Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of general schemes referred by his 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [42944/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Since my Department was established in June 2020, it has prepared eight general schemes which have been referred to Oireachtas Committees for pre-legislative scrutiny. The table below sets out the information requested:

I note that while the General Scheme of the Parent’s Leave and Benefit (Amendment) Bill 2020 was referred to the Oireachtas on 8 January 2021, its provisions were incorporated into the Family Leave Bill 2021 and subsequently renamed the Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021.