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35 ingested laws from Ireland introduced in 2020. 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 · 18 December 2020
Act to provide for the adjustment of the restrictions, contained in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009, on increasing the remuneration payable to public servants and for that purpose to amend that Act and the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 16 December 2020
Act to amend the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 to amend the eligibility criteria for Debt Relief Notices; to make provision for the holding of certain meetings under that Act by remote means; to make further provision in relation to the maximum duration of a Personal Insolvency Arrangement; to provide for the performance of certain functions of a Personal Insolvency Practitioner by other persons in certain circumstances; to provide for the extension of the period of a protective certificate in Debt Settlement Arrangements and Personal Insolvency Arrangements; to extend the time limit for applying for a court review of a proposed Personal Insolvency Arrangement; to amend the conditions for a court review of a proposed Personal Insolvency Arrangement; to make provision for the making of confirmations of truth; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 December 2020
Act to give effect to Directive 2014/62/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the protection of the euro and other currencies against counterfeiting by criminal law, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2000/383/JHA and for that purpose to amend the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001; to give full effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1338/2001 of 28 June 2001 laying down measures necessary for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2009 of 18 December 2008; to give full effect to Regulation (EU) No. 1210/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2010 concerning authentication of euro coins and handling of euro coins unfit for circulation; and to give full effect to Decision ECB/2010/14 of the European Central Bank of 16 September 2010 on the authenticity and fitness checking and recirculation of euro banknotes, as amended by Decision ECB/2012/19 of 7 September 2012 and by Decision ECB/2019/2195 of 5 December 2019; to make further provision in relation to the designation of the National Analysis Centre for euro notes and the Coin National Analysis Centre for euro coins; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
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 · Dáil Éireann · 4 December 2020
Act to provide for the formation of a company, to be known as Seirbhís Aerloingseoireachta na hÉireann or, in the English language, the Irish Air Navigation Service, to provide air navigation services in relation to civil aviation, to define its functions and to provide for the conferral on it of certain functions of the Irish Aviation Authority; to provide for combining the aviation regulatory functions of the Irish Aviation Authority with the aviation regulatory functions of the Commission for Aviation Regulation; to make consequential and other amendments to the Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993; to amend the Aviation Regulation Act 2001 to confer powers on such Commission to review the market power of airport authorities and to enforce the European Communities (Dublin Airport Charges) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 116 of 2011); to enable the Minister for Transport to review the regulation of airport charges by such Commission; to provide for the dissolution of such Commission; to amend the Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 to increase the aggregate at any one time of moneys that may be borrowed under section 13 of that Act in the case of daa and any of its subsidiaries; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2020
Act to provide for the relocation of the Central Mental Hospital from its current premises in Dundrum, County Dublin to a premises in Portrane, County Dublin; to provide for the transfer of persons lawfully detained in the Central Mental Hospital Dundrum to the Central Mental Hospital Portrane; to provide for transitional arrangements; to provide for the closure of the former Central Mental Hospital Dundrum; to provide for the repeal of section 39 of the Mental Treatment Act 1961; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 18 November 2020
Act to make provision for the holding of certain meetings of credit unions by remote means; having regard to the risk to human life and public health posed by the disease known as Covid-19, to make exceptional provision in relation to the operation of certain provisions of the Credit Union Act 1997 for a certain period and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government; to make provision for attendance and voting by proxy at certain meetings of credit unions; for those and other purposes to amend the Credit Union Act 1997; to make certain provision for the term of office of members of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and for that purpose to amend the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012; to make provision in relation to certain loan agreements entered into by the State with the European Union and for that purpose to amend the Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 17 November 2020
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 2021; to amend that Act to specify the amount of the hospital utilisation credit applicable from 1 April 2021; to make a consequential amendment to the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 13 November 2020
Act to amend section 11 of the Planning and Development Act 2000; to provide, in connection with the crisis occasioned by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19, for the disregard, during such period or periods as are specified by order or orders of the Government made in the public interest, of certain periods of time mentioned in the Planning and Development Act 2000 and certain other enactments; to amend Part XA of the Planning and Development Act 2000 for the purpose of requiring An Bord Pleanála to refuse an application for substitute consent in the absence of exceptional circumstances and enabling members of the public to make submissions and observations in relation to the question as to whether such circumstances exist; to increase notice periods in relation to notices of termination served on tenants under tenancies of dwellings during the period from 11 January 2021 to 12 April 2021 for failure to pay rent due and to prohibit increases in rents on tenancies of dwellings during that period and, for those purposes, to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 5 November 2020
