Bills of the 33rd Dáil and 26th Seanad (private members’ bills)

Legislation proposed by private members since the 2020 election, and bills which lapsed at the election which were restored to the order paper. They are grouped here by the size of parties in the Dáil, followed by technical groups and cross-party bills.

Three private members’ bills have been enacted since the 2020 election:

• Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020; Brendan Howlin
• Children (Amendment) Act 2021; Michael McDowell, Rónán Mullen, David P. B. Norris, Victor Boyhan, Gerard P. Craughwell
• Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act 2021; Pádraig Ó Céidigh, Michael McDowell, Ian Marshall, Victor Boyhan

Bills proposed by government ministers are listed separately.

Fianna Fáil

• Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2021; Paul McAuliffe
• Planning and Development (Amendment) (№2) Bill 2021; Barry Cowen
• Clean Air (Smoky Coal Ban) Bill 2021; Timmy Dooley, Fiona O’Loughlin, Mary Fitzpatrick
• Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2021; Malcolm Byrne, Erin McGreehan, Mary Fitzpatrick
• Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021; Jim O’Callaghan
• Road Traffic (Amendment) (Electric Scooter Trials) Bill 2021; John Lahart
• Health Insurance (International Students) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Malcolm Byrne, Shane Cassells, Lisa Chambers
• Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021; Jackie Cahill
• Defence (Restriction on Use of Certain Titles) Bill 2021; Malcolm Byrne
• Children (Amendment) Bill 2021; Jim O’Callaghan, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor
• Free Provision of Period Products Bill 2021; Lorraine Clifford-Lee, Mary Fitzpatrick, Catherine Ardagh
• Road Traffic (All-Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motorcycle) (Amendment) Bill 2020; Paul McAuliffe, John Lahart
• Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2020; Fiona O’Loughlin, Robbie Gallagher, Lisa Chambers
• Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020; Malcolm Byrne, Pat Casey, Shane Cassells
• Criminal Justice (Public Order) (Amendment) Bill 2019; Robbie Gallagher, Diarmuid Wilson, Lorraine Clifford-Lee
• Farm Safety Agency Bill 2018; Paul Daly, Diarmuid Wilson, Robbie Gallagher
• Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017; James Lawless
• First Aid and Mental Health in Schools (Existing Teachers) Bill 2018; Robbie Gallagher, Keith Swanick, Diarmuid Wilson
• First Aid and Mental Health in Schools (Initial Teacher Training) Bill 2018; Robbie Gallagher, Keith Swanick, Diarmuid Wilson
• Life Saving Equipment Bill 2017; Keith Swanick, Robbie Gallagher, Diarmuid Wilson, Paul Daly
• Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015; Diarmuid Wilson

Sinn Féin

• Redundancy Payments (Lay off, Short Time and Calculation of Reckonable Service) Bill 2021; Louise O’Reilly
• Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021; Mairéad Farrell, Patricia Ryan
• Civil Legal Aid (Exclusion of Value of Free or Partly Free Board) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Lynn Boylan, Fintan Warfield, Paul Gavan, Niall Ó Donnghaile
• Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Claire Kerrane
• Proceeds of Crime (Investment in Disadvantaged Communities) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Mark Ward, Ruairí Ó Murchú
• Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021; Pearse Doherty
• Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021; Darren O’Rourke, Claire Kerrane, Réada Cronin
• Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021; Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Seán Crowe, Dessie Ellis, Chris Andrews, Mary Lou McDonald, Denise Mitchell
• Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Kathleen Funchion
• Rural Equality Bill 2021; Claire Kerrane
• Health (Parliamentary Oversight of Certain Instruments Relating to Covid-19) Bill 2021; Pa Daly, David Cullinane
• Criminal Justice (Public Order) (Quadbikes and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Paul Donnelly, Maurice Quinlivan, Mark Ward, Ruairí Ó Murchú, Darren O’Rourke, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Denise Mitchell, Seán Crowe, Dessie Ellis
• Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021; Chris Andrew, Violet-Anne Wynne
• Health (Amendment) (Dual Diagnosis: No Wrong Door) Bill 2021; Mark Ward, Thomas Gould
• Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021; Pearse Doherty
• Statistics (Decade of Centenaries) Bill 2020; Aengus Ó Snodaigh
• Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Carryover of Annual Leave) (Covid-19) Bill 2020; Louise O’Reilly
• Social Welfare Commission Bill 2020; Claire Kerrane
• Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Bill 2020; Eoin Ó Broin
• Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2020; Brian Stanley
• Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2020; Pearse Doherty, Mairéad Farrell
• Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020; Louise O’Reilly, Mary Lou McDonald
• Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Right to Disconnect) Bill 2020; Louise O’Reilly
• Planning and Development (Protect Social Housing) Bill 2020; Chris Andrews
• Homeless Prevention Bill 2020; Eoin Ó Broin
• Latent Defects Redress Bill 2020; Eoin Ó Broin
• Mental Health Parity of Esteem Bill 2020; Mark Ward
• River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020; Sorca Clarke, Violet-Anne Wynne, Martin Kenny, Claire Kerrane
• Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2020; Eoin Ó Broin
• Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020; Louise O’Reilly
• Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020; Eoin Ó Broin
• Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020; Eoin Ó Broin
• Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017; Brian Stanley
• Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017; Martin Kenny, Martin Ferris, Pearse Doherty

