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1,985 ingested bills from Ireland. Year filters use the introduced date shown on each card. Walk years back as far as this source still publishes.
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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 March 2023
Bill entitled an Act to regulate the sale of nitrous oxide gas by prohibiting its sale in a reusable cylinder or disposable cartridge to a person who has not attained the age of 18 years and for that purpose to amend the Child Care Act 1991 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 February 2023
Bill entitled an Act to make certain amendments to the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 and the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 to provide for abortion on request prior to foetal viability; to abolish the 3 day waiting period for abortion on request; to allow for abortion on grounds of fatal foetal abnormality that are likely to lead to the death of the foetus either before or within a year of birth; to allow for abortion where there is a risk to the life, or of serious harm to the health, of the pregnant woman; and to decriminalise the provision of abortion.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 to make specific provision for minimum sentences for certain assault offences; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend section 35A of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended) so as to protect tenants of multi-unit developments from large-scale evictions.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Broadcasting Act 2009 to provide for greater public access to the RTÉ archives.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 to include the definition of “vulnerable customers” in relation to the functions of the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities; and to allow the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications to make regulations to that effect.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 9 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Domestic Violence Act 2018 and, for that purpose, to provide protection in proceedings for the offence of coercive control against cross-examination in person by an accused person of a child witness or an adult witness who is the person in respect of whom the offence is alleged to have been committed and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 9 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 1 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to make further and better provision for equality between employed persons by providing for transparency in respect of matters relating to remuneration, and for that and other purposes to amend the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2021 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body, to be known in the Irish language as an Coimisiún um Ghlúnta sa Todhchaí or in the English language as the Commission for Future Generations for the purpose of reporting to the Government in relation to the establishment of an Office of Ombudsman for Future Generations and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend Planning and Development Regulations, 2001 (S.I. No. 600 of 2001) to provide for exemptions from planning permission for certain categories of public art murals where such work has artistic or cultural merit, has the permission of the owner of the building or structure on which it is displayed, is not a commercial advertisement and does not conflict with the Equal Status Acts.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a public inquiry into collusion between British State forces and other persons, between 1968 and 1998, to commit, assist, or prevent prosecution of, offences, including murder, in the island of Ireland.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 to increase workers protections under that Act by broadening the categories of workers included in that Act, further protecting workers who engage in industrial action, shielding workers under protected categories from unfair dismissals, and reforming the system of compensation afforded under that Act.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2022
Bill entitled an Act to require the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to establish a cross-departmental taskforce to examine the cost of producing renewable energy in Ireland; to provide for this taskforce to consult with stakeholders and deliver within six months policy recommendations to the Minister on ways to reduce the cost of producing renewable energy per megawatt-hour.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 December 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide comprehensive solidarity to Ukraine in the face of the unlawful war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation with the support of Belarus, to provide for criminal and civil liability in respect of the crime of aggression and related wrongs and for the recognition of qualifications of displaced persons, to make provision with extra-territorial effect in accordance with Article 29.8 of the Constitution and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 to provide for abortion on request prior to foetal viability; to abolish the 3 day waiting period for abortion on request; to allow for abortion on grounds of fatal foetal abnormality that are likely to lead to the death of the foetus either before or within a year of birth; to allow for abortion where there is a risk to the life, or of serious harm to the health, of the pregnant woman; and to decriminalise the provision of abortion.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 to enable a person who is at least 18 years of age to have possession, for the person’s personal use, of either or both cannabis and cannabis resin that in each case does not exceed a specified amount and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 20 October 2022
Bill entitled an Act to facilitate the prohibition of dumping new non-food related products, to empower the Minister to prescribe for such products in regulation, to create an offence for failing to comply with the provisions of the Act, and to provide for related matters .
