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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.
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.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 27 May 2026
Bill entitled an Act to give effect to the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production, transfer, development and investment in autonomous weapons systems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 31 May 2021
Bill entitled an Act to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements as they relate to incidents of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 May 2019
Bill entitled an Act 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 related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 25 March 2019
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 to Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 and for those purposes 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 persons carrying out functions for or on behalf of organs of State, 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.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 25 April 2018
Bill entitled an Act to prohibit conversion therapy, as a deceptive and harmful act or practice against a person's sexual orientation, gender identity and, or gender expression.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 January 2018
Bill entitled an Act to give effect to the State's obligations arising under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and under customary international humanitarian law; and for that purpose to make it an offence for a person to import or sell goods or services originating in an occupied territory or to extract resources from an occupied territory in certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 12 July 2017
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a refugee or a person eligible for subsidiary protection to apply for members of their family, including a grandparent, parent, brother, sister, child, grandchild, ward or guardian, to enter and reside in the State
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 May 2017
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977-2016 to provide for the decriminalisation for possession of controlled drugs for personal use and to provide for regulations regarding personal use; to establish a Drug Dissuasion Service to case-manage persons found in possession of controlled drugs and to divert people away from the courts by providing a system of harm reduction measures including drug awareness, drug rehabilitation and community engagement programmes; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 30 March 2017
for the purposes of making further and better provision for the care and protection of adults who are at risk; to establish the National Adult Safeguarding Authority; to require certain persons to make reports to the National Adult Safeguarding Authority in respect of adults at risk of abuse or harm in certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 2 February 2017
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Derelict Sites Act 1990 to increase the levy placed on derelict sites; to ensure the register of derelict sites compiled by a local authority is made publicly available on the local authority's website; to ensure protection for the rights of older homeowners who have moved into residential care and own a derelict site; to amend the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 to extend the definition of a "vacant site" to include sites below 0.05 hectares; to bring into operation the entering of vacant sites on local authority registers starting June 2017; to ensure the notification of owners of vacant sites of their entry on the register by 2017; to secure payment of the vacant levy by those on the register from 2017 and payment of arrears no later than 2018; to increase the vacant site levy; to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to secure the rights of tenants in buy-to-let properties; and to provide for related matters
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 15 June 2016
Bill entitled an Act to implement reforms proposed in the Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform and for that purpose to effect a range of reforms to the Seanad, to provide for the establishment of a Seanad Electoral Commission and to provide for related matters