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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 · 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.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 6 August 2024
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Disability Act 2005 and to provide for related matters.
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.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 28 May 2024
Bill entitled an Act to impose on the Health Service Executive certain special duties and powers in relation to the establishment of a specialised treatment service for the inpatient and outpatient treatment of children and adults of spinal scoliosis who are resident in the State and to confer certain duties and powers on the Minister for Health in relation to the service to be established and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 11 December 2023
Bill entitled an Act, in the public interest, to assist in maintaining the security of the electricity supply system in the State, and for that purpose to provide for the transfer to the western development commission of the Derrybrien wind farm; to effect the transfer of shares in Gort Windfarms Limited to the Western Development Commission; to provide for the removal of persons from certain offices positions or employment with Gort wind farms limited and provide for the appointment of persons to those offices or positions or that employment; to extinguish certain rights; to provide for the re-naming of Gort Wind Farms Limited; to provide for the transfer of the lessee’s interest in the lands at Derrybrien; to disapply certain provisions of the Companies Acts and other enactments in so far as they relate to Gort wind farms limited; to provide for the preservation of contracts; to provide for the making of regulations; and to provide for connected 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 January 2023
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Domestic Violence Act 2018 and, for that purpose, to provide protection in proceedings for the offence of coercive control against cross-examination in person by an accused person of a child witness or an adult witness who is the person in respect of whom the offence is alleged to have been committed and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 22 March 2022
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2021 to improve the level of protection afforded to Ireland’s built heritage, to prescribe the role of architectural conservation officers, to strengthen the protection afforded by architectural conservation area designation, to increase the enforcement mechanisms and penalties for breaches of planning legislation resulting in damage to built heritage and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 27 September 2021
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the extension of the Civil Registration Service to the registration of certain information regarding wills and for those purposes to revise the law relating to the Civil Registration Service and to provide for related matters.
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 · 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 · 6 December 2018
Bill entitled an Act to regulate legal but age-inappropriate content by way of takedown enforcement procedure. This procedure will operate where material falls within the definition of harmful material set out in this Act.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 17 October 2018
Act to provide for offences relating to perjury, subornation of perjury, the making of certain false statements, the fabrication of evidence and other related matters; for those purposes to amend certain enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 24 October 2017
Bill entitled an Act to reform the law in relation to the liability of unsuccessful parties to pay the costs of certain civil actions commenced by them challenging the validity of wills or the administration of intestate estates or making certain other claims in respect of the estates of deceased persons and to provide for related matters.
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 · 23 February 2017
Act to amend the Licensing Acts 1833 to 2011 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
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 May 1997
3 Mr. M. McDowell asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to media reports (details supplied) regarding the future of corporation tax; if his attention has further been drawn to emerging proposals at EU level to harmonise income and corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11854/97]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 May 1997
6 Mr. M. McDowell asked the Minister for Finance the progress, if any, which has been made by his Department in relation to the interdepartmental study on the levying of PRSI on maintenance payments from husband to wife; whether PRSI will apply to maintenance payments between divorced people, whether his Department has studied the possibility of compensating separated or divorced persons for such payments by means of a tax allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11667/97]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 April 1997
12 Mr. M. McDowell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry if he intends to recover the sums lost to the Exchequer and to the community funds in the matter of export refunds unduly paid on foot of four Bureau Veritas certificates proven by the Commission not to comply with the terms of Regulation 3665/87; and if not, the reason therefor. [10787/97]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 1997
7 Mr. M. McDowell asked the Minister for Justice the reason for the delay in processing an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; the reason that one year and three months after the arrival of this person in Ireland she is still awaiting a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9203/97]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 1997
26 Mr. M. McDowell asked the Minister for Justice when she expects to receive the consultant's report on the efficiency and effectiveness of the Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9194/97]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 1997
26 Mr. M. McDowell asked the Minister for Justice when she expects to receive the consultant's report on the efficiency and effectiveness of the Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9194/97]