Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 14 January 2015
185. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny procedure in the Oireachtas. [1814/15]
View answerFollowing changes to Standing Orders (agreed by the Dáil on 17 October 2013), Ministers are now required, except in exceptional circumstances, to bring the general scheme or draft heads of a Bill to a Select Committee for consideration.
Committees are empowered to consider the draft Heads of Bills but they are not required to do so it is the Committee's prerogative to decide on a case by case basis whether it wishes to engage in pre-legislative scrutiny on any particular Bill.
The table below provides details of the bills initiated by the Department of Finance on which the Committee held a pre-legislative scrutiny hearing.
|
Number of Bill |
Name of Bill |
Date initiated |
|
27 of 2014 |
Central Bank Bill 2014 |
7 April 2014 |
|
87 of 2014 |
European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014 |
26 September 2014 |
The Central Bank Bill 2014 underwent Pre-legislative Scrutiny on 26 March 2014. The European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014 underwent Pre-legislative Scrutiny on 24 September 2014.
A pre-legislative scrutiny hearing was also held on 3 December 2014 in relation to the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) legislation which received Government approval to publish on 8 January 2015.
