Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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49. To ask the Taoiseach 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. [4256/25]

Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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No legislation has been brought forward by the Department of the Taoiseach in the period specified.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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50. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2024; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4259/25]

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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51. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2023; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4260/25]

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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52. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2022; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4261/25]

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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53. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2021; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4262/25]

Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 50 to 53, inclusive together.

Article 25 of the Constitution provides that every Bill passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas, other than a Bill proposing to amend the Constitution, shall be submitted by the Taoiseach to the President for his signature and that the President shall sign such Bills no earlier than the fifth and no later than the seventh day after the day on which the Bill has been presented to him.

The Government may, with the concurrence of Seanad Éireann, request the President to sign a Bill earlier than the fifth day after the day on which the Bill has been presented to him.

The information sought by the Deputy providing the date on which Bills were submitted for signature in 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 is set out below. In all cases the Bills were signed in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution.