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20 ingested laws from Ireland introduced in 2026. 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 · 26 June 2026
Act to make provision to enable certain registered pharmacists in retail pharmacy businesses to issue prescriptions for certain contraceptive drugs, medicines and products; for that purpose, to amend the Health Act 1970, the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995 and the Pharmacy Act 2007; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 June 2026
Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2024, the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2025 and the Planning and Development Act 2000, and, in that connection, to amend certain other enactments; to amend the Housing Finance Agency Act 1981 for the purpose of increasing the borrowing limit of the Housing Finance Agency; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2026
Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Oifig IS na hÉireann; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act) and for that purpose to amend the Central Bank Act 1942, the Communications Regulation Act 2002, the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 and the Freedom of Information Act 2014; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2026
Act to confer a power on the Minister for Transport, in the public interest and having regard to the strategic importance of Dublin Airport in supporting international connectivity, trade, tourism, investment and the movement of persons and cargo to, from and within the State, to make an order to amend or revoke a planning condition relating to the number of passengers that may use Dublin Airport for the purpose of travelling by air to or from another airport; to enable daa, public limited company, to make an application to the Minister for Transport for that purpose; to provide, before the making of such an order, for environmental assessments to be carried out by An Coimisiún Pleanála for the purposes of Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for community action in the field of water policy and Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora; to limit, having regard to the aforementioned importance of Dublin Airport, the planning conditions that may be imposed on development at that Airport and, for that purpose, to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Planning and Development Act 2024; to amend the Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Act 2019; to provide an exemption from the application of section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2026
Act to provide for the making available to An Post of additional monies for the purposes of maintaining a network of post offices; and for that purpose to amend the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2026
Act to enable the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to grant approval for the development and operation of a strategic gas reserve for the purpose of securing the State’s energy supply in case of emergency, for that purpose to disapply the Planning and Development Act 2000, the Planning and Development Act 2024 and certain provisions of the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011) in relation to such development; to give effect to Article 6(3) of Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, and Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment in relation to such development; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 15 June 2026
Act to amend the Domestic Violence Act 2018 to provide for the setting up of a Domestic Violence Judgments Register in which judgments containing certain information in relation to the conviction of persons of certain offences may, on the order of a court, be contained; to specify the circumstances in which a judgment may be included in the Register; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 June 2026
Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Oifig an Stiúrthóra um Chomhar Idirnáisiúnta Ceartais Choiriúil or, in the English language, as Office of the Director of Criminal Justice International Cooperation; to give effect to Directive (EU) 2023/1544 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 laying down harmonised rules on the designation of designated establishments and the appointment of legal representatives for the purpose of gathering electronic evidence in criminal proceedings; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2023/1543 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 on European Production Orders and European Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal proceedings and for the execution of custodial sentences following criminal proceedings and to provide for penalties for failure to comply with obligations arising thereunder; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2021/784 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 June 2026
Act to provide for additional requirements, relating to residency in the State, to be satisfied in order to be eligible for social housing support; to provide for an appeal of certain decisions relating to social housing support; for those purposes to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009; to provide for additional eligibility criteria for access to certain services provided to homeless persons under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988; to provide for withdrawal of such services in certain cases; to provide for an appeal in respect of such withdrawal; for those purposes to amend the Housing Act 1988; to make provision in relation to the conduct of mediations, adjudications and Tribunal hearings, and the determination of disputes, by the Residential Tenancies Board, and the enforcement of such determinations; to increase the penalties for summary offences and to provide for the service of fixed payment notices in respect of certain offences under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; to provide that the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 shall not apply to certain dwellings; for those and other purposes to amend that Act; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 May 2026
Act to provide for compliance by the State with its international legal obligation, as identified by the International Court of Justice in its advisory opinion of 19 July 2024, to take steps to prevent trade relations that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; and for that purpose to prohibit the importation of goods originating in certain Israeli settlements; to provide for the consequential amendment of the Customs Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2026
Act to amend the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 to provide for the restriction or removal of guardianship of a child in certain circumstances by order of a court in proceedings for that purpose, in the resolution of which the court shall regard the best interests of the child as the paramount consideration; to amend certain provisions of Part VA of the Child Care Act 1991 in relation to the appointment of, and legal representation for, guardians ad litem ; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 May 2026
Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2026
Act to provide for the dissolution of the National Asset Management Agency; to provide for the transfer to the National Treasury Management Agency of the assets, rights, liabilities, obligations, causes of action and entitlements of, or relating to, the National Asset Management Agency; to provide for the transfer to the National Treasury Management Agency or a subsidiary of it of certain assets, rights, liabilities, obligations and entitlements of, or relating to, the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited; to provide for additional functions of the National Treasury Management Agency and certain subsidiaries of it; for those purposes to provide for the repeal of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 and to amend the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013 and the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 and certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 April 2026
Act to provide for the designation, by order of the Government, of certain projects and programmes as critical infrastructure projects and critical infrastructure programmes; to provide for duties of certain public bodies in so far as they perform functions with respect to critical infrastructure projects or critical infrastructure programmes; to provide for a power for the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to give directions to certain public bodies with regard to the performance by those bodies of their functions in accordance with this Act; to modify the application of section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 March 2026
Act to amend the rate of levy under section 37 of the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007 for a certain period, and for such further period or periods as may be specified by order or orders (if any) of the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 March 2026
