Agenda Articles

The Government Legislation Programme for the Spring 2025 session has been published. The Cabinet has approved 21 bills for priority publication and 29 bills for priority drafting. Priority legislation includes the EU Data Regulation Bill, the Media Regulation Bill and the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill.

On 30 August 2024, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications published the General Scheme for the National Cyber Security Bill 2024 (CSB).

In M.H. v Child and Family Agency, a 2023 ex tempore judgment, the Circuit Court (Court) awarded the plaintiff €7,500 for non-material damages under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Irish Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the Act) entered into force on 6 January 2025, introducing mandatory notification and pre-clearance for in scope transactions.

In its last quarterly Insurance Newsletter of 2024, the Central Bank of Ireland (Central Bank) provided an update that it has revised its Notification Guidance for (Re)insurance Undertakings when Outsourcing Critical or Important Functions or Activities (CIFA) under Solvency II (Guidance).

While it may seem that we have been talking about the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) since the beginning of time, DORA’s application date finally arrived on Friday, 17 January 2025.

In November 2024, The Central Bank of Ireland (Central Bank) published Guidance on its expectations for applicants seeking authorisation from the Central Bank to operate as a regulated firm (Cross Sectoral Guidance).

Provisions strengthening the powers of Ireland’s corporate watchdog, the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA), contained in the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 (2024 Act), came into operation on 3 December 2024.

A recent High Court case has illustrated the powers the courts have under the Companies Acts to make directors personally responsible for the actions of a commercial organisation in failing to abide by a court order and the limits of that power.