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| | Title of Bill | Purpose of Bill | Status of Bill |
| Agriculture Food and the Marine |
| 56 | Greyhound Industry (Amendment) Bill | To amend and extend the Greyhound Industry Act 1958 and the Greyhound Industry (Amendment) Act 1993 and related matters
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 57 | Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill | To amend and extend the Irish Horseracing Industry Act 1994, the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001 and related matters
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 58 | Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Amendment) Bill | To provide for a penalty points system for skippers of fishing vessels found to have infringed the Common Fisheries Policy
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht |
| 59 | Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill | To confirm the functions of the Minister and to facilitate a number of necessary technical amendments to existing legislation
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 60 | Heritage (Amendment) Bill | To amend the Heritage Act to give effect to actions arising from the Governments Reform Programme
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 61 | National Cultural Institutions (Amendment) Bill | To give effect to actions arising from the Governments Reform Programme in relation to certain National Cultural Institutions
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 62 | Official Languages (Amendment) Bill | To provide for amendments to the Official Languages Act 2003 arising from the review of that Act and from the decision to amalgamate the Office of An Coimisinéir Teanga with the Office of the Ombudsman
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Children and Youth Affairs |
| 63 | Adoption (Tracing and Information) Bill | To provide for an Information and Tracing service to applicants seeking information about adoptions, on a statutory basis
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 64 | Children (Amendment) Bill | To amalgamate the children detention schools in the interests of cost/administrative efficiencies and the public interest and to make some technical amendments to improve the workability of certain provisions
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Communications Energy and Natural Resources |
| 65 | Common Arrangements for Gas Bill | To amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 and to allow for arrangements to be put in place to facilitate an all-island gas market
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 66 | EirGrid Bill | To establish EirGrid in primary legislation
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 67 | Gas Regulation Bill | To address legislative amendments consequent to the sale of Bord Gais Energy
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 68 | Inland Fisheries (Modernisation & Consolidation) Bill | To modernise and consolidate existing provisions of legislation governing the inland fisheries sector
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 69 | Offshore Gas Storage Bill | To provide a regulatory regime for gas storage at offshore sites under the seabed, at sites where extraction activities are taking place, at depleted gas wells and at virgin sites
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Defence |
| 70 | Defence (Amendment) Bill | To amend the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006 to specify certain preparatory activities associated with the despatch of personnel overseas which can take place in advance of a United Nations Security Council Resolution
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 71 | Red Cross (Amendment) Bill | To repeal the Red Cross Act 1938 and put in place a new legal framework for the Irish Red Cross Society
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| Education and Skills |
| 72 | Education (Admission to School) Bill | To ensure the contents and process for enrolling by schools is more open, equitable and consistent
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 73 | Education (Amendment) Bill | To provide for amendments to the Teaching Council Act 2001 and the Student Support Act 2011
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 74 | Higher Education Reform Bill | To replace the HEA Act 1971 and amend the Universities Act and the IoT/DIT legislation as necessary to implement the higher education reform programme
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| Environment Community and Local Government |
| 75 | Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Bill | To underpin Government policy on climate change mitigation and adaptation
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 76 | Electoral (Amendment) (Referendum Spending and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill | To provide for the disclosure of expenditure and donations at a referendum campaign and to provide for the extension of the spending limit period that applies at Presidential, Dáil, European Parliament and local elections
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 77 | Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill | To provide for the application of fixed payment notices in solid fuel, waste and environmental policy legislation, and other related provisions
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 78 | Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 1) Bill | To strengthen the regulatory framework for social housing including the statutory underpinning for the new scheme of Housing Assistance Payments, the repossession of local authority dwellings and the entitlement of non-Irish nationals to be assessed for social housing support
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 79 | Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill | To further strengthen the regulatory framework for social housing, to provide for a new tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines, the right of household members to succeed to local authority tenancy of deceased household member and for the refinement of the HAP provisions
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 80 | Maritime Area Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill | To streamline the development consent process for the foreshore including, inter alia, the integration of certain parts of the foreshore consent process (under the Foreshore Act 1933) with the existing on-land planning system
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 81 | Noise Nuisance Bill | To extend and improve the powers available to Enforcement Authorities to prevent, reduce or abate noise nuisances, by allowing for on the spot fines and providing for mediation between neighbours
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 82 | Planning Bill | To provide for the implementation of planning recommendations in the report of the Mahon Tribunal and other matters
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 83 | Pyrite Levy Bill | To provide for the imposition of levies on the quarrying and insurance sectors to fund the remediation of certain pyrite damaged dwellings
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 84 | Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill | To ensure Irish legislation is compatible with the terms of the Convention for the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and Nuclear Facilities, so that Ireland may ratify this Convention
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 85 | Water Services Bill | To provide Irish Water with the necessary powers to deliver water services including through service level agreements with local authorities, to define the relationship between Irish Water, local authorities and the economic and environmental regulators, to set out the legal basis for domestic water charges, to extend the water regulatory powers of CER and to provide for related matters
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Finance |
| 86 | Central Bank (Consolidation) Bill | To consolidate the body of legislation relating to the Central Bank into a single statute
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 87 | Investment and Corporate Advisory Platform of the NTMA and amend the NTMA Act 1990 Bill | To establish the Investment and Corporate Advisory Platform of the NTMA on a statutory basis (including the shareholder executive and reorienting the National Pensions Reserve Fund into a strategic investment Fund) and amend the governance structures of the NTMA group
