| Proposed Bill | Purpose as per Legislative Programme | Expected Publication Date |
| Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012 | To provide for the introduction of a permanent Risk Equalisation Scheme to be in place from 1 January 2013 | Before the end of 2012
Update: This Bill was published on 18 October 2012 |
| Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (Medical Indemnity) Bill | To make it mandatory for registration purposes for all medical practitioners engaged in clinical practice to have adequate medical indemnity insurance | Early 2013 |
| Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (Amendment) (No 2) Bill | To amend the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 in relation to a number of issues | 2013 |
| Health (Private Patient Charges) Bill | To publish new arrangements for charging all private patients in public hospitals to meet budgetary requirements | No indication as to when publication expected |
| Human Tissue Bill | To meet the key recommendation of the Madden Report that no hospital post-mortem may be carried out and no tissue retained without consent. It will also address other matters relating to human tissue including consent arrangements for living donors in regard to donating tissue for transplantation and research purposes | No indication as to when publication expected |
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