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| | Title of Bill | Purpose of Bill | Status of Bill |
| Agriculture Fisheries and the Marine |
| 27 | 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
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht |
| 28 | Monuments Bill | To consolidate, update and improve the legislative code governing the protection and regulation of the national archaeological heritage
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| Communications Energy and Natural Resources |
| 29 | Geothermal Energy Development Bill | To provide a legislative framework for the vesting, licensing and regulation of the development of geothermal energy
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| 30 | Minerals Development Bill | To modernise and consolidate all mineral development legislation
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| Defence |
| 31 | Defence (Amendment) (Discipline) Bill | To amend Part V of the Defence Act 1954 and certain other provisions of the Act
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| Education and Skills |
| 32 | Education and Training Boards Bill | To provide for a revised configuration of the VECs system which will be reduced from 33 to 16. The bill will repeal all existing VEC Acts, update functions and powers and modernise the regulatory framework for this sector
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| Environment Community and Local Government |
| 33 | Environmental Liability Bill | To effect full transposition of the Environmental Liability Directive including some of the discretionary provisions therein
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| 34 | Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill | To reduce delays in the Private Residential Tenancies Board by streamlining and simplifying the Residential Tenancies Acts, to bring tenancies in the voluntary and cooperative housing sector within the remit of the Residential Tenancies Acts and to amalgamate the PRTB and the Rent Tribunal
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| Finance |
| 35 | Customs Bill | To consolidate and modernise national legislation relating to the administration of Customs by a single piece of legislation
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| Health |
| 36 | Health (Pricing and Supply of Medicines) Bill | To empower the Minister to introduce a system of Reference Pricing and Generic Substitution for drugs prescribed under the GMS and community drug schemes
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| 37 | Health Information Bill | To provide a legislative framework for the better governance of health information so as to enhance individual patient care and safety and achieve wider health service goals and to provide for a streamlined structure for multi site health research ethics approval
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| 38 | Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill | To introduce a number of measures to regulate the use of sunbeds including a prohibition of their use by those under 18 years of age
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation |
| 39 | Companies Bill | To bring greater clarification and simplification to the companies code and to modernise Irish company law through the consolidation of the existing 15 Company Law Acts, other regulations and case law.
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| 40 | 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
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| 41 | Industrial and Provident Societies and Friendly Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill | To introduce a number of regulatory improvements for co-operative societies and to make certain other changes
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| 42 | Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill | To amend the Trade Marks Act 1996 to allow Ireland to accede to the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| Justice and Equality |
| 43 | Criminal Justice (Cybercrime) Bill | To enable ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime and the transposition of the EU Framework Decision on attacks against Information Systems
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 44 | Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill | To provide for the establishment of a DNA database and related matters
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| 45 | Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Bill | To provide for amendment of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| 46 | Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill | To provide for a range of amendments to earlier legislation
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| 47 | Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill | To give effect to a number of EU Framework Decisions
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| 48 | Explosives Bill | To repeal the Explosives Act 1875 and replace it with a modern statutory framework for the control of the manufacture, storage, importation and supply of explosives
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |
| 49 | Judicial Council Bill | To provide effective remedies for complaints about judicial misbehaviour including lay participation in the investigation of complaints
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| 50 | Landlord and Tenant Bill | To reform and consolidate the general law on landlords and tenants
| Publication Expected - Late 2012 |
| 51 | Sale of Alcohol Bill | To codify the law relating to the sale and consumption of alcohol
| Publication Expected - Mid 2012 |