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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 July 2014
Act to make provision for the creation, operation and regulation of bodies corporate to be known as Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 July 2014
Act to amend the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to provide for the application of that Act to the health or social care professions of optometrist and dispensing optician, to divide the health or social care profession of radiographer into the two health or social care professions of radiographer and radiation therapist, to permit a registration board to be the registration board of two or more designated professions, to introduce uniformity between that Act and certain provisions of other Acts which regulate health or social care professions that are not regulated by that Act, to repeal the Opticians Act 1956, to amend sections 67A, 67C and 67D of the Health Act 1970 as amended by section 19 of the Health (Amendment) Act 2013, and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 July 2014
Act to amend and extend the Staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas Act 1959 and the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 8 July 2014
Act to amend and extend the Civil Registration Act 2004; to amend the Immigration Act 2003; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 July 2014
Act to provide for the formation of a company to be known as the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland to facilitate availing by it of national and international sources of funding for the purposes of making credit available to enterprises and to other persons in the State through the provision of credit to providers of credit to enterprises and other persons; to allow the Minister for Finance to guarantee borrowings of and provide funding to that company, to amend section 54 of the Finance Act 1970, the First Schedule to the National Treasury Management Agency Act 1990, the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 and the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000, and to provide for connected matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 July 2014
Act to provide in certain circumstances for the Clerk-Assistant of Dáil Éireann to perform the functions of the Clerk of Dáil Éireann and for the Clerk-Assistant of Seanad Éireann to perform the functions of the Clerk of Seanad Éireann; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 July 2014
Act to provide, in pursuance of Article 34 of the Constitution, for the establishment of the Court of Appeal referred to in paragraph ii of Article 34.2 of the Constitution; to specify the jurisdiction of the court; to provide, in relation to the said court, for matters supplementary to the court and the judges and officers of that court; to provide that the Supreme Court may, in certain circumstances, hear certain applications made to it in respect of decisions of the Court of Appeal or the High Court otherwise than with an oral hearing; to provide that the Chief Justice or the President of the Court of Appeal may issue directions in relation to the conduct of appeals or applications made to the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal; to make provision in relation to the conduct of proceedings before those courts; for those purposes, to amend the Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act 1961, the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 and certain other enactments; to provide for the repeal of certain enactments; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 June 2014
Act to enable an education provider to describe itself in certain circumstances as a university; to amend the Universities Act 1997; to amend the Education Act 1998; to amend the Student Support Act 2011 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 June 2014
Act to provide for establishing and maintaining a register of persons who carry on lobbying activities; to provide for a code of conduct relating to carrying on lobbying activities; to impose restrictions on involvement in lobbying by certain former designated public officials; to amend the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 11 June 2014
Act to provide for standardised packaging of tobacco and tobacco products; to give effect in part to Directive No. 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 5 June 2014
Act to provide for the regulation of the immobilisation of vehicles and related activities in certain places and in this regard to confer functions on the National Transport Authority and to amend the Transport Act 1950, section 101B of the Road Traffic Act 1961, the Fishery Harbour Centres Act 1968, the Harbours Act 1996 and the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 June 2014
Act to provide for the dissolution of the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland and the transfer of all its functions, assets, liabilities and staff to the Environmental Protection Agency; to give effect to the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material done at Vienna on 8 July 2005; to amend the Radiological Protection Act 1991, the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 May 2014
Act to give further effect to Directive 2010/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity and for those and other purposes to amend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend the Pensions Act 1990 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 15 May 2014
Act to amend the Johnstown Castle Agricultural College (Amendment) Act 1959 and the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act 1988, and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 May 2014
Act to provide for and in connection with the reconstitution of the National Treasury Management Agency; to confer on that Agency new functionsrelating to State bodies and assets and proposals for investment; to transfer tothat Agency functions of the National Development Finance Agency relatingto infrastructure; to provide for the delegation to, and conferral on, theNational Treasury Management Agency of functions in relation to themanagement of certain claims for costs of a legal nature against, or in favourof, the State and certain related functions; to provide for the Ireland StrategicInvestment Fund and the transfer to it of the assets and liabilities of theNational Pensions Reserve Fund and to provide for its management by theNational Treasury Management Agency; to provide for the dissolution of theNational Pensions Reserve Fund Commission, the National DevelopmentFinance Agency and certain committees; for those and other purposes toamend the National Treasury Management Agency Act 1990, the NationalTreasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000 and certain otherenactments and to repeal the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000, theNational Development Finance Agency Act 2002 and certain otherenactments; to amend the State Authorities (Public Private PartnershipArrangements) Act 2002 and the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; andto provide for related purposes
