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Version status: Amended
Version date: 29 March 2023 - onwards
Version 4 of 4

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 (enacted 4 April 2023)

Enacted Bill, signed into law by the President on the 4th April 2023.
This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 5 October 2022 by Dáil Éireann
Introduction of this Bill

Bill entitled an Act to give further effect to Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU and, for that purpose, to amend the Parental Leave Act 1998 to entitle certain employees to leave for medical care purposes and to request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes; and for those and other purposes to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, the Maternity Protection Act 1994, the Adoptive Leave Act 1995, the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 and the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.

Sponsor
Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Source
Government
Originating House
Dáil Éireann
History of this Bill
Date Stage House Document Link
29 March 2023 5 Dáil Éireann Bills As Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
29 March 2023 5 Dáil Éireann Debates From the Seanad
1 March 2023 4 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Cream List [Seanad amendments to Dáil Bill]
1 March 2023 4 Seanad Éireann Debates Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
1 March 2023 4 Seanad Éireann Debates Report Stage
1 March 2023 4 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Seanad]
15 February 2023 3 Seanad Éireann Debates Committee Stage (Resumed)
31 January 2023 3 Seanad Éireann Debates Committee Stage
31 January 2023 3 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Seanad]
30 January 2023 5 Dáil Éireann Bills As passed by Dáil Éireann - corrections
28 December 2022 3 Seanad Éireann Other Documents Bill Digest
14 December 2022 2 Seanad Éireann Debates Second Stage
7 December 2022 5 Dáil Éireann Bills As passed by Dáil Éireann
7 December 2022 4 Dáil Éireann Debates Report and Final Stages
6 December 2022 4 Dáil Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Dáil]
8 November 2022 3 Dáil Éireann Debates Committee Stage
8 November 2022 3 Dáil Éireann Bills As amended in Committee/Select Committee (Dáil Eireann)
7 November 2022 3 Dáil Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Dáil]
13 October 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Second Stage (Resumed)
13 October 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Referral to Select Committee
12 October 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Second Stage
5 October 2022 1 Dáil Éireann Explanatory memoranda Explanatory Memorandum
5 October 2022 1 Dáil Éireann Bills As initiated
This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 5 October 2022 by Dáil Éireann