# legislation - Wednesday 12 January, 2022
# Adoption
# Adoption
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman reacts to the new Birth Information and Tracing Bill launched today.
# New Law
# New Law
The long-awaited Birth Information and Tracing Bill will be published today.
# legislation - Monday 8 November, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
Shops that sell cigarettes to minors are to be banned for up to a month, under new legislation.
# legislation - Friday 30 July, 2021
# Legislation
# Legislation
Michael D Higgins says he received nine Bills in one day.
# legislation - Tuesday 29 June, 2021
# Cannabis
# Cannabis
Pro-legalisation campaigners said the Supreme Court ruling left cannabis users facing many uncertainties.
# legislation - Monday 14 June, 2021
# Mobile Phones
# Mobile Phones
The overhaul of how gardaí operate includes a new power for gardaí to request passwords or encryption keys.
# legislation - Tuesday 4 May, 2021
# Housing
# Housing
Aspects of the bill, including its shared equity scheme for first-time buyers, have been criticised.
# legislation - Tuesday 20 April, 2021
# Private Security
# Private Security
The Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2021 has been approved by Cabinet.
# legislation - Wednesday 14 April, 2021
# Burials Bill
Legislation being debated today would allow excavations, exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby homes Catherine Corless says as many sites as possible must be included "The babies should have been taken out of there in 2017 when they were found," she says of Tuam
# legislation - Friday 5 March, 2021
# Legislation
# Legislation
The Bill has passed through all stages of the Seanad.
# legislation - Tuesday 26 January, 2021
# Limerick
# Limerick
Limerick is the first city that will have a directly-elected mayor after locals voted for the move in 2019.
# legislation - Monday 26 October, 2020
# Legislation
# Legislation
President Michael D Higgins yesterday signed the Bill into law.
# Legislation
# Legislation
The President pointed out that his decision to sign the legislation “leaves it open to any citizens to challenge the provisions of the bill”.
# legislation - Friday 23 October, 2020
# Database
# Database
The minister has defended the legislation but said he regrets poorly communicating what it intends to do.
# Sealed
# Sealed
The Bill allows the transfer of a database of 60,000 records compiled by the commission to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
# legislation - Monday 7 September, 2020
# Brexit
# Brexit
Political leaders have described the reported plans as a “treacherous betrayal” by “charlatans”.
# legislation - Friday 28 August, 2020
# House Parties
# House Parties
The government want gardaí to be given powers to interrupt and prevent house parties and social gatherings in breach of the guidelines.
# legislation - Wednesday 19 August, 2020
# Legislation
# Legislation
Gardaí will be given greater ability to police new public health measures.
# legislation - Tuesday 28 July, 2020
# Pay Day
# Pay Day
Martin will be paid almost €1,500 more than Varadkar was in the last government, despite a 10% cut to the official level of pay.
# legislation - Wednesday 24 June, 2020
# Law
# Law
Eleven seats in the Seanad are vacant as a new Taoiseach has not yet been elected.
# legislation - Tuesday 12 May, 2020
# Regulation
# Regulation
The minister said he would like this requirement backed up by the law.
# legislation - Thursday 9 April, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
Rationing of critical care during any coronavirus surge must not happen at the expense of the most vulnerable, writes Clonan.
# legislation - Thursday 19 March, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The government included a sunset clause for the legislation to be review in November after concerns were raised by TDs.
# legislation - Saturday 18 January, 2020
# Waiting Staff
# Waiting Staff
The claim was criticised by Sinn Féin who called it “false and misleading”.
# legislation - Friday 20 December, 2019
# Let's Get Together
# Let's Get Together
Leo Varadkar says he will reply to the Fianna Fail leader’s letter next week.
# legislation - Thursday 19 December, 2019
# General Election
# General Election
Martin says a legislative priority programme must be agreed for after Christmas.
# legislation - Tuesday 5 November, 2019
# Transparency
# Transparency
The move comes amid an international debate about how social media platforms handle political ads.
# legislation - Thursday 26 September, 2019
# Exclusion Zones
# Exclusion Zones
In July, Minister Simon Harris said exclusion zones outside hospitals and GP surgeries will be a “major priority”.
# legislation - Wednesday 5 June, 2019
# Law Reform
# Law Reform
Reviews are also set to be carried out in areas of law concerning hotel liability and privacy in the digital era.
# legislation - Monday 13 May, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
The Law Reform Commission says stalking should be defined as a crime and the introduction of stalking laws in the UK resulted in an increase in prosecutions, writes Catherine O’Sullivan.
# legislation - Tuesday 7 May, 2019
# Cannabis
# Cannabis
This will make it significantly less of a grey area in Irish law – and it could also herald the start of the Irish cannabis industry.
# legislation - Tuesday 9 April, 2019
# Pay Equality
# Pay Equality
The EU Commission recommended that member states introduce the measures five years ago.
# Licencing
# Licencing
Such operators will in future be subject to training standards and a licencing regime, if the legislation is amended.
# legislation - Wednesday 20 March, 2019
# Legislation
# Legislation
Measures first mooted in the Gambling Control Bill (2013) are finally set to be enacted by government.
# legislation - Friday 1 February, 2019
# Abortion
# Abortion
Health Minister Simon Harris has said he is very concerned about the alleged case, and has launched an investigation.
# legislation - Thursday 31 January, 2019
# Great Irish Sell Off
# Great Irish Sell Off
The Bill puts into law what already exists at the moment as a voluntary Central Bank code
# legislation - Friday 25 January, 2019
# Concert Tickets
# Concert Tickets
The proposed legislation would ban the above-face-value resale of tickets for sporting and entertainment events.
# legislation - Friday 11 January, 2019
# Parenting
# Parenting
The changes will resolve a number of difficulties in the registration of donor assisted births.
# legislation - Monday 31 December, 2018
# Microbeads
# Microbeads
Unnecessary use of the plastics will be completely banned in the public sector.
# legislation - Saturday 29 December, 2018
# Forensics
# Forensics
The government must first pass legislation allowing it to carry out excavations.
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