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the co-ordination of certain provisions to be laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities, as inserted by Article 4 of Directive 97/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 1997; and to amend the Competition Act, 1991 to provide for diversity of ownership in broadcasting and other media, and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to render it unlawful for any unauthorised person to sell, or offer for sale tickets for major sporting, musical or theatrical events for a price in excess of the officially designated price
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the issue of court orders relating to attachment of earnings so as to compel employers, or in the case of social welfare recipients, the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, to make specific deductions from employee earnings or social welfare payments, as the case may be, in order to secure payment within a reasonable period of any sums due and owing under a relevant antecedent order or financial penalty, to provide for the imposition of Community Service Orders on such defaulters; where appropriate, to make money payment service orders; to allow for an extension of time for repayment of such fines and debts and for their payment by instalments; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to co-ordinate the activities of authorities, agencies, and bodies connected with the protection, conservation, management, water management and control of pollution of the Shannon River Council, to define its functions, and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid
Bill entitled an Act to provide for hours of trading for licensed premises and registered clubs and to amend for those and other purposes the Licensing Acts, 1833 to 1997, and the Registration of Clubs Acts, 1904 to 1995, and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the promotion, co-ordination and development of sport in Ireland and for these purposes to establish a body to be known as the National Sports Council of Ireland, to define its functions and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid
Bill entitled an Act to require the notification of information to the Garda Síochána by persons who have committed certain sexual offences against children and to make similar provision with respect to the commission of certain sexual acts involving children outside the Republic of Ireland and for connected purposes
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the election, on a franchise, by institutions of higher education in the State of six members of Seanad Éireann in substitution for those members previously required to be elected by the universities mentioned in subsection 1 of Article 18.4 of the Constitution, to define the franchise on which such members are to be elected, and to provide for connected matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Protection of Employment Act, 1977, and the European Communities (Safeguarding of Employees' Rights on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations, 1980, and to give full effect to Council Directive 75/129/EEC of 17 February 1975, Council Directive 92/56/EEC of 24 June 1992, and Council Directive 77/187/EEC of 14 February 1977, and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the election, on a franchise, by institutions of higher education in the state of six members of Seanad Éireann in substitution for those members previously required to be elected by the universities mentioned in subsection 1 of Article 18.4 of the constitution, to define the franchise on which such members are to be elected, and to provide for connected matters
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the registration, control and supervision of persons engaged as door supervisors in or about premises licensed under the Public Dance Halls Act, 1935, and the Licensing Acts, 1833 to 1995, and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to create a new drug offence, to amend the law relating to proceedings in criminal matters, to amend the law relating to enforcement of penalties against drug traffickers, to establish rules relating to the sentencing of persons who have entered guilty pleas, to provide for evidence by certificate in relation to exhibits, to amend the law relating to the certification, for extradition purposes, of certain offences under the law of Northern Ireland and Scotland, and to provide for other related matters
Bill entitled an Act to establish a service to manage the courts and provide services to and for the judges, and to provide other services relating to courts administration, to transfer certain property to the service, to make provision for the staffing of the service, and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for polling day in the extroardinary Presidential Election occasioned by the resignation of President Mary Robinson, and the Referendum on the Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill, 1997; to provide for polling day in certain elections and for the role of the Minister for the Environment and Local Government in electoral campaigns; and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Road Transport Act, 1933, the Road Transport Act, 1978, the Road Traffic Act, 1961, and otherwise to amend the law in relation to matters pertaining to road transport
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the legilative enactment of measure to provide for the implementation of the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution and to make statutory provision for the regulation of the terms of bail of persons charged with serious criminal offences and to provide for the duties and responsibilities of bailspersons and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to protect access by the public to the televising in the State of an event, or events of kind, deemed by the Minister to be of significance to the heritage and culture of the State, or otherwise deemed to be of national importance, the televising of which should in the opinion of the Minister, be available free to the general public and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regulation of private educational institutions and for the protection of students attending such institutions, for those purposes to enable the Minister for Education to issue licences to private educational institutions and to require them to enter into and maintain bonds, to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the private students' protection fund and for the payment of contributions by private educational institutions towards the resources for that fund and to provide for other matters connected with the foregoing.
