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The remaining discretionary powers, which do require prior consultation with the Council of State, are as follows (for a detailed description of the president's reserve powers see: President of Ireland#Discretionary powers): Convening a meeting of either or both Houses of the Oireachtas [21] Addressing the Oireachtas [22] Addressing the Nation [23]
The Citizens' Assembly (Irish: An Tionól Saoránach [1] and also known as We The Citizens [2]) is a citizens' assembly established in Ireland in 2016 to consider several political questions including the Constitution of Ireland. [3] Questions considered include: abortion, fixed term parliaments, referendums, population ageing, and climate change.
W. T. Cosgrave, whose government drafted the principal act. The Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2020 [1] is the legislation which governs the appointment of ministers to the Government of Ireland and the allocation of functions between departments of state.
The Local Government Reform Act 2014 (No. 1) is an act of the Oireachtas which provided for a major restructuring of local government in Ireland with effect from the 2014 local elections. It merged some first-tier county and city councils, abolished all second-tier town and borough councils , and created a new second tier of municipal districts ...
The functions of local government in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-one local authorities, termed County, City, or City and County Councils. [1] [2] [3] The principal decision-making body in each of the thirty-one local authorities is composed of the members of the council, elected by universal franchise in local elections every five years from multi-seat local ...
The detail and structure of the Government of Ireland has its legislative basis in the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; it has been amended on a number of occasions, and these may be cited together as the Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2017 and are construed together as one Act. All governments from 1989 to 2016 were coalitions of ...
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The Parliament of Northern Ireland was abolished outright by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973; [14] legislative competence was conferred instead on the Northern Ireland Assembly. The 1973 Act set out a list of excepted matters (sch. 2) and "minimum" reserved matters (sch. 3).