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 May 2014
Act to make further provision in relation to housing provided by housing authorities and for that purpose to amend and extend the Housing Acts 1966 to 2014, to provide for financial assistance by housing authorities in respect of rent payable by certain housing tenants, to provide for the direct remission to a housing authority in respect of rent or rent-related obligations of certain social welfare payments and allowances payable to a person under the Social Welfare Acts and for that purpose to amend the law relating to such payments, and to provide for connected matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2014
Act to amend the Health Act 1970 to provide for the making available of a general practitioner medical and surgical service to persons who are ordinarily resident in the State and who have not attained the age of 6 years; to amend a definition in the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009; to repeal and replace section 8 of the Opticians Act 1956 to provide for the years which are to be election years for the purposes of that Act; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 17 April 2014
Act to provide for the establishment of a body known in the English language as Shannon Group, public limited company, or in the Irish language as Grúpa na Sionainne, cuideachta phoiblí theoranta, to define its functions, to provide for the transfer of shares held by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in Shannon Airport Authority, public limited company and in Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited to Shannon Group public limited company, to provide for the transfer of the ownership of lands held by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport at the Shannon Customs-Free Airport to Shannon Commercial Enterprises, to enable the Government by order to give effect to Article XI (Alternative A) of the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters specific to Aircraft Equipment that was opened for signature at Cape Town on 16 November 2001, to re-name the Dublin Airport Authority public limited company, to re-name Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited, to provide for the dissolution and reestablishment of Cork Airport Authority public limited company, to amend the Airports and Aviation Acts 1936 to 2004 and the Customs-free Airport Act 1947 , to provide for consequential amendments to certain other enactments, to amend the Transport (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Act 1982 and the Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act 1995 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 April 2014
Act to amend the Employment Permits Act 2003, to provide a defence to a foreign national in certain proceedings under that Act, to provide for civil proceedings to recompense certain foreign nationals for work done or services rendered in certain circumstances; to amend and extend the Employment Permits Act 2006; to make further provision for the grant of employment permits; to amend the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000; to amend the Immigration Act 2004; to amend the Aliens Order 1946; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 April 2014
for the purposes of making further and better provision for the care and protection of children and for those purposes to require the preparation, by certain providers of services to children, of child safeguarding statements; to require certain persons to make reports to the Child and Family Agency in respect of children in certain circumstances; to require certain persons to assist the Child and Family Agency in certain circumstances; to provide for the establishment of the Children First Inter-Departmental Implementation Group; to make provision for the preparation of sectoral implementation plans by Departments of State; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 April 2014
Act to amend the Electoral Act 1992 and the European Parliament Elections Act 1997; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 April 2014
Act to make provision for the effective and expeditious transfer of the business and other assets and liabilities of building societies and for that and other purposes to amend the Central Bank Act 1971; to make provision for certain payments out of the Central Fund to the account established by the ESM as agent on behalf of the euro area Member States to receive payments for the purpose of providing financial assistance to the Hellenic Republic; and to make provision for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 March 2014
Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known in the Irish language as An Coimisiún um Iomaíocht agus Cosaint Tomhaltóinrí or in the English language the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, to provide for the dissolution of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency, to amend the law relating to media mergers and for that and other purposes to amend the Competition Act 2002, the Consumer Protection Act 2007, the Criminal Justice Act 2011 and the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011, and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 March 2014
Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Coimisiún na hÉireann um Chearta an Duine agus Comhionannas or, in the English language, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission; to provide for the dissolution of the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority and the transfer of their functions to that body; to provide for the conferral of other functions on the said body; to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998, the Equal Status Act 2000 and the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003; to repeal the Human Rights Commission Act 2000; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 January 2014
Act to provide for the dissolution of the Railway Procurement Agency and the transfer of its functions and staff to the National Roads Authority; to amend the Roads Act 1993 and the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001; to provide for additional functions to be assigned to the National Roads Authority; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 December 2013
Act to make provision for the dissolution of Forfás; to transfer certain functions of Forfás to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Enterprise Ireland, the Industrial Development Agency (Ireland) and the Health and Safety Authority of Ireland; to provide for the Irish National Accreditation Board as a Committee of the Health and Safety Authority; to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003, the Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998, the Metrology Act 1996, the Industrial Development Act 1995, the Industrial Development Act 1993 and to provide for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 19 December 2013
