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114 ingested bills from Ireland introduced in 2021. 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 · 1 January 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education Act 1998 to grant additional functions to the Inspectorate to examine and report to the Minister on the prevalence and standard of individual educational plans for children with special educational needs on an annual basis; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 January 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to lay before each House of the Oireachtas an annual report on the progress of the document entitled “Project Ireland 2040” that was published by the Government on 18 January 2019, of which the constituent components are the National Planning Framework and the National Development Plan, and for that purpose to amend and extend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2020 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 January 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to remove the lower minimum wage rates imposed on those employed between the ages of 16 and 20.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 1 January 2022
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the payment of the national minimum wage to certain persons doing work as interns or on work experience; for that purpose to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 8 December 2021
Bill entitled an Act to provide certain protections against unfair betting activities in relation to certain sporting events, for that purpose to regulate the operation of certain aircrafts over sporting events and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to establish a special committee of the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly to serve as a Dublin Bay Authority; to provide as an objective for the Authority the preservation for current and future generations of the distinctive character of Dublin Bay and its ecology as a coastal resource; to confer on the Authority the function of proposing and promoting policies and priorities for the protection and enhancement of the environment, and in particular the water quality, of Dublin Bay and of its natural habitats and wildlife; and to provide for connected matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to establish a statutory procedure whereby when a Seller of a property places the property on the market, a set of legal documents (the “Seller’s Legal Pack”) shall be compiled and advertised with the property and made available to potential buyers, such documents ensuring that buyers have key information relating to the property and ensuring the conveyancing process is more efficient.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to provide, in the interests of protecting children’s health, for an offence relating to causing or permitting a mechanically propelled vehicle to remain idle in the vicinity of a school, and for those purposes to make certain provisions in relation to the powers of members of the Garda Síochána, the provision of traffic signs and the payment of a fixed charge as an alternative to prosecution for such an offence, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 and the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1992 to 2011 to make exceptional provision for peat extraction for the purpose of horticulture for a temporary period in the public interest in order to mitigate the adverse consequences resulting, or likely to result from an interruption to supply and to provide for a just transition.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Local Government Act 2001 by making further and better provision in respect of certain absences by a member of a local authority from meetings of the authority and, for that purpose, to provide that such a member may apply for and be granted maternity leave, adoptive leave or parental leave or force majeure leave as is appropriate in respect of any such absences and an application for such leave shall, in so far as is practicable, be in a manner similar to an application by a member of the staff of that local authority for leave of absence under the relevant provisions of the Maternity Protection Acts 1994 and 2004, the Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 and 2005 or the Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2019, as appropriate; to amend section 18 of the Local Government Act 2001 in so far as it relates to deemed resignation from a local authority by a member of such an authority for non-attendance; and to provide for connected matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education Act 1998 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006 to make provision for an entitlement to bereavement leave to an employee who is a bereaved parent of a child who has died and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 2 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the prevention of the targeted picketing of a private residence and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 18 October 2021
Bill entitled an Act to reduce restrictions on the power of the Electricity Supply Board to carry out works concerning the levels on the Shannon Lakes (Lough Derg, Lough Ree and Lough Allen), for this purpose to amend the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1934; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 October 2021
Bill entitled Act to provide for the automatic extension of notice periods with respect to residential tenancies where a tenant is certified as at risk of homelessness and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to prohibit the practice of designating employment as self-employment; to bring the Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and doctors in training under the protection of the Act; to limit the race to the bottom on workers' rights by extending elements of the Act to the self-employed; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2021
Bill entitled an Act to enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to inspect certain emergency homeless residential accommodation in respect of which assistance has been or is being given under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 by a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2001, to enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to inspect reception centres and accommodation centres provided for asylum seekers to which the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 230 of 2018) relate, and for those purposes to amend the Health Act 2007 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to ensure that mothers receiving maternity care may be accompanied in hospital during childbirth and on occasions prior and subsequent to the birth; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to ban the importation of non-native honey bees with the aim of reducing the threat to and adverse impact upon biodiversity and the ecosystem arising from the introgression/crossing/cross-breeding of the native Irish Honey Bee, Apis mellifera mellifera, due to the importation of non-native species or sub-species of and/or strains derived from Apis mellifera and to provide for the appointment of authorised officers; to make it an offence to forge an animal health certificate; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 27 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the extension of the Civil Registration Service to the registration of certain information regarding wills and for those purposes to revise the law relating to the Civil Registration Service and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to protect the free and unencumbered access to facilities providing legal termination of pregnancy services; protect individuals providing or facilitating legal termination of pregnancy services from harassment; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 to provide for a definition of fresh air based on CO2 levels in the workplace as an emergency Covid-19 