65 ingested laws from Ireland introduced in 2022. Year filters use the introduced date shown on each card. Walk years back as far as this source still publishes.
Act to regulate the provision of any treatment or procedure, including such treatment or procedure for the purposes of surrogacy within or, in relation to certain persons connected with the State, outside the State, that involves the handling of gametes, embryos or tissues, or any combination thereof, for the purposes of establishing, or preserving the possibility of establishing, a pregnancy (to be known as “AHR treatment”) and, to that end, to prohibit a person from providing, within the State, AHR treatment unless the person holds a licence, granted by a body established by this Act, to be known as “ An tÚdarás Rialála um Atáirgeadh Daonna Cuidithe ” or, in the English language, the “Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority” (otherwise referred to in this Act as the “AHRRA”), authorising the person to provide the AHR treatment concerned; to regulate research involving embryos, the derivation, collection, storage or use of embryonic stem cells or stem cell lines or the derivation, collection, storage or use of induced pluripotent stem cells or stem cell lines (to be known collectively as “ESC research”), and, to that end, to prohibit a person from undertaking ESC research unless the person holds a licence, granted by the AHRRA, authorising the person to undertake the ESC research concerned; to provide certain rights for a person born as a result of AHR treatment to access information concerning his or her origins; to provide for a comprehensive regulatory scheme (including the suspension or revocation of licences granted under this Act and the imposition of, inter alia , pecuniary sanctions on holders, or certain former holders, of licences) overseen by the AHRRA; to provide for consequential and other amendments to other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Act to give further effect to Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States, as amended by Council Framework Decision of 26 February 2009 amending Framework Decisions 2002/584/JHA, 2005/214/JHA, 2006/783/JHA, 2008/909/JHA and 2008/947/JHA, thereby enhancing the procedural rights of persons and fostering the application of the principle of mutual recognition to decisions rendered in the absence of the person concerned at the trial; for that and other purposes to amend the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003; and to provide for related matters.
Act to amend the law in relation to providers of high cost credit, including in relation to the licensing of such persons, and for that purpose to amend the Consumer Credit Act 1995 and to make consequential amendments to other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise; to otherwise make further provision in connection with finance; to make provision for the exemption from income tax of the payment generally referred to and commonly known as the Pandemic Special Recognition Payment and for that purpose to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; to make provision for supports to employers and certain businesses and for that purpose to amend Part 7 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020, the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 and the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010; to provide for the repayment of stamp duty on cost rental dwellings and for that purpose to amend the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999; to provide for the waiver of excise duty charged on certain special exemption orders granted under section 5 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1927; to provide for the tax treatment of certain payments to holders of sea-fishing boat licences arising under a scheme to be established by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/1755 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October 2021 and for that purpose to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; to provide for cost recovery mechanisms in relation to the Central Bank of Ireland, as operator of two beneficial ownership registers; and to provide for related matters.
Act to provide for the appointment from time to time by the Government of a corporation sole, to be called a Director of Authorised Intervention, for the purposes of excavating land associated with an institution owned, operated, controlled or funded by a public body and, having regard to the need to accord dignity to persons buried in that land, recovering human remains buried in that land in a manifestly inappropriate manner; to provide, where appropriate, for the establishment of an Identification Programme; to provide for the participation of certain relatives of persons thought to be buried in the land concerned in the Programme; to provide for the establishment, by Forensic Science Ireland, of a DNA (Historic Remains) Database and a related Database for personal information for the purposes of that Programme; to provide for final arrangements for the human remains recovered from such land; for those and related purposes to enable a Director in certain circumstances to access and carry out works over principal burial land and ancillary burial land and, where necessary, on land ancillary to principal burial land and ancillary burial land and to provide for the payment of compensation in certain circumstances to persons for interference with an interest in or right over such land; to provide for the carrying out of remedial works on land when work on the land concerned is completed; to provide for the establishment of an Advisory Board to provide advice and guidance to a Director in the performance of his or her functions; to provide that a relevant Minister may make regulations, having regard to potential developments in forensic science, to enable forensic testing of samples in certain circumstances for the purposes of identification of human remains after an Identification Programme is completed; to provide, on the dissolution of an Office of Director, for the transfer of any remaining functions, rights, liabilities and records to a relevant Minister; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and the Planning and Development Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.
Act to give effect to Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law and for that purpose to amend and extend the Protected Disclosures Act 2014; to provide for the establishment of the Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner and to confer functions on it; to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2014, the Ombudsman Act 1980 and the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Act to amend the Health Act 2004 to provide for the conferral of certain functions on the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; to provide for consultation in certain matters between, and joint functions of, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; to provide for revised corporate governance and accountability arrangements of the Health Service Executive; to amend the Disability Act 2005; to amend the Health Act 2007; and to provide for related matters.
Act to give effect to the implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/1 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market; for that purpose to provide for a system of non-criminal enforcement of certain provisions of competition law, including the appointment and empowerment of independent adjudication officers, and the issuing of prohibition notices in response to certain suspected infringements of competition law; to provide for a system of enforcement and non-criminal penalties in relation to certain breaches of competition law, including by the imposition of non-criminal structural and behavioural remedies and certain non-criminal financial sanctions, and to provide for processes by which such non-criminal sanctions may be appealed, remitted or confirmed by the High Court; to provide for a leniency programme in relation to certain undertakings; to provide for cooperation between competition authorities in the European Union and certain bodies in the State; to increase the penalties for certain criminal offences for breach of competition law; to provide additional powers of surveillance to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in relation to the investigation of certain criminal offences; to amend certain provisions relating to the procedure for notifying mergers to the relevant authorities; for those and other purposes to amend the Competition Act 2002, the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014, the Communications Regulation Act 2002, the Consumer Protection Act 2007 and the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009; and to provide for related matters.
