| | Title of Bill | Purpose of Bill |
| Agriculture Food and the Marine |
| 1 | Forestry Bill | To reform and update the legislative framework relating to forestry in order to support the development of a modern forestry sector, which enshrines the principles of sustainable forest management and protection of the environment
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| Children and Youth Affairs |
| 2 | Child and Family Support Agency Bill | To establish a child and family support agency for the delivery of child welfare and protection services
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| 3 | Children First Bill | To implement the Programme for Government commitment related to 'Children First'
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| Communications Energy and Natural Resources |
| 4 | Minerals Development Bill | To modernise and consolidate all mineral development legislation
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| Environment Community and Local Government |
| 5 | Electoral (Amendment) Bill | To amend the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 for the purpose of transposing directive 2013/1/EU which amends the provision in directive 93/109/EC on arrangements for EU citizens exercising their right to stand as a candidate in European Parliament elections in a Member State of which they are not nationals but in which they are residing, and to provide for other amendments to the Electoral Acts relating to (i) the date for additions to the postal voters register supplement list (ii) the circulation of Referendum Bills to post offices (iii) the register of electors in Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford and (iv) the reivew of European Parliament constituencies
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| 6 | Housing (Amendment) Bill | To amend section 31 (rent schemes and charges) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009
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| 7 | Local Government Bill | To provide for a range of reforms across local government including structures (mergers, sub-county and regional reconfiguration), functions, funding, operational arrangements and other related and consequential matters
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| Finance |
| 8 | Betting (Amendment) Bill | To ensure a fair and equal treatment of all bookmakers and betting exchanges in terms of taxation and licensing regardless of the platform used, by bringing into the licensing and taxation regime all remote bookmakers and betting intermediaries. The bill will amend the 1931 Betting Act
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| Health |
| 9 | Health (Amendment) Bill | To clarify and update a number of issues that have been identified over time with specific provisions of the Health Act 1970, to provide for measures arising from Budget 2013 in regard to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme, to provide for an updated framework for charging all private in-patients in public hospitals to meet budgetary requirements and to provide for the extending of a publicly funded GP service without fees
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| 10 | Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (Medical Indemnity Insurance) Bill | To make it mandatory for registration purposes for all medical practitioners engaged in clinical practice to have adequate medical indemnity insurance
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| 11 | Protection of Maternal Life Bill | To implement the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B and C v Ireland by way of legislation with regulations, within the parameters of the Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court in the X case, and to make appropriate amendments to the criminal law in this area
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| Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation |
| 12 | Consumer and Competition Bill | To amalgamate the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority and to give effect to other changes to competition and consumer law including making provision for a statutory code of conduct for the grocery goods sector and giving effect to the recommendations of the Advisory Group on Media Mergers
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| 13 | County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill | To dissolve the existing CEB structure and transfer their functions to Enterprise Ireland
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| 14 | Employment Permits Bill | To consolidate existing legislation, to take account of evolving jurisprudence and to cater for future accessions to the EU
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| 15 | Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill | To introduce a number of regulatory improvements for co-operative societies and to make certain other changes
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| 16 | Workplace Relations Bill | To provide for reform of statutory Workplace Relations Bodies
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| Justice and Equality |
| 17 | Assisted Decision-making (Capacity) Bill | To reform the law on mental capacity, taking into account the Law Reform Commission's Report on Vulnerable Adults and the law
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| 18 | Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill | To provide for the establishment of a DNA database and related matters
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| 19 | Fines (Amendment) Bill | To amend the Fines Act 2010 to provide for the introduction of attachment of earnings and for a number of reforms designed to make it easier to pay fines and to ensure that unpaid fines are recovered to the greatest extent possible
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| 20 | Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill | To merge the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority, the bill will also make amendments to other human rights and equality legislation to give effect to recent judgments of the European Court of Justice respectively
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| Public Expenditure and Reform |
| 21 | Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill | To amend the Freedom of Information legislation in line with the Programme for Government commitments
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| 22 | Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privilege and Procedures) Bill | To provide a statutory framework for Oireachtas Inquiries
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| 23 | Protected Disclosure in the Public Interest Bill | To provide protection against reprisals and victimisation and redress for workers who disclose information regarding serious wrongdoing in the workplace.
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| 24 | Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill | To remove barriers to mobility and redeployment from statutory recruitment and appointment procedures for posts in the Civil and Public Service and to address other issues that arise on changing employer
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| Social Protection |
| 25 | Social Welfare and Pensions Bill | To provide for amendments to the social welfare code arising from Budget 2013 and from policy, administrative, operational and control matters. It will also amend the Pensions Act 1990 to change the current rules for the distribution of assets in the wind-up of defined benefit pension schemes and to provide for the restructuring of the Pensions Board and a number of other miscellaneous amendments.
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| Transport Tourism and Sport |
| 26 | Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill | To amend and restate the law relating to the registration of vessels
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| 27 | Road Traffic Bill | To provide for road traffic measures including driver licensing, penalty points and impairment testing
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