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Seanad Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2026

Vol. 312 No. 6

Child Maintenance Bill 2026: First Stage

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.

Question put and agreed to.

When is it proposed to take Second Stage?

Is that agreed? Agreed.

Second Stage ordered for Tuesday, 31 March 2026.
Cuireadh an Seanad ar fionraí ar 4.34 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 4.47 p.m.
Sitting suspended at 4.34 p.m. and resumed at 4.47 p.m.
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