prevention measure; to provide for health and safety inspectors to take CO2 measurements and issue improvement or prohibition notices; to provide for employees to request inspections; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the regulation of gender balance on the boards and governing councils of corporate bodies and related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend, in the interest of the common good, the Betting Act 1931 so as to prevent the placing of bets or otherwise dealing in bets that involve the use of a credit card, and for that purpose to prohibit the acceptance of such bets or dealing in such bets by providing that no licence shall be issued by the Revenue Commissioners under that Act unless the applicant for the licence has given them an undertaking not to accept bets or otherwise deal in bets that involve the use either directly or indirectly of a credit card, to amend sections 5C and 16 of that Act and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011 to provide for transparency regarding transactions involving property and for those purposes to expand the register that records residential property sales prices, to establish a land and other non-residential property transaction database and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to delete the sunset clause which affords an exemption to developers who secure planning permission before 2026 to provide 20 per cent of the relevant land or houses for social and affordable housing.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 to provide for an amendment to section 38 of the same Act to extend the period for the registration of easements and profits à prendre.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to require companies to make annual public disclosures in relation to the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their activities, to cause decreases in such emissions over time, to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 and the Companies Act 2014, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to entitle surviving cohabitants to a contributory pension; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Coimisiún Náisiúnta um Thrasdul Cóir or, in the English language, the National Just Transition Commission to oversee the bringing together of workers, communities, employers and government in social dialogue to drive the plans, policies and investments needed for a fair transformation to a low-carbon economy; to require the preparation, by certain prescribed bodies, of just transition plans; to provide for the conferral of other functions on the said body; to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (as amended by the 2021 Act); and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2020 so as to provide for greater security of tenure and rent certainty for tenants, and to provide for connected matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the Minister for Education shall make regulations governing the collection by schools of voluntary contributions from parents/guardians; to provide for the publication of the total monies collected annually and a detailed expenditure of those monies by schools; and for those purposes to amend the Education Act 1998.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Local Government Act 1998 and provide for a statutory review of the demographics and socio-economic profile of each local authority in order to assess required funding and determine funding allocations.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend certain provisions of the Credit Union Act 1997, in particular, to provide for the amendment of the objects of credit unions to include the provision to its members of additional financial services as are for their mutual benefit; to provide for the establishment of a Credit Union Policy Committee; and to provide for miscellaneous matters relating to credit unions.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for ease of access to a housing adaptation grant for people with a disability for those applicants qualifying for same and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2014 and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the law relating to the liability of builders, developers and others involved in the carrying out of residential construction works; to specify certain requirements applicable to residential construction works; to provide for certain duties to apply to such works; to provide for a means of redress for persons affected by housing defects and to specify the limitation periods relating to claims for such redress and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 to establish specific criteria applicable for orphan medicinal products for the purposes of the Health Service Executive making a relevant decision regarding adding an item to the Reimbursement List.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to provide for fairness in the market for property insurance, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 June 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended) to provide for a prohibition on rent increases for all existing and new tenancies for three years.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 16 June 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend S.I. No. 600 of 2001 of the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001, to provide for the removal of planning restrictions relating to installations of solar panels on public buildings including schools, homes, industrial buildings, light industrial buildings and agricultural holdings, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 June 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Mental Health Act 2001 and for that purpose to provide for the right of minors over the age of 16 to consent to mental health treatment and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 31 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements as they relate to incidents of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act further to regulate in accordance with the principles of social justice and to delimit by law the exercise of private property rights, insofar as such exercise gives rise to the assessment of compensation payable by local authorities in respect of the compulsory acquisition of development land, with a view to reconciling the exercise of those rights with the exigencies of the common good, and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide for a specific percentage of lands in a private development to be limited for purchase by first-time buyers and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 19 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to industrial and provident societies and for that purpose to amend the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893 and to provide for connected matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 in order to restrict certain developments in fossil fuels infrastructure and high energy usage data centres, to remove some developments from listing as strategic development infrastructure projects, to revise the procedure for making applications directly to An Bord Pleanála and to ensure that regard be given to the State’s climate targets and commitments and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 17 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to end sub-minimum rates of pay for those who have attained the age of 16, and for those who are entering their first two years of employment.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act to establish a review group to examine the route of the electricity interconnection between the State and Northern Ireland of the project known as the North-South Interconnector, to define the review group’s terms of reference and to require it to submit a report to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications as regards the placement of high voltage power cables on the route of the North-South Interconnector in the State, and to provide for related matters.