Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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1764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all sections of all Acts passed in the past ten years have been commenced; the number of sections that are outstanding; the number of Acts that have review periods; if the reviews have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63375/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has overseen the drafting and enactment of nine Bills in the past 10 years. Information requested on these enactments is set out in the table below. All of the Acts have been enacted to some extent and the extent of the commencement is indicated in the third column of the table.

Part 12 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 was subsequently repealed by the Oireachtas without having been commenced.

In accordance with Dáil Standing Orders, all of the Acts prepared by my Department would have required a post-enactment report to be published and laid in the Parliamentary Library twelve months after the enactment of the legislation. Two Acts have yet to complete this element of the process, as they were only enacted within the past twelve months: they are the Sea Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022  and the Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022.