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No. 91 of 2022

Employment Permits Bill 2022

Public bill · Government · Presented

Updates and replaces Ireland’s employment-permit rules for non-EEA workers, keeping the basic system but making it clearer and more flexible. It adds a seasonal permit, updates the checks for hiring from abroad, allows extra conditions such as training or accommodation in some cases, and sets out how permits are granted, renewed, refused, cancelled, and appealed. It also tightens enforcement against illegal employment and fraud, while giving some workers a route to claim pay they should have received if they worked without the right permit.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the grant of employment permits to certain foreign nationals for the purpose of permitting such persons to be in employment in the State; to prohibit the employment in the State of certain foreign nationals who do not have such permits; to impose certain restrictions and conditions in respect of the grant of such permits; to enable the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to make, having regard to certain matters, regulations to impose certain other restrictions and conditions in respect of the grant of such permits; to provide for the enforcement of provisions of this Act and the imposition of penalties for contraventions of this Act; to provide for civil proceedings to recompense certain foreign nationals for work done or services rendered in certain circumstances; to otherwise regulate the employment in the State of certain foreign nationals; to repeal the Employment Permits Act 2003 and the Employment Permits Act 2006; to provide for consequential amendment to certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Cream List
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Financial Resolution
    Dáil
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Employment Permits Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil

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