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Child Maintenance Bill 2026

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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Houses of the Oireachtas
Chamber
Seanad Éireann
Reference
Bill 35 of 2026
Stage
Second Stage
Status
Current
Introduced
2025-01-21
Scheduled
2025-01-21
Sponsor
Pauline Tully, Patricia Stephenson, Nessa Cosgrove, Lynn Ruane, Alice-Mary Higgins, Eileen Flynn, Frances Black, Laura Harmon, Maria McCormack, Nicole Ryan, Sharon Keogan, Joanne Collins, Sarah O'Reilly
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