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 October 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to ban evictions for the duration of the current housing emergency.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 7 October 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to establish a non-statutory register called the Certificate of Life to recognise a child that does not conform to World Health Organisation stillbirth standards of less than 500 grammes and a gestational age of less than 24 weeks.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 26 September 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Institutional Burials Act 2022 to enable the Director of Authorised Intervention to engage in cases where precise burial places cannot be identified but where inappropriate burials are likely to have taken place in an institutional setting, to provide for cases where persons who consider that they are related to persons thought to be buried on principal burial land indicate that an excavation of the land is their preference, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 2 September 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Curragh of Kildare Act 1961 to make provision for the management and use of the Curragh whereby the Minister may grant a licence to persons for continuous occupation of any part of the Curragh for a specified period of time, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 August 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 July 2022
Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the recording or publication without consent of certain images of persons who are dead, seriously injured or in shock as a result of an accident or other emergency, and to provide for connected matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 June 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Central Bank Act 1942 and prohibit financial service providers from discriminating against survivors of cancer from accessing financial services and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 June 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide for an autism strategy to be prepared and published, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 June 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide for measures to address market failures in the market for principal dwelling house mortgage loans, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels by limiting them to a maximum of a quarter of monthly household incomes and to establish a National Rent Authority for this purpose.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide for identification, management, restoration and bringing back to use of derelict buildings and to simplify and expedite applications to refurbish or change the use of upper floors or ‘over the shop’ for residential use by establishing in each local authority a special planning and building control approval system to be called a Town Centre First application process.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 and for that purpose to amend section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in relation to ministerial guidelines and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend section 38 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) to require estate agents and online platforms to only advertise properties that are compliant with the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 4 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to the display of posters and other advertisements for elections or polls relating to the Presidential Election Acts 1992 to 2006, the Electoral Acts 1992 to 2019, the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2019, the European Parliament Elections Acts 1992 to 2019 and the Referendum Acts 1992 to 2013; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the Minister for Education shall make regulations governing the implementation of an affordable school uniform policy in schools; and for this purpose to amend the Education Act of 1998.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to the determination, declaration and review of a national minimum hourly rate of pay for employees so as to arrive at and thereafter preserve an hourly rate that represents a living income; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 3 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to facilitate the rehoming of seized dogs in certain circumstances and to amend the licensing of dogs and for those purposes to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 and Control of Dogs Act 1986 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the installation of solar panels on school and community buildings without the need for planning permission, and for this purpose to amend S.I. No. 600 of 2001.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 3 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to secure in broadcasting a better reflection of the diversity of the people, for that purpose to amend the statutory duties of broadcasters, to provide for a quota of female composers or performers in relation to music content, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 3 May 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education Act 1988 (as amended) to make provision for the implementation of relationship and sexuality education in primary and post-primary schools without any influence of religious ethos on relationship and sexuality education, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 April 2022
Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the entire Carrigaline local electoral area shall be prescribed as a rent pressure zone; to ensure that where a substantial area of a local electoral area is prescribed as a rent pressure zone, the local electoral area shall be prescribed as a rent pressure zone in its entirety; and for those purposes to amend the Local Government Act 2019 and the Residential Tenancies Act 2004.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 April 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to provide for pay transparency in the advertising of jobs.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 April 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 to ensure employers provide employees with FFP-2 grade masks, or higher, where necessary during the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular to education workers and healthcare workers, and to provide for a review of this provision within 3 months of enactment.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 April 2022
Bill entitled an Act to make certain provisions, in accordance with the exigencies of the common good, in relation to property deposited in safe deposit boxes or other such safe keeping arrangements in certain institutions; to require such institutions to establish and maintain a register of deposited property and to take certain steps to identify and notify persons entitled to ownership of, or an interest in, certain deposited property and for those purposes to provide for the examination by institutions of certain deposited property that is unclaimed; to provide for inspection and retention on behalf of the State of unclaimed property by the Director of the National Museum of Ireland and inspection of unclaimed property by certain other bodies; to provide for disposal of unclaimed property that is not retained by the Director of the National Museum of Ireland, including by means of sale; to provide for the transfer of moneys from unclaimed property, including the proceeds of any sale of such property, to the Dormant Accounts Fund; to make certain provisions in relation to supervision and enforcement of compliance by institutions with the provisions of this Act; to make certain consequential amendments to other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 March 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a sui generis Debt Management Protocol for the farming sector— A. to provide for the disaggregation of lands charged with repayment of farm debt into two parcels, the "Farmlands" and the "Farmhouse", B. that debt secured on the parcel designated as the farmhouse be governed by the legislation, general law, and regulatory codes of conduct pertaining to a debtor's principal place of residence, and to take account of the special position of any co-owner thereof, C. for the role and regulation of receivers as credit servicers and as agent of the debtor, D. that possession and sale of the farmlands by the secured creditor be deferred until after a moratorium affording the debtor space and time to engage in preparation of a proposal of a "Farm Debt Settlement Arrangement”, E. further provisions relevant to early discharge of farm debt, following the approach of Directive (EU) 2019/1023, F. that the said measures be modelled on the company examinership provisions in the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1990, as to a moratorium and otherwise, but also reflect the provisions in the Personal Insolvency Acts, 2012 to 2015, regarding the Court's discretion to enforce on creditors a Farm Debt Settlement Arrangement proposal which modifies the terms of the secured loan but also satisfies section 71(1)(d)(i) and section 115(A)(9)(e) and (f) of the said Acts as to fairness for each class of creditors, and allows the farmer a fresh start for a farm with ongoing viability, G. for measures to open access to cross border liquidity for second mortgages at sustainable cost, and H. for the option of returning overindebted lands to State ownership in the interests of the patrimony, food security and the climate change agenda.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 March 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Litter Pollution Act 1997 to provide for public health and cleaner streets.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 March 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a public inquiry into the management, in connection with nursing homes, of the risks to human life and health posed by Covid-19; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 March 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 22 March 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 to improve the level of protection afforded to Ireland’s built heritage, to prescribe the role of architectural conservation officers, to strengthen the protection afforded by architectural conservation area designation, to increase the enforcement mechanisms and penalties for breaches of planning legislation resulting in damage to built heritage and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 March 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution.