Law· Public2024/36enacted
Social Welfare Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 October 2024
Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; and to provide for related matters.
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Law· Public2024/33enacted
Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2024
Act to provide, due to the continued high cost of global energy prices since the completion of payments under the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme III and the Submeter Support Scheme, for the establishment of further schemes in accordance with this Act out of resources available to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, to be known as the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme IV for the purpose of making further electricity costs emergency benefit payments during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Act and ending on 31 August 2025 and to be known as the Submeter Support Scheme II for the purpose of making submeter support scheme payments during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Act and ending on 31 August 2025; for the purpose of the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme IV to confer functions on the distribution system operator and electricity suppliers; for the purpose of the Submeter Support Scheme II to confer functions on electricity suppliers; to confer functions on the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in relation to each of the Schemes and for that purpose to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999; to provide that the electricity costs emergency benefit payments and the submeter support scheme payments are exempt from income tax and for that purpose to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; to enable the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to make regulations in relation to the operation of the Schemes; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2025/10enacted
Statute Law Revision Act 2025
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 3 October 2024
An Act to provide for the revision of statute law by revoking, with the exception of certain instruments, every instrument made before 1 January 1861, to identify those instruments that are not being revoked by this Act, to assign citations to those instruments so as to facilitate their citation, to provide a means by which prima facie evidence of certain instruments may be given, and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2026/1enacted
Credit Review Act 2026
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 October 2024
Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An tSeirbhís um Athbhreithniú Creidmheasa and to provide for its functions; to provide for the review by that body of certain credit decisions; to provide for the appointment of a chief executive officer of that body to be known as the Credit Reviewer; to provide for the repeal of section 210 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 and the revocation of guidelines issued under that section; for those purposes to provide for consequential amendments of other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/37enacted
Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Act 2024
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 1 October 2024
Act to amend the Maternity Protection Act 1994; to provide that absence by a member of one of the Houses of the Oireachtas from performing duties as such a member in certain circumstances shall be called maternity leave for a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas; to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998; to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; to provide for the preservation, in the public interest, of certain records relating to certain institutions and bodies; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/39enacted
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 September 2024
Act to amend the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 to provide for the continued regulation of persons deemed to be approved housing bodies under that Act; to amend the Affordable Housing Act 2021 to provide for different mechanisms for the allocation of, and the selection of tenants for, cost rental dwellings; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/40enacted
Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 27 September 2024
Act to regulate, for the purpose of Article 18.4.2° of the Constitution of Ireland, elections (including bye-elections as well as general elections) of those elected members of Seanad Éireann who are required by that Constitution to be elected by universities or other institutions of higher education in the State, to define the franchise on which such members are to be elected, to amend the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937, to provide for vacancies in Seanad Éireann in the Higher Education constituency to be filled from replacement candidates lists and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with such elections.
Law· Public2024/31enacted
Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 September 2024
Act to amend the Criminal Justice Act 1990 as regards its application to the sentencing of persons, who, at the time of the commission by them of certain offences to which that Act applies, were under the age of 18 years; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2026/2enacted
Defamation (Amendment) Act 2026
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 August 2024
Act to provide that defamation actions in the High Court shall not be tried with a jury; to give effect to Directive (EU) 2024/1069 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded claims or abusive court proceedings (‘Strategic lawsuits against public participation’) in so far as it relates to defamation proceedings; for those and other purposes to amend the Defamation Act 2009; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2025/4enacted
Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Act 2025
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 July 2024
Act to provide for the continued provision of sufficient and effective access to cash infrastructure for individuals and SMEs; to provide for access to cash criteria; to provide for a framework to manage future changes to access to cash infrastructure in a fair, equitable and transparent manner and for that purpose to provide for review and amendment of the access to cash criteria and for the identification of, and measures to be taken to remedy, local deficiencies in access to cash infrastructure and to ensure compliance with the access to cash criteria; to provide for the designation of entities on whom certain obligations are imposed to remedy local deficiencies and ensure compliance with the access to cash criteria; to provide for the monitoring and enforcement of obligations imposed on designated entities; to provide for the collection and publication of certain information by the Central Bank of Ireland; to provide for regulation by the Central Bank of Ireland of ATM deployers and cash-in-transit providers and for that purpose to provide for the registration of ATM deployers and cash-in-transit providers; to provide for the oversight of ATM operators and cash-in-transit providers and enforcement by the Central Bank of Ireland of compliance by ATM operators and cash-in-transit providers with their obligations under this Act; to provide for the sharing of information and cooperation between the Central Bank of Ireland and the Private Security Authority; for those and other purposes to amend the Central Bank Act 1942, the Central Bank Reform Act 2010, the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 and the Companies Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2026/11enacted
Mental Health Act 2026
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 July 2024
Act to provide for the admission to, and discharge from, registered acute mental health centres, of adult persons in certain circumstances and, for the involuntary admission of adult persons who meet the criteria for involuntary admission to such centres; to provide for the criteria for, and review of, involuntary admission of adult persons to registered acute mental health centres; and, for those purposes, to provide for the establishment of mental health review boards; to provide for the care and treatment of adult persons in registered acute mental health centres and to provide that treatment, other than in certain limited circumstances, shall not be given to adult persons without consent being given for such treatment; to regulate the application, in certain limited circumstances, of restrictive practices in respect of adult persons who are admitted to registered acute mental health centres; to provide for the admission to and discharge from registered acute mental health centres of children on a voluntary basis and with parental consent; to provide for the involuntary admission to, and discharge from, registered acute mental health centres of children who meet the criteria for involuntary admission of children to registered acute mental health centres by way of application to the Family District Court or the District Court, as the case may be; to provide for the criteria for, and review of, involuntary admission of children to registered acute mental health centres; to provide for the treatment of children in registered acute mental health centres and to provide that treatment, other than in certain limited circumstances, shall not be given to children without consent being given for such treatment; to regulate the application, in certain limited circumstances, of restrictive practices and the prohibition on administration of electro-convulsive therapy in respect of children who are admitted to registered acute mental health centres; to provide for applications to be made to court to provide for the entitlements of persons admitted to registered acute mental health centres; to provide for the continuation in being of the Mental Health Commission and the Inspector of Mental Health Services; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register of acute mental health centres, a register of community mental health centres and a register of community mental health services for such centres and services registered under and in accordance with this Act; to provide for the regulation of mental health services including registered acute mental health centres, registered community mental health centres and registered community mental health services; to provide for the monitoring and enforcement of compliance with the provisions of this Act by the Mental Health Commission; to repeal the Mental Health Act 2001 and certain other enactments; to provide for the amendment of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 and certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2025/2enacted
Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Act 2025
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 July 2024
Act to provide for the dissolution of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board and for its replacement with a unit within the Department of Transport to be known as the Marine Accident Investigation Unit; to provide for the investigation and reporting of marine accidents; to repeal the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act 2000; to provide for the regulation of offshore service vessels; for those and other purposes to amend the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952, the Merchant Shipping Act 1992 and the Merchant Shipping Act 2010; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/44enacted
Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2024
Act to provide for the conduct of, and participation in, general meetings of a company or industrial and provident society by the use of electronic communications technology; to repeal certain provisions of the Companies Act 2014 and the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893; to provide for the circumstances in which a company is not entitled to an audit exemption under section 358 of the Companies Act 2014; to provide for the disapplication of the Probation of Offenders Act 1907 to an offence under section 343 of the Companies Act 2014; to make certain amendments to the rescue process for small and micro companies; to provide for additional grounds for involuntary strike off of companies; to extend the list of competent authorities to which the Authority may disclose information, books or documents under section 792 of the Companies Act 2014; to provide for an offence of obstructing, interfering with or impeding an officer of the Corporate Enforcement Authority; to enable the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority to use money paid into the reserve fund in accordance with section 919 of the Companies Act 2014 in the performance of its functions under section 934 of that Act; to enable the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority to issue an interim direction in certain circumstances; to enable specified bodies to disclose information to the Corporate Enforcement Authority under section 944Q of the Companies Act 2014; and for those purposes, and other purposes, to amend the Companies Act 2014, the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893, and the Registration of Business Names Act 1963.
Law· Public2026/10enacted
Health Information Act 2026
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 July 2024
Act to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2025/327 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2025 on the European Health Data Space and amending Directive 2011/24/EU and Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 and for those and other purposes to provide for a duty for health services providers to share, in certain circumstances, a patient’s personal health data with other health services providers also providing care and treatment to the patient; to provide for the creation and assignment by the Health Service Executive of an Electronic Health Record in respect of every patient; to provide for the information that shall be contained in an Electronic Health Record; to provide that a health services provider shall record the personal public service number of each of his or her patients; to provide that the Health Service Executive may, where appropriate, use a personal public service number to identify a patient; to provide for access to all, or part of, an Electronic Health Record by certain categories of person; to provide for the restriction of such access in certain circumstances; to provide a patient with information in relation to access to his or her Electronic Health Record; to provide for the Minister to make regulations for the purposes of this Act; to provide for the purposes in relation to which an Electronic Health Record may be used; to provide that the Health Service Executive may enter into reciprocal arrangements with other jurisdictions in relation to the exchange of information contained in an Electronic Health Record; to provide that the Health Service Executive may request health services providers to provide the Health Service Executive with certain classes of personal health data; to provide that the Health Service Executive may request certain persons to provide the Health Service Executive with certain categories of health information; to provide that the Health Service Executive may make an application to the Circuit Court where a person fails to comply with a request; to provide for the purposes for which the Health Service Executive may use health information provided to it in accordance with this Act; to provide that the Health Service Executive shall prepare and publish guidelines for the purposes of this Act; to amend the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2026/18enacted
Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Act 2026
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2024
Act to amend the Údarás na Gaeltachta Act 1979; to make certain changes to the membership of, and provisions applying to, the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta; to extend the functions of Údarás na Gaeltachta; to provide for regional committees of Údarás na Gaeltachta; to provide for the election of certain members to the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta and for that purpose to amend the Electoral Act 1992, the Electoral Act 1997 and the Litter Pollution Act 1997; to amend the Official Languages Act 2003; to amend the Gaeltacht Act 2012; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/38enacted
Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 July 2024
Act to establish the Agriculture Appeals Review Panel to conduct reviews of decisions made by appeals officers under the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001; to prohibit unauthorised disclosures of information by members of the Agriculture Appeals Review Panel and the Forestry Appeals Committee; and, for those and other purposes, to amend the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001; to remove the requirement of members of the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board to vacate office on attaining the age of 70 years and, for that purpose, to amend the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/22enacted
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 July 2024
Act to provide for arrangements to apply to tenancies of dwellings referred to in section 3(1A) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; in the case of those tenancies to permit advance payment of rent exceeding an amount equivalent to one month’s rent only where a person is paying both rent and tuition fees to the same person; to limit the duration of those tenancies, other than at the request of the prospective tenant, to not more than 41 weeks; to apply sanctions for improper conduct by a landlord in relation to the duration of those tenancies; to enable a tenant of a dwelling referred to in section 3(1A) of that Act of 2004, whether or not a landlord has failed to comply with any obligations of the tenancy, to serve a notice of termination in the period between 1 May and 1 October in any year; and for those and other purposes to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004.
Law· Public2024/47enacted
Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 June 2024
Act to prohibit the sale by retail of tobacco products to persons under the age of 21 years; and for those and other related purposes, to amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 and the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/30enacted
Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 20 June 2024
Act to provide for an increase in the number of ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal and, for that purpose, to amend the Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act 1961; to amend the Immigration Act 2003, the Judicial Council Act 2019, the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990, the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 and the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023; to amend the law in relation to the age at which certain public servants are required to retire; to confer a power on the Minister for Justice to make regulations relating to the retirement, including varying the retirement age, of certain public servants; to confer a power on the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make regulations relating to the retirement of certain public servants, including varying the age at which such public servants shall retire; for those and other purposes, to amend the Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act 1919, the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956, the Local Government Act 2001, the Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 and the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/19enacted
Child Care (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 June 2024
Act to provide for additional enforcement measures in respect of the provision, in contravention of Part VIIA of the Child Care Act 1991, of prescribed early years services; to confer additional enforcement powers on the Child and Family Agency in respect of those measures; to provide for the regulation of childminding services; to repeal provisions for exemption, in certain cases, from the application of Part VIIA of the Child Care Act 1991 to the care of children; to provide for transitional arrangements; for those and other purposes to amend the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012, the Children First Act 2015 and the Childcare Support Act 2018; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/26enacted
Digital Services (Levy) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2024
Act to extend the power of Coimisiún na Meán enabling it to impose a levy, for the purpose of meeting its expenses and its working capital requirements, on providers of intermediary services and hosting services and, for that purpose, to amend the Broadcasting Act 2009; to enable the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, for the purpose of meeting its expenses and working capital requirements relating to the performance of its functions as the competent authority in respect of Articles 30, 31 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act), to impose a levy on providers of online platforms that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders and, for that purpose, to amend the Digital Services Act 2024; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/32enacted
Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2024
Act to give further effect to Directive 2009/103/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles, and the enforcement of the obligation to insure against such liability, as amended by Directive (EU) 2021/2118 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2021 and for that purpose and other purposes to amend the Insurance Act 1964, the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000, the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 and the European Union (Insurance and Reinsurance) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 485 of 2015); and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/24enacted
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2024
Act to provide for certain changes in the manner in which employment contributions are to be calculated for the purposes of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; to provide for a new benefit to be known as jobseeker’s pay-related benefit; to remove the need for certain notifications to be provided to persons who are the subject of certain investigations before a notice of attachment may be given to such persons; for those and other purposes, to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; to amend the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/29enacted
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 May 2024
Act to make certain provision in relation to residential services; and, for the foregoing purpose, to amend the Health Act 2007; to amend the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/25enacted
Defence (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2024
Act to amend the Defence Act 1954; to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Comhlacht Formhaoirsithe Seachtrach Óglaigh na hÉireann and to provide for its functions; to amend the National Archives Act 1986; to amend the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990; to amend the Ombudsman (Defence Forces) Act 2004; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2025/7enacted
Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Act 2025
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 April 2024
Act to provide for the making available of certain supports to survivors of residential institutional abuse; to provide for the dissolution of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board; to provide for the transfer of certain functions of that Board to the Minister for Education and Youth; to amend the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 and the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/27enacted
Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 April 2024
Act to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to make provision for the registration online of births and the notification and registration online of deaths; to make certain other amendments to that Act including for the purposes of the establishment and maintenance of a record of stillbirths and for the provision, in certain circumstances, of corroborated particulars of death certificates; to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 and the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/20enacted
Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 April 2024
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An tÚdarás Náisiúnta um Uathrollú Coigiltis Scoir; to provide for that body to establish, maintain and administer an automatic enrolment retirement savings system for employees in employment not covered by qualifying schemes; to provide for automatic enrolment and re-enrolment of participants in that system and for opting into and out of the system; to provide for payment of contributions by participants, their employers and the State, the investment of contributions and the payment of retirement savings out of participants’ accounts; to provide for the consequential amendments of certain enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/16enacted
Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 March 2024
Act to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the Future Ireland Fund for the purpose of supporting, in a consistent and sustainable manner, State expenditure in any year from 2041; to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund for the purpose of supporting State expenditure, in 2026 or any year thereafter, in the event of a significant deterioration, or likely such deterioration, in the economic or fiscal position of the State and for the purpose of supporting State expenditure, between 2026 and 2030, on certain environmental projects; to provide for the control and management of those funds by the National Treasury Management Agency; to provide for the transfer of certain assets to those funds; to provide for the dissolution of the National Surplus (Exceptional Contingencies) Reserve Fund and the transfer of the assets of that fund to the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund; for those and other purposes to amend the National Treasury Management Agency Act 1990, the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 and certain other enactments and to repeal the National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2026/15enacted
Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Act 2026
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 March 2024
Act to amend the Microenterprise Loan Fund Act 2012 to provide for the authorised share capital of Microfinance Ireland to be transferred from the Social Finance Foundation to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment; for a board of directors of Microfinance Ireland; for a chief executive officer of Microfinance Ireland; for arrangements for superannuation benefits for members of the staff of Microfinance Ireland; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/23enacted
Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 January 2024
An Act to amend the Health Act 1970, the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995, the Pharmacy Act 2007, the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 and the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/10enacted
Road Traffic Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 January 2024
Act to amend the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2023 and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/4enacted
Coroners (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 January 2024
Act to provide for the appointment of one or more coroners in the coroner’s district of Dublin; to provide for the assignment or appointment of a person to act temporarily as a coroner in a coroner’s district where necessary due to the number or nature of deaths in that district; to provide for the circumstances in which a person shall not be eligible for appointment, and shall cease to hold office, as a coroner or deputy coroner; and for those and other purposes to amend the Coroners Act 1962 and the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/15enacted
Research and Innovation Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 January 2024
Act to make further provision for the funding of research and innovation in all fields of activity and disciplines and, for that purpose, to provide for the establishment and functions of a body to be known as Taighde Éireann; to provide for the dissolution of Science Foundation Ireland, the transfer of its staff, records, assets and liabilities to Taighde Éireann; to amend the Higher Education Authority Act 2022 and to provide for the transfer of certain members of staff and records, assets and liabilities relating to research of An tÚdarás um Ard-Oideachas to Taighde Éireann; to provide for the repeal of certain provisions of the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003 and the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Act 2013 and the Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/21enacted
Charities (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 December 2023
Act to amend the Charities Act 2009; to make further provision in respect of the registration of charitable organisations; to require charitable organisations to apply for consent from the Charities Regulatory Authority in certain circumstances; to make further provision in respect of the removal of a charitable organisation from the register; to amend the accounting requirements for certain charitable organisations; to codify certain duties of charity trustees; to require charitable organisations to keep a record of members; to make further provision for enforcement; to provide exemptions for certain charitable organisations; to amend the Charities Act 1961; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2025/3enacted
Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Act 2025
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 December 2023
Act to amend the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017; to make provision regarding the calculation of expenses incurred by the Ombudsman in the performance of his or her functions; to provide for the appointment of additional persons to act as Ombudsman; to make further provision for the conduct of investigations; to provide for certain other consequential amendments; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/6enacted
Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 December 2023
Act to amend the Social Welfare Acts to exclude assessment of child maintenance payments from social welfare means tests and to repeal the provisions relating to liable relatives; to make further provision for certain matters relating to persons to whom permission to reside in the State is given under section 60(6) of the International Protection Act 2015 and, for that purpose, to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 and the International Protection Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2023/38enacted
Appropriation Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2023
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.
Law· Public2024/2enacted
Digital Services Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 December 2023
Act to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) and for that purpose to amend the Broadcasting Act 2009 and the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Private2023/P1enacted
The Royal Hibernian Academy (Amendment of Charter) Act 2023
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 November 2023
Act to amend the Charter of 1861 under which the Royal Hibernian Academy is incorporated and to alter the provisions relating to membership thereof and to provide for other matters connected therewith.