Fine Gael

• Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2021; Barry Ward
• National Lottery (Amendment) Bill 2021; Barry Ward, Micheál Carrigy, Emer Currie
• Taxi Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2021; Joe O’Reilly, Jerry Buttimer, Barry Ward
• Road Traffic (Amendment) (Personal Light Electric Vehicles) Bill 2021; Alan Farrell
• Criminal Procedure and Related Matters Bill 2021; Barry Ward, Martin Conway, Mary Seery Kearney
• Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
• State Airports (Shannon Group) (Amendment) Bill 2020; Martin Conway, Garret Ahearn, Aisling Dolan
• Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020; Colm Burke, Emer Higgins
• Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Bill 2017; Paddy Burke, John O’Mahony, Michelle Mulherin
• Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017; James Reilly

Labour

• Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021; Alan Kelly
• Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency in Charges) Bill 2021; Ged Nash
• Protection of Employment (Platform Workers and Bogus Self-Employment) Bill 2021; Marie Sherlock, Mark Wall, Rebecca Moynihan, Annie Hoey, Ivana Bacik
• Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021; Mark Wall, Marie Sherlock, Rebecca Moynihan, Annie Hoey, Ivana Bacik
• Labour Exploitation and Trafficking (Audit of Supply Chains) Bill 2021; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Ged Nash, Seán Sherlock
• National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021; Duncan Smith
• Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021; Ivana Bacik, Mark Wall, Marie Sherlock, Rebecca Moynihan, Annie Hoey
• Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2021; Ivana Bacik, Mark Wall, Marie Sherlock, Rebecca Moynihan, Annie Hoey
• Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021; Rebecca Moynihan, Marie Sherlock, Mark Wall, Annie Hoey, Ivana Bacik
• Local Government (Use of CCTV in Prosecution of Offences) Bill 2021; Mark Wall, Marie Sherlock, Rebecca Moynihan, Annie Hoey, Ivana Bacik
• Consumer Protection (Loyalty Penalty and Customer Complaints) Bill 2021; Ged Nash, Duncan Smith, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
• Principles of Social Welfare Bill 2021; Seán Sherlock
• Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021; Annie Hoey, Mark Wall, Marie Sherlock, Rebecca Moynihan, Ivana Bacik
• Derelict Sites (Amendment) Bill 2021; Seán Sherlock
• Period Products (Free Provision) Bill 2021; Rebecca Moynihan, Mark Wall, Marie Sherlock, Annie Hoey, Ivana Bacik
• Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020; Brendan Howlin
• Measuring Quality of Life in Ireland Bill 2020; Ged Nash
• Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020; Alan Kelly, Brendan Howlin, Ged Nash, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Seán Sherlock, Duncan Smith
• Regulation of Lobbying (Post-Term Employment as Lobbyist) Bill 2020; Ged Nash
• Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
• Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020; Alan Kelly
• Industrial Relations (Sectoral Employment Orders Confirmation) Bill 2020; Ged Nash, Duncan Smith, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
• Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018; Ivana Bacik, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Ged Nash, Kevin Humphreys
• Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020; Brendan Howlin
• Convictions for Certain Sexual Offences (Apology and Exoneration) Bill 2016; Ged Nash, Kevin Humphreys, Ivana Bacik, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Green Party

• Planning and Development (Solar Panels for Public Buildings, Schools, Homes and Other Premises) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Pauline O’Reilly, Vincent P. Martin, Róisín Garvey

Social Democrats

• Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2021; Jennifer Whitmore
• Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021; Cian O’Callaghan
• Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Developments) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Róisín Shortall

Solidarity–PBP

• Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021; Bríd Smith, Paul Murphy, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny
• Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021; Richard Boyd Barrett
• Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021; Mick Barry
• Employment Permits (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021; Bríd Smith, Mick Barry, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny, Paul Murphy
• Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; Bríd Smith, Paul Murphy, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny
• Residential Tenancies (Extension of Eviction Ban) Bill 2020; Paul Murphy, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny, Richard Boyd Barrett, Mick Barry
• Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Citizenship for Children) Bill 2020; Mick Barry
• Dying with Dignity Bill 2020; Gino Kenny, Bríd Smith, Paul Murphy, Mick Barry, Richard Boyd Barrett
• Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020; Richard Boyd Barrett, Paul Murphy, Mick Barry, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny
• Planning and Development (Climate Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2019; Bríd Smith, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny

Regional Group

• North-South Interconnector Review Group Bill 2021; Peadar Tóibín
• Dog Breeding Establishments (Amendment) Bill 2021; Peadar Tóibín, Seán Canney, Noel Grealish
• Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2021; Peadar Tóibín
• Hospital Parking Bill 2021; Peadar Tóibín, Cathal Berry
• Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2021; Denis Naughten, Peadar Tóibín, Matt Shanahan, Verona Murphy, Michael Lowry, Noel Grealish, Peter Fitzpatrick, Seán Canney, Cathal Berry
• Oireachtas Members (Economic Justice) (Covid-19) Bill 2021; Peadar Tóibín
• Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021; Peadar Tóibín, Verona Murphy, Seán Canney
• Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020; Peadar Tóibín
• Housing (Temporary Provisions regarding Short-term Lettings) Bill 2020; Peadar Tóibín
• Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020; Peadar Tóibín
• Ministers and Ministers of State (Successors) Bill 2020; Peadar Tóibín

Independent Group

• Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021; Thomas Pringle
• Adoption (Information) Bill 2021; Thomas Pringle, Catherine Connolly

Independent Senators

• Children (Amendment) Act 2021; Michael McDowell, Rónán Mullen, David P. B. Norris, Victor Boyhan, Gerard P. Craughwell
• Seanad Bill 2020; Michael McDowell, Alice-Mary Higgins, Gerard P. Craughwell
• National Screening Advisory Committee Bill 2020; David P. B. Norris, Gerard P. Craughwell, Victor Boyhan
• Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act 2021; Pádraig Ó Céidigh, Michael McDowell, Ian Marshall, Victor Boyhan

Civil Engagement Group

• Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021; Lynn Ruane, Eileen Flynn, Frances Black, Alice-Mary Higgins
• Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021; Alice-Mary Higgins, Eileen Flynn, Frances Black, Lynn Ruane
• Deportation Moratorium (Covid-19) Bill 2020; Alice-Mary Higgins, Lynn Ruane, Eileen Flynn, Frances Black
• Public Authorities and Utility Undertakings (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2019; Alice-Mary Higgins, Lynn Ruane, Colette Kelleher, John Dolan, Frances Black
• Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018; Lynn Ruane
• Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; Frances Black, Colette Kelleher, David P. B. Norris; Lynn Ruane, Alice-Mary Higgins, Grace O’Sullivan, John Dolan
• International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017; Colette Kelleher, Frances Black, Lynn Ruane, Alice-Mary Higgins, Grace O’Sullivan, John Dolan

Cross-party

• Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021; Carol Nolan, Peadar Tóibín, Peter Fitzpatrick, Noel Grealish, Éamon Ó Cuív, Seán Canney, Michael Collins, Richard O’Donoghue, Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae, Mattie McGrath
• Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021; Eoin Ó Broin, Rose Conway-Walsh, Cian O’Callaghan, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Bríd Smith, Joan Collins
• Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Hare Coursing) Bill 2020; Paul Murphy, Mick Barry, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny, Bríd Smith, Catherine Connolly, Joan Collins
• Community Participation (Disability) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019; John Dolan, Alice-Mary Higgins, Máire Devine, Victor Boyhan, Ivana Bacik, Frances Black, Lynn Ruane, Colette Kelleher
• Electoral (Civil Society Freedom) (Amendment) Bill 2019; Lynn Ruane, Fintan Warfield, Victor Boyhan, David P. B. Norris, Ivana Bacik, Grace O’Sullivan, Colette Kelleher, Frances Black, John Dolan, Alice-Mary Higgins
• Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018; Fintan Warfield, Catherine Ardagh, Lynn Ruane, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Niall Ó Donnghaile, Grace O’Sullivan, David P. B. Norris, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Colette Kelleher, Kevin Humphreys, Alice-Mary Higgins, Paul Gavan, Joan Freeman, Máire Devine, Gerard P. Craughwell, Rose Conway-Walsh, Jerry Buttimer, Victor Boyhan, Frances Black, Ivana Bacik
• Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017; Ivana Bacik, Kevin Humphreys, Joan Freeman, Brian Ó Domhnaill, Michael McDowell, John Dolan, Grace O’Sullivan, Alice-Mary Higgins, Lynn Ruane, Ged Nash, Gerard P. Craughwell, David P. B. Norris, Frances Black, Billy Lawless, Victor Boyhan, Colette Kelleher, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
• Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017; Colette Kelleher, John Dolan, Alice-Mary Higgins, Lynn Ruane, Lorraine Clifford-Lee, Jerry Buttimer, Ivana Bacik, Frances Black, Victor Boyhan, Marie-Louise O’Donnell
• Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017; Fintan Warfield, Grace O’Sullivan, David P. B. Norris
• Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016; Fintan Warfield, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Lynn Ruane