The Final 25

Whether they make it or not, this is what the government say will come before the Dail before the end of Term. 25 bills covering some huge and some not so huge areas of legislative importance.

The big question is with FF sitting pretty in the polls, will Bertie feel that maybe waiting around much longer isn't in his interests. He's always said Summer and he has gone full term each time, but if he got another bounce from the Peace Process and in the face of a possible Tribunal appearance who would blame him for an early jump.

Anyhoo heres the list.


Arts Sport and Tourism
1
Sports Council (Amendment) Bill
To provide the granting of powers to the Irish Sports Council to establish subsidiary companies. This power is required to give effect to decisions by the Government to establish an Institute of Sport, and to restructure the National Coaching and Training Centre as Coaching Ireland
Communications Marine and Natural Resources

2
Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill
To provide for the creation of indictable offences for breaches of enforcement measures imposed by the Commission for Communications Regulation, to strengthen ComReg's powers of enforcement and investigation, to provide for regulation of the IEDR and to provide for the establishment of an emergency call answering service
Community Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

3
Charities Bill
To regulate charities, so as to ensure accountability and to protect against abuse of charitable status and fraud
Defence

4
Curragh of Kildare Bill
To provide for the establishment of a statutory body to manage the Curragh, with the exception of the military establishment at the Defence Forces Training Centre, and to update the existing Curragh of Kildare Acts
Education and Science

5
Student Support Bill
To place all student support schemes on a statutory footing, to designate VECs as awarding authorities, to provide for a system of appeals and penalties for fraudulent applications for grants and to repeal the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts 1968 to 1992
Enterprise Trade and Employment

6
Consumer Protection Bill
To establish the new National Consumer Agency, to transpose the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and to update and modernise the current framework of consumer law

7
Control of Exports Bill
To update Ireland's export control legislation in the area of strategic export controls in line with recommendations of the 2004 Forfás review of Ireland's export controls system

8
Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies) Bill
To address cases of collective redundancies where specific situations apply requiring the establishment of a new body, the Redundancy Panel
Environment Heritage and Local Government

9
Electoral Bill
To address the issues arising from the recent Supreme Court judgement concerning assenting to the nomination of non-party candidates at Dáil elections
Finance

10
Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Bill
To amend the statutory framework for Ireland's covered bonds regime, as established by the Assets Covered Securities Act 2001, so as to ensure Ireland's competitiveness in the wake of recent international and EU developments in the covered bonds market

11
Ethics Bill
To amend current ethics legislation to require office holders and Oireachtas members to seek the opinion of the Standards in Public Office Commission before accepting a significant gift or loan from a friend, and to abide by that decision

12
Finance Bill
To give statutory effect to Budget Day decisions and to make other changes to tax law

13
Markets in Financial Instruments Bill
To transpose certain provisions of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive which require primary legislation and to make necessary technical amendments to various Acts
Foreign Affairs

14
Passports Bill
To regulate the issuance of passports, to assist in the introduction of biometric Irish passports and to address the need to introduce a series of new offences relating to the fraudulent use of passports
Health and Children

15
Adoption (Hague Convention, Adoption Authority) Bill
To ratify the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children, to provide for the creation of the Adoption Authority as the Central Authority required under the terms of the Convention to oversee the implementation in effecting intercountry adoptions and to deal with miscellaneous issues regarding domestic adoption

16
Pharmacy (No. 1) Bill
To provide for fitness to practice regulations for pharmacists and the removal of the restriction on pharmacists educated in other EU and EEA countries from managing or supervising a pharmacy in Ireland that is less than 3 years old and to deal with a number of issues raised by the Pharmacy Review Group

17
Voluntary Health Insurance Board (Amendment) Bill
To address VHI's corporate status and related matters
Justice Equality and Law Reform

18
Coroners Bill
To provide for reform of the Coroners Service and to replace the Coroners Act of 1962

19
Courts and Court Officers (Amendment) Bill
To provide for an increase in the number of judges of the High Court, Circuit Court and District Court

20
Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill
To provide for miscellaneous changes to the criminal law and to give effect to a number of international instruments

21
Immigration and Residence Bill
To update the law on immigration, residence and other matters relating to non-nationals
Social and Family Affairs

22
Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill
To provide for certain outstanding Budget measures scheduled to take effect during 2007
Taoiseach

23
Statute Law Revision Bill
To remove 3,000 obsolete and redundant primary Acts that predate the foundation of the State from the Irish Statute Book
Transport

24
Dublin Transport Authority Bill
To provide for the establishment of a transport authority to oversee the implementation of Transport 21 in the Greater Dublin Area

25
Roads (Amendment) Bill
To amend legislation relating to roads and the National Roads Authority