Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Companies Bill will come before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7172/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Companies Bill 2012 was published on the 21 December 2012 and represents the largest substantive Bill in the history of the State. The Bill consolidates the existing 16 Companies Acts, which date from 1963 to 2012, into one Act and it also introduces a number of reforms, which are designed to make it easier to operate a company in Ireland. Set out across 25 Parts, the Bill contains 1,429 sections and 17 Schedules.

Accommodation by the Houses of the Oireachtas of a Bill of the size and complexity of the Companies Bill presents very significant logistical challenges, and consideration is being given as to how this might most effectively be expedited.