Bill

Purpose

Status

Family Leave Bill

To consolidate with amendments all family leave legislation.

Not indicated

Universities (Amendment) Bill

To ensure compliance with government guidelines on remuneration, allowances, pensions and staffing numbers in the university sector.

Heads of bill approved in October 2012; drafting underway

Higher Education (Reform) Bill

To modernise the legislative framework underpinning the governance and functions of the Higher Education Authority and the governance structures of the universities.

Heads of bill are currently being drafted

Technological Universities Bill 2015

To provide for the dissolution of certain institutes of technology and for the transfer of their functions, assets, liabilities and staff to new institutes of technology to be established; to provide for the establishment of technological universities; and to provide for the functions and governance of these universities.

Report Stage (Dáil)

Health & Wellbeing (Calorie Posting and Workplace Wellbeing) Bill

To require food premises to display calories on menus and to require all public sector employers to have and to report on a Health and Wellbeing policy.

Heads of bill are currently being drafted

Disability/Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill

To allow ratification of the UN Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities and to make further technical amendments to disability and equality legislation.

Heads of bill approved in February 2016; pre-legislative scrutiny to be undertaken shortly

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill

To contain provisions regarding the enrolment of pupils in schools and the requirement for schools to operate enrolment policies in a transparent fashion.

Expected publication date: June/July 2016

Garda Siochána (Compensation for Malicious Injuries) Bill

To provide a revised scheme for compensating Gardaí maliciously injured in their work.

Legal advice is being analysed

Paternity Bill

To provide for the introduction of 2 weeks paternity leave and associated social welfare benefit as from September 2016.

Expected publication date: June/July 2016

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Amendment) Bill

To amend the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 to address some issues that have arisen regarding the scope of responsibilities in relation to the recognition of awards and regulation of private and voluntary providers, to ensure adequate protection of enrolled learners where providers discontinue a programme, and to give greater authority to Institutes of Technology to award Level 9 qualifications.

Work is underway