Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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109. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [4243/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department initiated one bill in 2024, which was enacted as the Defence (Amendment) Act 2024 (Number 25 of 2024) and signed into law by President Higgins on 17 July 2024. A full account of the legislative process for the Act is available at the following link:

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