Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 June 2015
260. 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. [23639/15]
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 following table 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 |
Date of Pre-legislative Scrutiny |
|
27 of 2014 |
Central Bank Bill 2014 |
7 April 2014 |
26 March 2014 |
|
87 of 2014 |
European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014 |
26 September 2014 |
24 September 2014 |
|
1 of 2015 |
Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015 |
12 January 2015 |
3 December 2014 |
A pre-legislative scrutiny hearing was also held on 27 January 2015 in relation to the Draft General Scheme of the Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill. That legislation has not yet been published.