Bill entitled an Act to co-ordinate the activities of authorities, agencies, and bodies connected with the protection, conservation, management, water management and control of pollution of the Shannon River Catchment, to establish, a body to be known as the Shannon River Council, to define its functions, and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a new management structure to enhance the management, effectiveness and transparency of operations of Departments of State and certain other offices of the public service and increase the accountability of civil servants while preserving the discretion of the Government in relation to their responsibility to Dáil Éireann, to provide for the administration of Departments of State and the offices aforesaid, the appointment of special advisors, the assignment of cross-departmental functions and the corporate status of certain public offices and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to amend, consolidate and extend the law relating to the conservation of the interior and exterior fabric of buildings of special architectural or historic interest and the creation of conservation areas and in so doing to amend the law relating to planning and development and the law relating to national heritage.
Bill entitled an Act to establish the offence of aggravated robbery and to make provision for the regulation and prohibition of certain items and to provide for the punishment of possession and use of certain items in specified circumstances and to provide for related matters.
Bill entitled an Act to enable members of the public to access, subject to certain limitations, information relating to the environment; to set out the duty of certain public bodies in this regard; to provide for the establishment of an appeals officer; and to provide for related matters.
Bill entitled an Act to amend tha law relating to the management and regulation of prisons and places of detention and places of custody and the law relating to temporary release and to provide for related matters.
Bill entitled an Act to promote equality and to prohibit types of discrimination, harassment and related behaviour in connection with the provision of services, property and other opportunities to which the public generally has access, to provide for remedying certain discrimination and other unlawful activities, to provide for the administration by the Equality Authority of various matters pertaining to this Act and the Employment Equality Act, 1997, and to amend certain Acts in relation thereto.
Bill entitled an Act to exemp marriages solemnised between the 1st day of August, 1996 and the 31st day of March, 1997 from the provisions of section 32 of the Family Law Act, 1995, to the intent that such marriages would not be void by reason on non-compliance with section 32 of the said Act.
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the abolition of ground rents and to provide compensation to those whose interests are affected as aforesaid, to provide for the apportionment of certain rents, to make provision in relation to the waiver and relaxation of certain restrictive covenants in leases, to provide for the arbitration of disputes arising out of the titles of persons whose interests are hereby enlarged to the fee simple, to provide for the registration of titles enlarged to the fee simple, to amend in other respects the law of landlord and tenant, and to provide for other matters connected to the matters aforesaid
Bill entitled an Act to make provision in the interests of the common good for the education of every child in the State, including any child with a disability or special educational needs, and to provide generally for primary, post-primary, adult and continuing education and vocational education and training; to ensure that the educational system is accountable to students, their parents and the State for the education provided, respects the diversity of values, beliefs and traditions in Irish society and is conducted in a spirit of partnership between schools, patrons, students, parents, staff and the State; to make provision for the establishment and maintenance of education boards, to provide for the recognition and funding of schools and their management through boards of management, to provide for an inspectorate of schools, and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to make further provision for the care, protection and control of children and, in particular, to replace the provisions of the Children Act, 1908, and other enactments relating to juvenile offenders, to amend and extend the Child Care Act, 1991, and to provide for related matters
Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the possession, making or trading in photographs or images or literature relating to children of a pornographic nature and in so doing to amend the Criminal Law
Bill entitled an Act to provide protection for persons employed in shops with regard to hours of work on Sunday and to amend the Shops (Conditions of Employment) Acts 1938 to 1942
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for confidentiality in respect of the proceedings at meetings of the Government and to provide for the circumstances in which such proceedings may lawfully be disclosed and to provide for related matters