Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 October 2023
137. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of general schemes referred by his Department to an Oireachtas committee for pre-legislative scrutiny from 1 January 2016 to date; the date each was referred; the date that the general scheme was published for the public to review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42953/23]
View answerThe information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51.
A list of the general schemes referred by my Department to an Oireachtas Committee for pre-legislative scrutiny from 1 January 2016 to date along with the date each was referred and the date that the general scheme was published for the public to review can be found in the table below:
|
Title |
Date of Referral |
Date of Publication |
|
General Scheme of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016 |
12 October 2016[1] |
29 September 2016 |
|
General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 |
01 June 2017 |
01 June 2017[2] |
|
General Scheme of the Rates Bill 2017 (later named Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019) |
20 September 2017 |
General Scheme not published |
|
General Scheme of an Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017 |
06 October 2017 |
General Scheme not published |
|
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 |
10 May 2018 |
General Scheme not published |
|
General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018 [Published as Microbeads (Prohibition) Bill 2019 - No. 41 of 2019] |
06 December 2018 |
6 November 2018 |
|
General Scheme of the European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2018 |
07 December 2018 |
General Scheme not published |
|
General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill |
09 July 2019 |
22 October 2020 |
|
Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022 |
06 October 2020 |
30 August 2018 |
|
Marine Planning and Development Management Bill 2019 |
02 November 2020 |
17 December 2019 |
|
General Scheme of the Tailte Éireann Bill 2020 |
07 January 2021 |
6 January 2021 |
|
General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill 2020 |
08 January 2021 |
08 January 2021 |
|
General Scheme of Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Enacted and now Affordable Housing Act 2021) |
20 January 2021 |
20 January 2021 |
|
Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023 |
23 April 2021 |
22 April 2021 |
|
General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021 |
27 April 2021 |
27 April 2021 |
|
General Scheme of Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021 |
07 September 2021[3] |
13 July 2021 |
|
Revised General Scheme for the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill (now entitled the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill) |
15 December 2021 |
02 December 2021 |
|
General Scheme of Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019 (Judicial Review Reform) |
24 January 2022[4] |
10 December 2019 |
|
General Scheme of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022 |
29 July 2022 |
29 July 2022 |
|
Planning and development and Foreshore Amendment Bill 2022 |
10 Nov 2022 |
09 November 2022 |
|
General Scheme of Marine Protected Areas Bill 2022 (amended to 2023) |
13 January 2023 |
16 December 2022 |
|
General Scheme Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022 |
17 April 2023 |
13 April 2023 |
|
General Scheme of the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2023 |
21 September 2023 |
General Scheme not published |
[1] Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government met on 12 October 2016 to complete pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill.
[2] Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act published in July 2022
[3] Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage met on 7 September 2021 to complete pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill.
[4] Draft bill did not make it to pre-legislative scrutiny.
