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Higgins, Alice-Mary.

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Bill· Public2026/79current

Adult Safeguarding Strategy Bill 2026

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 25 June 2026

Bill entitled an Act to require the Minister for Health to prepare periodic strategic plans for the purpose of protecting certain persons who are at risk of harm, to make certain provisions in relation to the implementation and review of such strategic plans and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2026/55defeated

Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Bill 2026

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 27 May 2026

BIll entitled an Act to amend the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1946 for the purpose of giving further effect to the Convention on International Civil Aviation opened for signature at Chicago on 7 December 1946; and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2026/35current

Child Maintenance Bill 2026

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 1 January 2026

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the administrative assessment, by the Revenue Commissioners, of liabilities of certain persons to pay periodic maintenance in respect of a child; to provide for a standard methodology for making such an assessment; to provide for the enforceability of such assessments in certain circumstances; to empower the Revenue Commissioners to depart from a standard methodology for making an assessment of child maintenance in certain circumstances; to provide for updated assessments of child maintenance in certain circumstances; to prohibit, in the interests of the common good, the making of certain applications to court unless certain circumstances apply; to provide for appeals from certain determinations and decisions of the Revenue Commissioners; and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2024/99current

Local Government (Support for Elected Members) Bill 2024

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 31 October 2024

Bill entitled an Act to provide administrative support for elected members of local authorities to assist in the performance of their duties; to amend the Local Government Act 2001; and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2024/95current

National Minimum Wage (Adequate Wages for Living) Bill 2024

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 11 October 2024

Bill entitled An Act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to provide for implementation of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.

Bill· Public2024/88current

Parole (Special Advocates) Bill 2024

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 9 October 2024

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Parole Act 2019 to provide for the appointment of special advocates to represent the interests of relevant applicants in certain cases before the Parole Board, and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2024/40current

Domestic Violence (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 20 May 2024

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Domestic Violence Act 2018 by means of extending the restrictions on those present in courtroom proceedings, and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2024/10defeated

Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 23 February 2024

Bill entitled an Act to provide for restrictions on the transit and export of weapons of war from and through the State to the state of Israel and to provide for appropriate inspections of planes seeking to transit weapons through the State, and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2023/57current

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 27 June 2023

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Disability Act 2005 and the Equal Status Act 2000 and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2023/42current

Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 9 May 2023

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Turf Development Act 1946 and the Forestry Act 1988 in order to reflect obligations regarding climate action and the protection and enhancement of biodiversity in the mandate and functions of the organisations established under those Acts.

Bill· Public2023/40defeated

Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 April 2023

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Electoral Reform Act 2022 to provide in the functions of An Coimisiún Toghcháin for the review of the electoral system and franchise for Seanad Éireann, and to provide in the functions of An Coimisiún Toghcháin for the review of voting age; to amend the Electoral Act 1997 to protect the right to freedom of association and expression for civil society organisations in Ireland, and to provide for free public transport on polling day ; and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2023/29withdrawn

Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 March 2023

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Electoral Reform Act 2022 to provide in the functions of An Coimisiún Toghcháin for the review of the electoral system and franchise for Seanad Éireann, and to provide in the functions of An Coimisiún Toghcháin for the review of voting age; to amend the Electoral Act 1997 to protect the right to freedom of association and expression for civil society organisations in Ireland, and to provide for free public transport on polling day ; and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2022/89defeated

Institutional Burials (Amendment) Bill 2022

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 26 September 2022

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Institutional Burials Act 2022 to enable the Director of Authorised Intervention to engage in cases where precise burial places cannot be identified but where inappropriate burials are likely to have taken place in an institutional setting, to provide for cases where persons who consider that they are related to persons thought to be buried on principal burial land indicate that an excavation of the land is their preference, and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2022/14current

Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 26 January 2022

Bill entitled an Act to amend the title of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 whereafter, following commencement of this Act, the Act of 1998 shall be titled the “Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Abuse Material Act 1998”(Amendment); to amend the title of the Child Trafficking and Pornography (Amendment) Act 2004 whereafter, following commencement of this Act, the Act of 2004 shall be titled the “Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Act 2004”; to substitute the term “Child Pornography” with “Child Sexual Exploitation Material” within those Acts and other Acts.

Bill· Public2021/133current

Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 September 2021

Bill entitled an Act to ban the importation of non-native honey bees with the aim of reducing the threat to and adverse impact upon biodiversity and the ecosystem arising from the introgression/crossing/cross-breeding of the native Irish Honey Bee, Apis mellifera mellifera, due to the importation of non-native species or sub-species of and/or strains derived from Apis mellifera and to provide for the appointment of authorised officers; to make it an offence to forge an animal health certificate; and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2021/130lapsed

Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 September 2021

Bill entitled an Act to protect the free and unencumbered access to facilities providing legal termination of pregnancy services; protect individuals providing or facilitating legal termination of pregnancy services from harassment; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Bill· Public2021/120current

Companies (Emission Reporting) Bill 2021

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 September 2021

Bill entitled an Act to require companies to make annual public disclosures in relation to the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their activities, to cause decreases in such emissions over time, to amend the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 and the Companies Act 2014, and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2021/118lapsed

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2021

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 September 2021

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 to provide for an amendment to section 38 of the same Act to extend the period for the registration of easements and profits à prendre.

Bill· Public2021/32defeated

Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 2 March 2021

Bill entitled an Act to give further effect to Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 and for that purpose to provide for contract award criteria in public contracts, to promote the use of social considerations and the best price-quality ratio and to establish a procedure for departing from best price-quality ratio, to ensure that section 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 applies to every contracting authority to which the said Directive relates in respect of a contract equal to or greater than a determinable monetary threshold, to provide for the issuing of guidelines concerning social considerations, to require annual reporting to each House of the Oireachtas concerning certain matters and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Bill· Public2020/71defeated

Deportation Moratorium (Covid-19) Bill 2020

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 2 December 2020

Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the deportation of persons from the State during the public health emergency posed by the spread of Covid-19 and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2020/47current

Seanad Bill 2020

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 23 July 2020

Bill entitled an Act to reform Seanad Éireann within the terms of the Constitution and for that purpose to expand the franchise at Seanad elections; to provide for the establishment of the Seanad Electoral Commission; to provide for the repeal of the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947 and the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937, and to provide for related matters.

Bill· Public2019/39current

Community Participation (Disability) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 June 2019

Bill entitled an Act to promote better provision in respect of the use by persons with disabilities of certain buildings and other places and transport services and for that purpose, to amend the Local Government Act 2001, the Planning and Development Act 2001, the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 and the Building Regulations 1997; to provide for the commencement of certain provisions of the Citizens Information Act 2007; and to provide for related matters.

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