Act to amend the Children Act 2001 to make further provision, in relation to proceedings to which section 252 of that Act applies, in respect of the publication and inclusion in a broadcast of reports or pictures identifying or likely to identify certain children; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 October 2020
Act to make provision for certain matters consequent on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from membership of the European Union; to make provision to protect and maintain the Common Travel Area between the State and the United Kingdom and the rights and privileges associated therewith; to make provision, in the public interest and having regard to the Common Travel Area, to reduce the possibility of a serious disturbance in the economy of the State and in the sound functioning of a number of markets, sectors and fields in the State as a result of that withdrawal and to mitigate, where practicable, the effects of such a disturbance should it occur in those circumstances; in the spirit of the State’s commitment to the British-Irish Agreement done at Belfast on the 10th day of April, 1998, and having regard to the State’s membership of the European Union, to make exceptional provision for the reimbursement by the Health Service Executive to eligible persons resident in Northern Ireland of certain medical expenses incurred in a Member State in respect of necessary medical treatment during their stay in that Member State; to make further provision for the operation of extradition arrangements between the State and the other countries; to give further effect to Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1 December 2005 on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status; to make provision in relation to persons whose applications for international protection are determined to be inadmissible; to make provision for the recognition of certain divorces, legal separations and marriage annulments granted in the United Kingdom or Gibraltar; to make provision for the defence of qualified privilege to a defamation action to continue to apply to the publication of certain statements concerning certain events in, or connected with, the United Kingdom; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) No. 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC; for those purposes to amend certain enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 October 2020
Act, to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19; in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease and to limit the adverse consequences resulting, or likely to result from the spread of that disease; and having regard to the burden caused by that risk to the normal functioning of society; and recognising the likelihood that necessary restrictions imposed in order to reduce that spread and its effect on society will impede the ability of tenants to find alternative accommodation and the consequent impact on the well-being of persons and families and on the availability of vital public service functions in relation to housing; to make provision in relation to the operation of certain provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 during a period of restrictions imposed upon travel to, from or within certain geographical locations pursuant to regulations under section 31A of the Health Act 1947; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2020
Act to make further and better provision in relation to the enforcement of regulations under section 31A of the Health Act 1947; for that purpose, to make provision in relation to the prosecution of certain offences consisting of contraventions of those regulations, to provide for the payment of fixed sums by persons alleged to have committed certain such offences in lieu of their being prosecuted for those offences; to provide for the giving of directions by members of the Garda Síochána in certain circumstances; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 2020
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; to amend Part 7 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 and otherwise make provision for supports to certain sectors of the economy; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 October 2020
Act to provide for the reporting and investigation of serious accidents, accidents and incidents involving certain railways.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 October 2020
Act to provide for the deposit with the Child and Family Agency of certain evidence received by, and certain documents created by or for, the commission of investigation established by the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 57 of 2015); to provide for the making of copies of that evidence and those documents by the Commission and the deposit of those copies with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; to clarify certain matters with regard to the application of section 43 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 in relation to other evidence received by, and other documents created by or for, the said commission of investigation; to require the said commission of investigation to submit its final report to the Government not later than 30 October 2020; to provide for the dissolution of the Commission on 28 February 2021; for other unrelated purposes, to amend the Judicial Council Act 2019; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 21 September 2020
Act to provide for matters relating to forestry including, in relation to the Forestry Appeals Committee, reporting on the activities of the Committee, enabling the Committee to sit in divisions to determine appeals, procedures and arrangements for conduct of appeals by the Committee and the payment of fees to the Committee in respect of appeals; and for those purposes to amend the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001; to provide for the publication of information relating to applications for licences for felling, afforestation, forest road works or aerial fertilisation of forests; for those purposes to amend the Forestry Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 17 September 2020
Act to amend and extend the Investment Limited Partnerships Act 1994, the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 and the Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005; to amend Schedule 5 to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 September 2020
