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Child Maintenance Bill 2026: First Stage

Summary

Leave was granted to introduce the Child Maintenance Bill 2026, which would let Revenue assess and enforce child maintenance, with Second Stage set for next Tuesday.

Bill Child Maintenance Bill 2026
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No. 35 of 2026 ›

I move:

That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the administrative assessment, by the Revenue Commissioners, of liabilities of certain persons to pay periodic maintenance in respect of a child; to provide for a standard methodology for making such an assessment; to provide for the enforceability of such assessments in certain circumstances; to empower the Revenue Commissioners to depart from a standard methodology for making an assessment of child maintenance in certain circumstances; to provide for updated assessments of child maintenance in certain circumstances; to prohibit, in the interests of the common good, the making of certain applications to court unless certain circumstances apply; to provide for appeals from certain determinations and decisions of the Revenue Commissioners; and to provide for related matters.

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Mark Daly An Cathaoirleach Fianna Fáil

When is it proposed to take Second Stage?

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Next Tuesday.

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Mark Daly An Cathaoirleach Fianna Fáil

Is that agreed? Agreed.

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