Public Sector Standards Bill 2015
Public bill · Government · Presented
A new Public Sector Standards Commissioner would replace the current ethics body and oversee complaints, investigations, advice and reporting on standards in public life. Public officials would face clearer rules on declaring interests, avoiding conflicts of interest, protecting confidential information, not taking improper gifts or benefits, and providing tax clearance in certain cases; local councillors would also face tighter limits around land dealings. It also creates an outside appointments board to review some post-public-sector jobs, with fines, suspension, disqualification and other sanctions for serious breaches.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of the Office of Public Sector Standards Commissioner, to define the functions of the holder of that office and, in addition, to confer on that holder certain functions of the Standards in Public Office Commission, to provide for standards of conduct for public officials and impose on them certain obligations in connection therewith, to provide sanctions in cases of non-compliance with those obligations, to provide for the investigation of complaints that those obligations have not been complied with, to provide for a system of disclosure of interests, to provide for the furnishing of tax clearance certificates to the Office of Public Sector Standards Commissioner by certain public officials, to establish an outside appointments board and confer on it certain functions, to repeal certain provisions of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 and the Standards in Public Office Act 2001, and Part XV of Local Government Act 2001, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 19 February 2020
- Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage Dáil
- Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Second Stage Dáil
- Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Referral to Select Committee Dáil