Law· Public2023/37enacted
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2023
Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to amend the Sick Leave Act 2022 and the Workplace Relations Act 2015; to make provision for the attribution, in certain circumstances, for the purposes of the State pension (contributory), of contributions by certain persons who provide long-term care and attention to certain other persons and for the deferral, on a voluntary basis, by certain persons in certain circumstances in accessing the State pension (contributory) and, for those and other purposes, to further amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/34enacted
Planning and Development Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 November 2023
An Act to consolidate and revise the law relating to planning and development; to provide for proper planning and sustainable development in the interests of the common good; to provide for the licensing of events and control of funfairs; for those purposes to repeal and replace the Planning and Development Act 2000; to amend certain other enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Law· Public2023/36enacted
Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 November 2023
Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1994 to specify the amount of premium to be paid from the Risk Equalisation Fund in respect of certain classes of insured persons from 1 April 2024; to make other amendments to that Act to specify the amount of the hospital utilisation credit applicable from 1 April 2024 and to specify the amount and percentage applicable for the purpose of definitions relating to high cost claims; to make a consequential amendment to the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2023/40enacted
Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 November 2023
Act to provide for the number of members of Dáil Éireann; for the revision of Dáil constituencies; for the number of members to be elected for such Dáil constituencies; to repeal the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/14enacted
Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 October 2023
Act to amend certain provisions of the Protection of Employment Act 1977; to provide for the establishment of an employment law review group to monitor, review and advise the Minister on matters relating to employment law; to amend certain provisions of the Companies Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2023/39enacted
Finance (No. 2) Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 October 2023
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; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2023/29enacted
Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 October 2023
Act to provide, due to the continued high cost of global energy prices since the completion of payments under the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme II, for the establishment of further schemes in accordance with this Act out of resources available to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, to be known as the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme III for the purpose of making further electricity costs emergency benefit payments during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Act and ending on 30 June 2024 and to be known as the Submeter Support Scheme for the purpose of making submeter support scheme payments during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Act and ending on 30 June 2024; for the purpose of the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme III to confer functions on the distribution system operator and electricity suppliers; for the purpose of the Submeter Support Scheme to confer functions on electricity suppliers; to confer functions on the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in relation to each of the Schemes and for that purpose to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999; to provide that the electricity costs emergency benefit payments and the submeter support scheme payments are exempt from income tax and for that purpose to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; to enable the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to make regulations in relation to the operation of the Scheme; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2023/31enacted
Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2023
Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Ghníomhaireacht um Fhoréigean Baile, Gnéasach agus Inscnebhunaithe and to provide for its functions; to provide for the transfer of certain functions, staff, rights and liabilities and records of the Child and Family Agency to the said body and for those purposes to amend the Child and Family Agency Act 2013; to amend the National Archives Act 1986; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2024/3enacted
Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 September 2023
Act to enable the State to participate in certain donor or trust funds established by the European Investment Bank, the Council of Europe Development Bank or the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and, for that purpose, to enable the State to enter into certain contribution agreements related to those funds prescribed by the Minister for Finance, and for those and other purposes to amend the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Act 1991 and the Council of Europe Development Bank Act 2004; to enable the State to participate in the provision of exceptional macro-financial assistance by the European Union to Ukraine and, for that purpose to enable the State to enter into the guarantee agreement provided for in Article 10 of Decision (EU) 2022/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 September 2022 and a contribution agreement as provided for in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2463 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022; to amend section 38 of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010; and to provide for related matters.
Law· Public2023/30enacted
Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Act 2023
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 August 2023
Act to give full effect to Articles 6, 7, 8 and 10 of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 of 6 October 2022 on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices and for that purpose to make provision for a cap, that is to say the market cap to apply to market revenues from the sale of electricity produced from certain sources for the period beginning on 1 December 2022 and ending on 30 June 2023; to provide for the payment of revenues of producers, intermediaries and traders in excess of the market cap to the collection agent; to provide for the calculation of the amounts payable; to provide for the obligations of producers, intermediaries and traders relating to the market cap and enforcement of certain obligations; to provide for the administration and collection of the amounts payable; to provide for a collection agent; to provide for the establishment and management of a market cap fund; to provide for the making of schemes for disbursement from the market cap fund in accordance with Article 10 of the Council Regulation; and to provide for related matters.