Act to make provision, due to the exceptional rise in global energy prices, for the establishment of a scheme to be known as the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme for the purpose of making, on a once-off basis, an electricity costs emergency benefit payment in the year ending 31 December 2022 in respect of domestic electricity accounts in accordance with this Act out of resources available to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications; for that purpose to confer functions on the distribution system operator and electricity suppliers; to confer functions on the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in relation to the Scheme and for that purpose to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999; to provide that electricity costs emergency benefit 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.
Act to amend the Broadcasting Act 2009 to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Coimisiún na Meán; to provide for the implementation of Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/1808 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018; for the purpose of fulfilling the State’s responsibilities under those Directives, or otherwise in the interests of the common good, to impose obligations on providers of broadcasting services and audiovisual on-demand media services, and to provide for the regulation of content available on relevant online services and harmful online content available on designated online services; to enable authorised officers of Coimisiún na Meán to carry out investigations for the purposes of ensuring compliance with obligations imposed on persons by or under this Act; to provide for sanctions to be imposed on persons for failure to comply with obligations imposed by or under this Act, including to enable Coimisiún na Meán to impose administrative financial sanctions on providers of broadcasting services, audiovisual on-demand media services and designated online services for failure to comply with such obligations; to enable Coimisiún na Meán, for the purpose of meeting its expenses and its working capital requirements, to impose a levy on providers of broadcasting services, audiovisual on-demand media services and designated online services; to establish a register of providers of audiovisual on-demand media services; to enable Coimisiún na Meán to impose a levy on providers of audiovisual media services for the purposes of funding a scheme to support the production of European works; to enable Coimisiún na Meán to prepare a scheme for the provision of funds to community sound broadcasters for the support of good professional journalistic practices; to provide for the dissolution of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the transfer of its functions to Coimisiún na Meán; to otherwise amend and extend the Broadcasting Act 2009; to provide for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Act to provide further protection for employees in relation to the payment of wages; to provide for the treatment of certain voluntary payments made to or left for employees and contract workers; to provide for obligations on employers relating to the fair distribution of certain tips and gratuities; to provide for obligations on employers and certain other persons to inform the public of the treatment of tips and gratuities and, for those purposes, to amend the Payment of Wages Act 1991, the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 and the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Act to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 to provide for payments to employees in respect of certain lay-off periods during the period beginning on 13 March 2020 and ending on 30 September 2021; and to provide for related matters.
Act to provide for the establishment of a register to be known in the Irish
language as Clár Tionscail Foirgníochta na hÉireann and in the English
language as the Construction Industry Register Ireland; to provide for
appointment, by order of the Government, of a body to be the registration
body to regulate providers of building works; to provide for determination by
the registration body of standards and competence required of providers of
building works; to cause any complaints against those providers to be
investigated and adjudicated upon; to establish an appeals committee to hear
and determine appeals against certain decisions of the registration body; to
appoint the registration body to be the competent authority for the purposes
of the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications)
Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 8 of 2017); to amend the Building Control Act
2007; to amend the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 by providing
for certain rental income of a person who is receiving care services or his or
her partner under a tenancy of the principal residence of that person to be
assessed at a lower rate than other income of that person; to enable the rate at
which such rental income is to be assessed to be reduced or to enable such
rental income to be disregarded; to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004
by providing for an increase of the notice period for termination of certain
tenancies, to require landlords to serve a copy of any notice of termination on
the Board, and to enable the Board to assist in providing contact details of
tenants to landlords for the purpose of facilitating a reletting offer; to amend
the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 by
providing for an increase of the period permitted for an application for
registration as an approved housing body; to amend
Act to make further and better provision in respect of access by certain persons to information concerning their origins and, for that purpose, to provide for the access by adopted persons and persons who have been the subject of incorrect birth registrations or certain care arrangements to their birth certificates and other information and items relating to them; to provide, where such persons are deceased, for the access in certain circumstances by their children or other next of kin to such information or items; to provide for the making available, by the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Child and Family Agency, of a service for the tracing of certain persons; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register to be known as the Contact Preference Register; to provide for the safeguarding and transfer to the Adoption Authority of Ireland of certain records relating to the birth, adoption and care of certain persons; to amend the Succession Act 1965 to make provision in respect of persons who have been the subject of incorrect birth registrations; to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to make additional provision in respect of persons who are the subject of incorrect birth registrations; to amend the National Archives Act 1986; to amend the Adoption Act 2010; and to provide for related matters.
Act to provide for changes to the functions and governance of An tÚdarás um Ard-Oideachas and the oversight by it of higher education providers which are designated institutions of higher education under this Act; to provide for the preparation, review and amendment of a strategy for tertiary education; to provide for better engagement with students and equity of access to, and participation and the promotion of success in, higher education and lifelong and flexible learning; to provide for the designation of certain higher education providers as designated institutions of higher education and, if appropriate, the removal of such designation in certain circumstances; to amend the provisions regarding the composition of the governing authorities or governing bodies of certain designated institutions of higher education, including the Supplemental Letters Patent of 1911 in respect of Trinity College, Dublin; for those purposes, to repeal and replace the Higher Education Authority Act 1971 and to amend the Universities Act 1997, the Technological Universities Act 2018, the Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992, the Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act 1994, the National College of Art and Design Act 1971, the Student Support Act 2011, the Industrial Training Act 1967, the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 and the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.