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No. 46 of 2024

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024

Public bill · Government · Presented

Stronger rules would be put in place for early years services that break child-care regulations, giving the Child and Family Agency more powers to inspect, require fixes, publish information for parents, and, in serious cases, temporarily shut services or seek court closure. It would also bring paid, non-relative childminders into a clearer regulatory system, with a three-year transition period for registration, while keeping limited family-based exemptions and updating related child protection and vetting laws.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for additional enforcement measures in respect of the provision, in contravention of Part VIIA of the Child Care Act 1991, of prescribed early years services; to confer additional enforcement powers on the Child and Family Agency in respect of those measures; to provide for the regulation of childminding services; to repeal provisions for exemption, in certain cases, from the application of Part VIIA of the Child Care Act 1991 to the care of children; to provide for transitional arrangements; for those and other purposes to amend the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012, the Children First Act 2015 and the Childcare Support Act 2018; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 30 August 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 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
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Dáil
  • Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage
    Dáil
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