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 88 | Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (Joint Council of Europe/OECD Convention) Bill | To provide for appropriate provisions on the assistance of recovery of taxes and the service of documents to enable Revenue to deal with requests for assistance that may be received once the CoE/OECD Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters has been ratified. The bill will also ratify the EU/Swiss Fraud Agreement
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 89 | Open Ended Investment Company (SICAV) Bill | To provide for a bespoke corporate structure for collective investment schemes (funds) in accordance with the commitment set out in the IFSC strategy. The bill may assist the marketing of the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Health |
| 90 | Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill | To provide for the disestablishment of the Health Service Executive Vote and the funding of the HSE through the Vote of the Office of the Minister for Health and the establishment of a new statutory financial accountability framework for the HSE, to be commenced on 1 January 2014
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 91 | Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill | To provide for subsuming the Opticians Board into the Health and Social Care Professionals Council
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 92 | Human Tissue Bill | To meet the key recommendation of the Madden Report that no hospital post-mortem may be carried out and no tissue retained after post-mortem without consent. It will also address other matters relating to human tissue including consent arrangements for transplantation and research purposes
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 93 | Licensing of Healthcare Facilities Bill | To provide for a mandatory system of licensing for public and private healthcare facilities
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 94 | Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill | To amend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 in relation to a number of issues
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 95 | National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Establishment Order (Amendment) Bill | To provide for an amendment to the functions and membership of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 96 | Public Health (Alcohol) Bill | To provide for the inclusion of health advice/warnings on alcohol drink containers (bottles, cans) and on promotional materials including advice on the dangers of consuming alcohol during pregnancy, to provide a minimum price at which alcohol may be sold, to provide certain matters in relation to the advertising of alcohol and other measures in relation to alcohol
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation |
| 97 | Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill | To make necessary amendments to the European Communities (Statutory Audits) (Directive 2006/43/EC) Regulations 2010
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 98 | Data Sharing Bill | To underpin better risk-based enforcement, efficiency and cooperation in business regulation, by allowing specified public bodies to share specified data relating to businesses
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| Justice and Equality |
| 99 | Bail Bill | To consolidate and amend the bail laws
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 100 | Courts (Consolidation and Reform) Bill | To provide for implementation of recommendations of the Law Reform Commission
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 101 | Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) Bill | To strengthen the powers of CAB in relation to forfeiting the proceeds of crime
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 102 | Criminal Justice (Victims Rights) Bill | To strengthen the rights of victims of crime and their families and to give effect to a proposed EU Directive
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 103 | Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill | To implement recommendations in the Joint Oireachtas Committee Second Interim Report on the Constitutional Amendment on Children and further protect vulnerable persons against sexual exploitation and abuse
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 104 | Criminal Procedure Bill | To provide for the reform of pre-trial processes
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 105 | Family Law Bill | To make provision for pension adjustments in the context of separation agreements and certain other reforms in family law
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 106 | Family Relationships and Childrens Bill | To consolidate and reform the law relating to guardianship, custody of and access to children, to address issues of parentage including with regard to assisted reproduction and surrogacy and to make express provision for the use of DNA tests to determine parentage and to provide for connected matters
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 107 | Gambling Control Bill | To update and consolidate the law on betting and gambling
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 108 | Inspection of Places of Detention Bill | To give legislative effect to the OPCAT, strengthen Prisons Inspectorate, put Council of Europe inspection regime on a statutory footing and address matters relating to Prison Visiting Committees
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 109 | International Recovery of Child Support (Hague Convention) Bill | To implement the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and other forms of family maintenance
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 110 | Official Secrets Act (Amendment) Bill | To amend the Official Secrets Act to reflect the Programme for Government commitments
| Publication Expected - Not possible to indicate at this stage |
| 111 | Probation Service Bill | To provide a modern statement of the law governing the role and use of the Probation Services in the Criminal Justice System and to give effect to EU Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 112 | Trusts Bill | To reform and consolidate the general law relating to trustees so as to deal better with and protect trust assets
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Public Expenditure and Reform |
| 113 | Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill | To change management structure of the Oireachtas Service
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 114 | Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill | To implement changes to Party Leaders allowances and minor amendments to other allowances
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 115 | Regulation of Lobbying Bill | To provide for regulation of lobbying activity
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Social Protection |
| 116 | Civil Registration Bill | To amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 following a review of its operation, including registration of deaths of Irish persons who die abroad, validation of embassy marriages/civil partnerships, prevention of marriages of convenience
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 117 | Gender Recognition Bill | To provide for legal recognition of the acquired gender of transgender people
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| Taoiseach |
| 118 | National Economic and Social Development Office (Amendment) Bill | To abolish NESDO and place the NESC on a statutory basis
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 119 | Thirty Second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of the Seanad) Bill | To enable a referendum to be held on a proposal to abolish Seanad Éireann
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| Transport Tourism and Sport |
| 120 | Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill | To restructure the Irish Aviation Authority
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 121 | Maritime (International Conventions and Safety) Bill | To provide for the national implementation of certain International Maritime Conventions, the updating of existing statutes in respect of other conventions and provision of some maritime safety measures
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 122 | Road Transport Bill | To replace the existing Road Transport Acts with modern updated legislation and to take account of new policy requirements
| Publication Expected - 2014 |
| 123 | Shannon Aviation Services Centre Bill | To establish a new State-owned, commercial entity to inter alia, merge the Shannon Airport Authority and a restructured Shannon Development
| Publication Expected - 2013 |
| 124 | Sport Ireland Bill | To provide for the establishment of Sport Ireland, a new organisation to replace the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority
| Publication Expected - 2013 |