Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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260. To ask 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]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Following 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.