Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of general schemes referred by her Department to an Oireachtas Committee for pre-legislative scrutiny from 1 January 2016 to date; the date each was referred; the date that the general scheme was published for the public to review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42946/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The following general schemes were referred by the Department of Education to an Oireachtas Committee for pre-legislative scrutiny (PLS) during the period in question:

• The Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill was published on 22 September 2023 and was referred to the relevant Committee for PLS on 25 September 2023.
• The General Scheme of an Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016 was published by Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton on 5 December 2016 was referred for PLS on the same date. The Bill was republished by the then Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD on 10 September 2019.