Act to revise the law on the registration, national character, mortgage, sale, transfer, ownership and measurement of Irish ships, to repeal the Mercantile Marine Act 1955, to amend certain enactments in this regard, to amend the definition of "Safety Convention" in the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952 and to provide for connected matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 December 2013
Act to regulate the use and supply of sunbeds; to prohibit permitting persons under 18 years of age to use a sunbed on a sunbed premises; to prohibit the sale or hire of sunbeds to persons under 18 years of age; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 December 2013
Act to amend the Health Act 2004 to provide that the Health Service Executive shall cease to have a separate appropriation vote and shall become part of the appropriation vote of the office of the Minister for Health; to make a consequential amendment to the Valuation Act 2001; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 December 2013
Act to enable the Electricity Supply Board to engage in electronic communications networks and electronic communications services, to define the meaning of an electric line and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 December 2013
Act to amend the Adoption Act 2010; and to provide for relatedmatters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 December 2013
Act to appropriate to the proper supply services and purposes sums granted by the Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965, to make provision in relation to deferred surrender to the Central Fund of certain undischarged appropriations by reference to the capital supply services and purposes as provided for by section 91 of the Finance Act 2004 and, for the purpose of maintaining a sufficient amount of moneys in the paymaster general's supply account so as to enable the discharge of particular liabilities, to make provision for repayable advances from the Central Fund
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 11 December 2013
Act to provide for the assignment of a unique number to an individual to whom a health service is being, has been or may be provided; to provide for the assignment of a unique number to a person who provides a health service; to make provision for the establishment and maintenance of registers in respect of such numbers and other particulars of the individuals and other persons to whom the numbers are assigned; to make provision for the basis on which such registers may be accessed and the personal data contained therein may be processed; to provide for the delegation by order to the Health Service Executive of certain functions conferred on the Minister for Health; to provide for the consequential amendment of other enactments; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 December 2013
Act to provide for the making of a scheme for certain dwellings affected by pyrite; to provide for the establishment of the Pyrite Resolution Board to manage the implementation of such scheme; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 November 2013
Act to make provision for, and in relation to, the imposition of charges by Irish Water in respect of the provision by Irish Water of water services; to provide for the transfer, in part, of the functions of water services authorities under the Water Services Act 2007 to Irish Water; to repeal the Local Government (Delimitation of Water Supply Disconnection Powers) Act 1995, certain provisions of the Water Services Act 2013 and, for certain purposes, certain provisions of the Water Services Act 2007; to amend the Water Services Act 2007 and certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 November 2013
Act to revise European Parliament constituencies, to provide for the number of members to be elected for such constituencies, for those purposes to amend the European Parliament Elections Act 1997, and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 20 November 2013
Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend and extend the Pensions Act 1990; to make additional provision for the discharge of the liabilities in the winding up of certain occupational pension schemes and to provide for the discharge of liabilities of such schemes where employers are insolvent on or before the date of the wind up of such schemes; to provide for the payment, in certain circumstances, by the Minister for Finance of moneys to secure the discharge of certain liabilities in respect of certain occupational pension schemes that are being wound up where certain employers are insolvent on or before the date of the wind up of such schemes; to make additional provision for the restructuring of certain occupational pension schemes and for that purpose to provide for the reduction in the benefits being paid to certain persons under such schemes; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 November 2013
Act to amend the Companies (Amendment) Act 1990 with respect to the jurisdiction of the courts in examinerships, to amend sections 7, 17 and 18 of the Companies (Amendment) Act 1986 and section 128 of the Companies Act 1963, to make further provision about the duties and powers of designated officers in circumstances where search warrants have been issued under section 20 of the Companies Act 1990, to amend the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 by substituting a new section for section 18 thereof, to amend the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in relation to section 26(4) of that Act, to amend the Bankruptcy Act 1988 in relation to sections 17(2), 105(2), 130 and 141 of that Act, to enable levies to be imposed on statutory auditors and audit firms with respect to the external quality assurance of certain of their activities in the field of statutory audits, to enable the State to make provision in respect of a matter that Article 2(4) of Commission Decision 2011/30/EU of 19 January 2011 permits Member States to make provision in respect of and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 November 2013
Act to amend the Health Act 1970 and to make provision in relation to eligibility for services under that Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2013
Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 October 2013
Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts and the Pensions Act 1990; to provide for the recovery of certain benefits and assistance by the Minister for Social Protection, to amend the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 17 October 2013
Act to amend and extend the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 October 2013
