Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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651. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the name and number of Bills in preparation or published by her Department since May 2016; the stage each Bill is at in the Houses of the Oireachtas; the number of Bills from her Department signed into law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40138/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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My Department has a total of 9 Bills listed in the Government legislation programme for the current Dáil Session and they are as follows:

- Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill

- Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill

- Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill

- Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) (Miscellaneous Intellectual Property) Bill

- Amendment of the Constitution (Unified Patent Court) Bill

- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill

- Statutory Audits Bill

- Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) Bill

- Legislation to improve protections for workers on insecure, low hour contracts

My Department has published two Bills since the Government came to Office on 6 May 2016. The Companies (Accounting) Bill was published on 5August 2016 and it completed Committee Stage in the Dáil on 22 November 2016. The Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill was published on 4 November and the Bill is currently at Committee stage in the Seanad. I intend publishing the Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016 before the end of 2016.

No Bills from my Department have been signed into law since 6 May 2016.