Bill |
Purpose |
Status |
Minerals Development Bill 2015 |
To modernise and consolidate all mineral development legislation. |
Report Stage (Seanad) |
Geothermal Energy Development Bill |
To provide a legislative framework for the vesting, licensing and regulation of the development of geothermal energy. |
Drafting is ongoing |
EirGrid Bill |
To establish EirGrid in primary legislation. |
Initial preparatory work is underway |
Energy Bill 2016 |
To change the name of the Commission for Energy Regulation to the Commission for Regulation of Utilities and to give the Commission powers to carry out investigations and impose administrative sanctions. In addition, provisions are included in relation to common rules for the internal market in electricity and other EU law provisions. |
Second Stage (Dáil) |