Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4255/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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My Department initiated five Bills in 2024, all of which have been enacted. Details of these Bills are set out below and with additional requested material in the following table.

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024 (No. 6 of 2024)

This Act amended the Social Welfare Acts to exclude assessment of child maintenance payments from social welfare means tests and to repeal the provisions relating to liable relatives regarding child maintenance payments and to make provision for persons to whom permission to reside in the State is given under section 60 (6) of the International Protection Act 2015.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Act 2024 (No. 20 of 2024)

This Act provided for the establishment of a body to be known as An tÚdarás Náisiúnta um Uathrollú Coigiltis Scoir; to provide for that body to establish, maintain and administer an automatic enrolment retirement savings system; to provide for payment of contributions by participants, their employers and the State and the investment of contributions and the payment of retirement savings out of participants’ 'My future fund' accounts.

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration of births and deaths) Act 2024 (No. 27 of 2024)

This Act amended the Civil Registration Act 2004 to make provision for the registration online of births and the notification and registration online of death as well as to make certain other amendments to that Act including the establishment and maintenance of a record of stillbirths.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024 (No. 24 of 2024)

This Act provided for PRSI increases as well as a new benefit to be known as jobseeker’s pay-related benefit.

Social Welfare Act 2024 (No. 36 of 2024)

This Act provided for Budget increases.

Bills Initiated by Minister for Social Protection in 2024