Written answers

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Legislative Measures

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will list, in tabular form, all Bills introduced by his Department between 2009 and to date in 2014; if each of these Bills was drafted by civil servants, or a legislative drafter with a public sector short-term contract, or where the Bill was outsourced to a legislative drafter-legal professional; and if he will provide in an additional tabular form a list of the professional fees attributable to the outsourcing of legislative drafting between 2009 and to date including the invoice amount and the name of the company or person who provided the service. [42441/14]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The following is the list of all Bills introduced by my Department between 2009 and 31stOctober 2014

Bills Published 1stJanuary 2009 – 31stDecember 2009

Title of BillBill drafted by Civil Servant/Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009Bill drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel


Bills Published 1stJanuary 2010 – 31stDecember 2010
Title of BillBill drafted by Civil Servant/Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Competition (Amendment) Bill 2010Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Chemicals (Amendment) Bill 2010Bill drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel


Bills Published 1stJanuary 2011 – 31stDecember 2011
Title of BillBill drafted by Civil Servant/Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011 Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011Bill drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel


Bills Published 1stJanuary 2012 – 31stDecember 2012
Title of BillBill drafted by Civil Servant/Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Companies Bill 2012Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Credit Guarantee Bill 2012Bill drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012Bill drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Bill 2012 (Seanad) (Number 113 of 2012)Bill drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Patents (Amendment) Act 2012Drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel


Bills Published 1stJanuary 2013 – 31stDecember 2013
Title of BillBill drafted by Civil Servant/Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013Drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) BillDrafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
European Union (Access of the Republic of Croatia) (Access to the Labour Market Bill 2013Drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel


Bills Published 1stJanuary 2014 – 31stOctober 2014
Title of BillBill drafted by Civil Servant/Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014Drafted by Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013Bill drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014Drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary Counsel


Externally drafted Bills Published 1stJanuary 2014 – 31stOctober 2014
Title of BillBill drafted by Civil Servant or legislative drafter Bill outsourced to legislative drafter/legal professional Professional fees attributable to outsourcing of legislative drafting, including invoice amountName of Person/

Company providing the service
Workplace Relations Bill 2014Drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary CounselFees paid in respect of drafting of Heads of Bill and legal advice associated therewith€108,161

Paid in 2012

€59,746

Paid in 2013
A & L Goodbody Solicitors
Drafted by Civil Servants in consultation with Office of the Parliamentary CounselFees paid in respect of legal advice including the preparation (in conjunction with Departmental personnel) of comprehensive written responses on legal and drafting issues raised by OPC/AG in the course of drafting the Workplace Relations bill 2014€27, 337

Paid in 2014
Alan Haugh B.L.

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