Act to amend the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 to give effect to Directive (EU) 2018/843 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 amending Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, and amending Directives 2009/138/EC and 2013/36/EU; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 August 2020
Act to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease, to provide for additional enforcement measures in respect of certain premises where intoxicating liquor is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises to ensure compliance with certain requirements, imposed by or under the Health Act 1947, breaches of which constitute criminal offences; to provide for additional bases for objection on the ground of good character to renewal of licences for certain premises; to provide for additional bases for objection on the ground of character to renewal of certificates of registration for clubs; to amend the Health Act 1947; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 July 2020
Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation; to otherwise make further provision in connection with finance; to amend Part 7 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 and otherwise make provision for supports to employers; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 July 2020
Act to increase notice periods in relation to notices of termination served on tenants during the period from the date of the passing of this Act to 10 January 2021 for failure to pay rent due and to prohibit increases in rents on tenancies of dwellings during that period; to make provision in relation to the giving of notifications, and notices of termination, by landlords to tenants and the Residential Tenancies Board in relation to arrears of rent; to extend the period within which a valuation list in relation to the rating authority area of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council shall be published; for those and other purposes, to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 and the Valuation Act 2001; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 22 July 2020
Act to make provision for the assignment and appointment of temporary coroners in certain exceptional circumstances; to provide for the authorisation of deputy coroners to act concurrently with coroners in certain exceptional circumstances; and for those and other purposes to amend the Coroners Act 1962; to provide for the admissibility, in certain circumstances, of business records in civil proceedings; to make provision for remote hearings and the use of electronic means in civil proceedings and the making of statements of truth; to make provision for the making of certain applications in certain proceedings using live video link, the giving of certain evidence using live video link, the remote hearing of certain proceedings in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, the amendment of section 17 of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, the power of a court to make arrangements for the conduct of certain proceedings and the repeal of sections 33 and 34 of the Prisons Act 2007; to make provision for the holding of meetings of State bodies by remote meeting; to make provision, having regard to the risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19, in relation to the holding of meetings of unincorporated bodies by remote meeting; to make provision for bodies conducting hearings under enactments to do so by remote means; to make provision for the execution of certain documents in counterpart; to amend the Courts of Justice Act 1953; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 July 2020
Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to provide for a new benefit to mitigate the adverse economic effects of the spread of the disease known as Covid-19; to provide for the attribution of paid social insurance contributions in respect of payments arising directly from the economic impacts of that disease; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 20 July 2020
Act, having regard to the risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and, in response to the economic difficulties caused by that disease, to make exceptional provision in relation to the operation of certain provisions of the Companies Act 2014 and the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893 for a certain period and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government and, for that purpose, to amend the Companies Act 2014 and the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893; to further amend the Companies Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 17 July 2020
Act to provide for the establishment of a Department of State to be known, in the Irish language, as An Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta or, in the English language, as the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; to amend section 3A of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 1998; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 July 2020
Act to make provision in relation to the giving of guarantees by the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation under the Credit Guarantee Act 2012 in accordance with a credit guarantee scheme made under that Act by that Minister of Government in response to the economic difficulties caused by the disease known as Covid-19; to place a monetary limit on the potential liability of that Minister of the Government in respect of such a credit guarantee scheme; to extend the classes of enterprise to which such a credit guarantee scheme may apply; and, for those purposes, to amend the Credit Guarantee Act 2012 and the Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Act 2016; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 July 2020
Act to enable the State to participate in the European instrument for temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency (SURE) established by Article 1 of Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672 of 19 May 2020 and, for that purpose, to enable the State to enter into the guarantee provided for in Article 11(2) and (3) of that Council Regulation; as respects a certain Fund (the Pan-European Guarantee Fund), the subject of a resolution of the board of directors of the European Investment Bank of 26 May 2020, and which Fund will be established in the circumstances as provided for in that resolution, to enable the State to participate in that Fund and, for that purpose, to enable the State to enter into a certain guarantee agreement and a certain contribution agreement connected with the operation of that Fund; to amend section 5 of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Act 2014 in relation to the giving of guarantees by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; to make provision for the enforcement of arbitral awards to which the Third Protocol (done at Strasbourg on 6 March 1959) to the General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Council of Europe (done at Paris on 2 September 1949) applies; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 June 2020
