Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 April 2022
151. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the transposition of EU Directive 2020/1828; the presumptive timetable his Department is working towards for the transposition of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17587/22]
View answerThe Government approved the priority drafting of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022 on 22 March 2022. The Bill will transpose the EU Directive on Representative Actions (2020/2018) into domestic law. The Directive is due to be transposed by 25 December 2022.
My department has published the general scheme of the Bill on its website. The primary purpose of the Bill is to permit a qualified entity to represent consumers in a representative action where a trader has infringed their consumer rights under one or more of the legislative provisions listed in the Schedule to the general scheme.
