Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Statutory Instrument No. 374 of 2024, European Union (invasive Alien Species) Regulations 2024, are retrospective to before the date of the statutory instrument or S.I.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49931/25]

Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South-West, Fianna Fail)
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The general principle is that legislation cannot be read to take effect retrospectively unless explicitly set out in the SI itself, and for very defined reasons. There are no such savers in Statutory Instrument No. 374 of 2024, European Union (invasive Alien Species) Regulations 2024.