Act to amend the Health Act 1970 to alter the criteria in relation to eligibility for services under that Act; to provide, incrementally, 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 thirteen years; to provide for other miscellaneous amendments to that Act; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2020
Act to extend the purposes for which the levy on relevant disposals of petroleum products is paid; to amend and extend the objects, functions and powers of the National Oil Reserves Agency; to set the rate of the levy on relevant disposals of petroleum products; to make provision for the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to give a direction to the National Oil Reserves Agency in relation to the payment by it of an amount of the proceeds of the levy on relevant disposals of petroleum products collected and recovered into the Climate Action Fund; to establish the Climate Action Fund; to set the rate of the biofuel levy; to make certain other amendments in relation to biofuel obligations; for those purposes to amend and extend the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007; to provide for the provision by the National Treasury Management Agency of central treasury services to the National Oil Reserves Agency and Irish Water and for that purpose to amend the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 June 2020
Act to amend the Microenterprise Loan Fund Act 2012 to increase the maximum amount of moneys that the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation may grant under that Act to Microfinance Ireland; to extend the borrowing powers of Microfinance Ireland under that Act and, for that purpose, to increase the maximum aggregate amount of borrowings under that Act by Microfinance Ireland; to amend the European Investment Fund Agreement Act 2018 to increase the maximum aggregate liability in respect of contributions committed by the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine under all agreements entered into under that Act for the time being in force; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 March 2020
Act to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease and to mitigate the adverse economic consequences resulting, or likely to result from the spread of that disease and to mitigate its impact on the administration of vital public service functions; to make provision in relation to the operation of certain provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 during the period of 3 months following the enactment of this Act and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government; to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide, in certain circumstances, for the disregard of a certain period in the calculation of time limits referred to in that Act and in certain other enactments; to provide for the registration of certain health and social care professionals to fulfil the need for medical resources to alleviate the risk from Covid-19 to human life and public health and for those and related purposes to amend the Dentists Act 1985, the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, the Pharmacy Act 2007, the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, and the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011; to make provision, due to the exigencies of the public health emergency posed by the spread of Covid-19, for certain amendments and modifications to the provisions of the Mental Health Act 2001 relating to the carrying out of reviews under section 18 of that Act; to amend the Defence Act 1954 to enable the re-enlistment of formerly enlisted persons; to enable the provision of a temporary wage subsidy to certain employees; to make provision in relation to the operation of certain provisions of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 for a certain period following the enactment of this Act and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government and, for that purpose, to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967; to make provision allowing for the modified operation of certain aspects of the civil registration system, if required, for a limited period and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government, including by way of allowing certain persons to provide particulars to a registrar in writing rather than by appearing in person, and by allowing the staff of an tArd-Chláraitheoir to perform the functions of certain registrars in circumstances where the civil registration system is not available or able to perform its statutory functions as it ordinarily would be, and for those purposes, to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 March 2020
Act, to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of the disease known as Covid-19, to amend the Health Act 1947 to confer a power on the Minister for Health to make regulations prohibiting or restricting the holding of certain events or access to certain premises and to provide for enforcement measures; to provide for powers for certain medical officers of health to order, in certain circumstances, the detention of persons who are suspected to be potential sources of infection with the disease known as Covid-19 and to provide for enforcement measures in that regard; and to confer on the Minister for Health the power to designate areas as areas of infection of Covid-19 and to provide for related matters; to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts to provide for amendments in relation to entitlement to illness benefit for persons who have been diagnosed with, or are a probable source of infection with the disease known as Covid-19; and to provide for amendments in relation to jobseeker’s benefit and jobseeker’s allowance to mitigate the economic effects of the spread of the disease known as Covid-19; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 January 2020
Act to amend the Defence Act 1954, the Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1960, the Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1979 and the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006; and to provide for related matters.