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Energy Sector: Spring 2013 Legislative Programme

 

Proposed Bill 

 

Purpose as per Legislative Programme 

 

Expected Publication Date

Minerals Development Bill

 

To modernise and consolidate all mineral development legislation

 

In the Spring session

 

Gas Regulation Bill

 

To address legislative amendments consequent to the sale of Bord Gáis Energy

 

2013

 

Common Arrangements for Gas Bill

 

To amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 and to allow for arrangements to be put in place to facilitate an all-island gas market

 

2013

 

Offshore Gas Storage Bill

 

To provide a regulatory regime for gas storage at offshore sites under the seabed, at sites where extraction activities are taking place, at depleted gas wells and at virgin sites

 

2013

 

EirGrid Bill To establish EirGrid in primary legislation 2013

Geothermal Energy Development Bill

 

To provide a legislative framework for the vesting, licensing and regulation of the development of geothermal energy

 

Late 2013

 

 

Your William Fry contact: Fergus Devine