Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010
Public bill · Private Member · Presented
The Bill would give Oireachtas committees clear legal authority to investigate matters relevant to making laws, overseeing government and examining failures in public administration, with powers to call witnesses and obtain documents. Committees could recommend reforms and use experts or investigators, but could not decide or imply that any individual was civilly or criminally liable.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to confer on each House of the Oireachtas and on both of them acting jointly, through committees, a power to appoint inquiries into and to commission reports upon matters relevant to the exercise of the legislative power of the State including defects in social, economic or administrative systems and systems of governance within the State, for the purpose of proposing legislation to remedy any defects so identified and to make recommendations for the better regulation and governance of the State; and to provide for connected matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Pat Rabbitte Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil Defeated
- Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage. Dáil
- Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage. Dáil