Act to provide for the taking of evidence in the State from a member or former member of An Garda Síochána, a member or former member of the Defence Forces, an office holder or former office holder of certain Departments of State or a former holder of ministerial office for the purposes of assisting the Omagh Bombing Inquiry established in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; to amend the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 2019; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
Act to enable the wardship court to extend, in certain circumstances, in respect of certain individual wardship cases, the time period specified in section 54(2) or section 54(3) of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 for a capacity declaration to be made under section 55(1) of the Act, in circumstances where the expiry of that time period is imminent and will not be met in those individual cases; for these and other purposes to amend the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 February 2026
Act to require the provision of certain information to a tenant and the Residential Tenancies Board on the commencement of a residential tenancy; to oblige tenants to allow access to a dwelling for purposes connected with an intended transfer of the dwelling; to make provision in relation to the setting of rents under residential tenancies; to provide for, and limit, the circumstances in which landlords can terminate certain tenancies of dwellings, including during and at the end of a tenancy of minimum duration; to provide for the frequency with which rent reviews may occur; to require certain information to be included in the residential tenancies register and the published register; to provide for the sharing of certain information by the Residential Tenancies Board with the Minister for Social Protection, the Revenue Commissioners and Sustainable Energy Ireland - the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; to repeal certain provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004; for those purposes to amend that Act; to provide for certain changes in relation to the eligibility for financial contributions under the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022; for those purposes to amend that Act; to amend provision in relation to short term letting constituting material change in use requiring development consent; for that purpose to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Planning and Development Act 2024; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 January 2026
An Act to provide for the entry into, and presence in, the State of persons seeking international protection, while having regard also to the power of the Executive in relation to these matters; to give effect to Directive (EU) 2024/1346 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast); to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection and for the content of the protection granted; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 establishing a common procedure for international protection in the Union and repealing Directive 2013/32/EU; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1350 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 establishing a Union Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Framework, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1147; to give further effect to Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1351 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on asylum and migration management; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1358 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on the establishment of ‘Eurodac’ for the comparison of biometric data in order to effectively apply Regulations (EU) 2024/1351 and (EU) 2024/1350 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 2001/55/EC and to identify illegally staying third country nationals and stateless persons and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States’ law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) 2024/1359 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1147; to give further effect to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on the 28th day of July 1951 and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on the 31st day of January 1967; to provide for the gathering of information from applicants for international protection; to provide for permission to enter and reside for family members of beneficiaries of international protection; to provide for the removal from the State of certain persons; to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Binse um Achomhairc i dtaobh Tearmainn agus Filleadh or, in the English language, as the Tribunal for Asylum and Returns Appeals and to provide for its functions; to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Oifig an Phríomh Chigire Nósanna Imeachta Teorann um Thearmann or, in the English language, as the Office of the Chief Inspector of Asylum Border Procedures and to provide for its functions; to amend, or repeal certain provisions of, the International Protection Act 2015; to amend the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, the Child Care Act 1991, the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995, the Immigration Act 1999, the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000, the Immigration Act 2004, the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012, the Children First Act 2015 and certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 January 2026
Act to amend the Firearms Act 1925 and the Prisons Act 2007 in relation to the possession, use or carriage of incapacitant spray by prison officers and to amend the Firearms Act 1925 in relation to the seizure and detention of firearms or ammunition by An Garda Síochána in the interest of public safety, security or peace; to amend the Courts of Justice Act 1936, the Courts Service Act 1998 and the Judicial Council Act 2019 in relation to certain non-judicial functions of the Chief Justice; to amend the Defence Act 1954 to provide for certain powers of the Defence Forces in relation to safeguarding, protecting and defending the security of the State, the deployment of the Defence Forces in aid of the civil power, and the protection of military installations by the Defence Forces; to provide for a power of provisional arrest without warrant in relation to extradition requests in certain circumstances and for that and other purposes to amend the Extradition Act 1965; to make further provision in relation to community service orders and for that purpose to amend the Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act 1983; to amend the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 and the Criminal Justice Act 1999 in relation to evidence in certain proceedings; to make further provision in relation to certification of citizenship in certain proceedings and for that purpose to amend the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001, the Maritime Security Act 2004, the Criminal Justice Act 2006, the International Criminal Court Act 2006, the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 and the European Union (Market Abuse) Regulations 2016; to amend the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 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; to give effect to the ratification by the State of certain amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, to further enable authorities in the State to co-operate with the International Criminal Court, and for those and other related purposes to amend the International Criminal Court Act 2006; to make further provision in relation to DNA profiles and for that purpose to amend the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014; to make provision for offences relating to accommodation offered in exchange for sexual activity and for that purpose to amend the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017; to make provision for the licensing of outdoor seating areas of licensed premises in certain circumstances and for transitional arrangements for certain outdoor seating areas temporarily licensed under the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021; to provide that the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration may, in respect of applications made to the Minister, issue to certain persons certificates of disregard in respect of certain historical convictions and other determinations relating to consensual sexual activity; to make further provision in respect of orders relating to anti social behaviour and for that and other purposes to amend the Children Act 2001 and the Criminal Justice Act 2006; to amend the Criminal Procedure Act 1967, the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995, the Bail Act 1997, the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011, the Prisons Act 2015, the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023, the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023, the Judicial Appointments Commission Act 2023 and the Family Courts Act 2024; and to provide for related matters.