Bill· Public2026/77current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 2 July 2026
Bill entitled an Act, in the interest of child protection, to require that access to pornographic content on the internet be subject to an age-verification requirement and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2025/19current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 April 2025
Bill entitled an Act to regulate the sale, advertisement or promotion of the use of stimulant drinks to children, to prohibit the sale of stimulant drinks to persons under 18 years of age; to provide for health warnings on drink labelling to the general public on the effect to a person’s health of the excessive consumption or use of stimulant drink products and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2024/85current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 3 October 2024
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to include in the classes of development requiring an environmental impact assessment report certain installations of stationary battery energy storage systems, and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2024/57lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 1 July 2024
Bill entitled an Act, in the interest of child protection, to require that access to pornographic material on the internet be subject to an age-verification requirement and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2024/19current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 26 February 2024
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Control of Dogs Act 1986, and for that purpose, to provide for dog control notices, to provide for notices relating to the exclusion of dogs from certain premises, to amend the Control of Dogs (Dog Licensing Database) Regulations 2019 so as to provide for the mandatory maintenance of a dog licensing database, to amend the Local Government Act 2001 to provide for public places where dogs can be off leash and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2021/149current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 November 2021
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 and the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1992 to 2011 to make exceptional provision for peat extraction for the purpose of horticulture for a temporary period in the public interest in order to mitigate the adverse consequences resulting, or likely to result from an interruption to supply and to provide for a just transition.
Bill· Public2019/17current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 27 February 2019
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a mandatory prison sentence in respect of an assault on a member of the emergency services; to provide for the introduction of an offence of ramming an emergency services vehicle and to provide for a mandatory prison sentence in respect of such an offence, and for that purpose to amend the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2018/115current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 October 2018
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as an Ghníomhaireacht um Shábháilteacht Feirme or in the English language as the Farm Safety Agency; to define its functions and its role within the Health and Safety Authority and for those purposes to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005; and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2018/48current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 3 May 2018
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the introduction of a requirement that all existing staff in schools be trained in occupational first aid response and mental health first aid; to require that training in occupational first aid response and mental health first aid forms part of a continuing professional development requirement for school staff; to provide for the approval of first aid response courses and mental health first aid courses; and to provide for related matters
Bill· Public2018/44current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 2 May 2018
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the introduction of a requirement that initial teacher training encompasses training in occupational first aid response and mental health first aid; and to provide for related matters
Bill· Public2018/41lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 1 May 2018
Bill entitled an Act to provide for better replies and response times from local authority officials to local representative queries
Bill· Public2017/152lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 12 December 2017
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Courts Service Act 1998 to prohibit investments by the Courts Service in tobacco related companies and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2017/126lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 9 November 2017
Bill entitled an Act to require all landlords, including publicly funded organisations and other commercial organisations to ensure an annual service and maintenance is carried out on all heat producing carbon monoxide emitting appliances in each tenanted property; and require records to be kept to verify that work was carried out by an authorised person or company; and to provide for related matters
Bill· Public2017/92current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 5 July 2017
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a specific offence of interfering with Life Saving Equipment and to provide for related matters.
Bill· Public2017/60lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 10 May 2017
Bill entitled an Act to recognise the meeting of the First Dáil and the Declaration of Independence made on 21 January 1919 and to provide for a "Declaration of Independence Day" to be held on 21 January annually and to provide for related matters
Bill· Public2016/62lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 12 July 2016
Bill entitled an Act to restore the national anthem copyright protection to the National Anthem of the State and for that purpose to amend the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 and to provide for related matters
Bill· Public2015/105current
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 19 November 2015
Bill entitled an Act to expand the electorate of Seanad Éireann bye elections to fill casual vacancies occurring amongst those members of Seanad Éireann to members of local authorities and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with such elections
Bill· Public2015/7lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 4 February 2015
Bill entitled an Act to require public bodies to have regard to economic, social and environmental well-being in connection with public services contracts; and for related matters
Bill· Public2014/76lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 15 July 2014
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Planning and Deveopment Act 2000; and to provide for related matters
Bill· Public2013/78lapsed
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 3 July 2013
Bill entitled an Act to amend Part II of the Maternity Protection Acts 1994 and 2004 to provide for both maternity and paternity leave for parents of a new born child and to provide for related matters