Act to make further and better provision in relation to local government and, in particular, to amalgamate Limerick County Council with Limerick City Council, Waterford County Council with Waterford City Council and North Tipperary County Council with South Tipperary County Council, to provide for the position of chief executive in relation to each local authority, to dissolve town councils, to make provision for municipal districts, to assign additional reserved functions to local authority members, to dissolve county development boards and city development boards and make provision for the establishment of local community development committees, for planning and oversight of local and community development programmes, to provide for an increased role for local authorities in economic development and enterprise support, to amend the Local Government Act 1991 and provide for regional assemblies, to enable (subject to certain preconditions) a plebiscite to be held in the administrative areas of the local authorities in the Dublin area in respect of a directly elected Mayor for that area and for those and other purposes to amend the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2013, the Local Elections Acts 1974 to 2012 and other enactments relating to elections, the Housing Acts 1966 to 2013 and the Planning and Development Act 2000, to amend other acts in connection with the foregoing matters, to amend section 20 of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997 and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 September 2013
Act to amend the law to authorise the taking of bodily samples from persons suspected of certain criminal offences for forensic testing; to provide for the taking of certain bodily samples from persons who volunteer to have such samples taken from them for the purpose of the investigation of offences or incidents that may have involved the commission of offences; to provide for the establishment and operation by Forensic Science Ireland of the Department of Justice and Equality of a DNA Database System; to provide for the taking of certain bodily samples from persons suspected or convicted of certain criminal offences for the purpose of generating DNA profiles in respect of those persons to be entered in the investigation division of the DNA Database System; to provide for the taking of certain bodily samples from certain persons for elimination purposes and, where appropriate, the entry of their DNA profiles in the DNA Database System; to provide for the taking of bodily samples from persons, or samples from things, for the purpose of generating DNA profiles in respect of those persons or missing persons to be entered in the identification division of the DNA Database System; to provide for the purposes of that System; to provide, in certain circumstances, for the destruction of samples taken under this Act and the destruction, or removal from the DNA Database System, of any DNA profiles generated from those samples; to repeal the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence) Act 1990; to give effect to Council Decision 2008/615/JHA of 23 June 2008 and Council Decision 2008/616/JHA of 23 June 2008, the Agreement between the European Union and Iceland and Norway on the application of those two Council Decisions and an agreement between the State and another state insofar as those Council Decisions or agreements concern cooperation in relation to automated searching for or automated comparison of DNA data or automated searching for dactyloscopic data, as the case may be, and the exchange of such data and the reference data relating to them, by or between authorities which are responsible for the prevention, detection and investigation of criminal offences in the State and those other states or that other state, as the case may be; for that purpose to make provision for data protection and, in that regard, to amend the Data Protection Act 1988; to amend the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008; to amend the International Criminal Court Act 2006; to give effect to Council Framework Decision 2009/905/JHA of 30 November 2009 on Accreditation of forensic service providers carrying out laboratory activities; to amend the criminal law relating to the taking of fingerprints and palm prints from certain persons; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 29 July 2013
Act to provide for the dissolution of County Enterprise Boards and the transfer of their functions to Enterprise Ireland; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 July 2013
Act to provide for the reorganisation of Bord Gáis Éireann's transmission and distribution operations and energy business, and for that purpose for the establishment of subsidiaries of Bord Gáis Éireann; to provide for the continued public ownership of natural gas networks; to provide for the further implementation of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 by providing for the disposal of Bord Gáis Éireann's energy business and for the reorganisation of the ownership of Bord Gáis Éireann; to amend the Gas Act 1976, the Gas (Amendment) Act 1987, the Gas (Amendment) Act 2000, the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002 and the Water Services Act 2013; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 23 July 2013
Act to amend the law relating to Friendly Societies; to amend the law relating to Industrial and Provident Societies; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 July 2013
Act to enable members of the public to obtain access, to the greatest extent possible consistent with the public interest and the right to privacy, to information in the possession of public bodies, other bodies in receipt of funding from the State and certain other bodies and to enable persons to have personal information relating to them in the possession of such bodies corrected and, accordingly, to provide for a right of access to records held by such bodies, for necessary exceptions to that right and for assistance to persons to enable them to exercise it, to provide for the independent review both of decisions of such bodies relating to that right and of the operation of this Act generally (including the proceedings of such bodies pursuant to this Act) and, for those purposes, to provide for the continuance of the Office of Information Commissioner and to define its functions, to provide for the publication by such bodies of certain information about them relevant to the purposes of this Act, to repeal the Freedom of Information Act 1997 and the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2003, to amend the Central Bank Act 1942, to amend the Official Secrets Act 1963, to repeal certain other enactments, and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 July 2013
Act to make provision in relation to the licensing of bookmaking activities and, in particular, in relation to the conduct of bookmaking and bookmaking related operations by electronic means; for that and other purposes to amend the Betting Act 1931; to amend the Finance Act 2002; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 July 2013
Act to provide for the payment and recovery of fines imposed on persons convicted of offences; to provide that the court imposing any such fine on such a person shall take into account the person's financial circumstances; to provide for the making of community service orders in respect of such persons, or the commitment to imprisonment of such persons, in certain circumstances where such fines imposed on them are not paid; to consequentially repeal or amend other enactments; and to provide for related matters