Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005

Number 21 of 2005

GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 21 October 2020

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 (16/2020), enacted 14 October 2020, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020), made 20 October 2020, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

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Number 21 of 2005


GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 21 October 2020


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1.

Short title.

2.

Interpretation.

3.

Grangegorman site.

4.

Grangegorman neighbourhood.

5.

Establishment day.

6.

Laying of orders before Houses of Oireachtas.

7.

Expenses.

PART 2

Grangegorman Development Agency

8.

Establishment of Agency.

9.

Functions of Agency.

10.

Conferral of additional functions on Agency.

11.

Directives of Minister to Agency.

12.

Strategic plan.

13.

Transfer of lands from statutory body to Agency.

14.

Grants to Agency.

15.

Borrowing by Agency.

16.

Guarantee by Minister for Finance of borrowing by Agency.

17.

Membership of Agency and term of office of members.

18.

Chairperson of Agency.

19.

Meetings of Agency.

20.

Committees of Agency.

21.

Project Working Teams.

22.

Consultative Group.

23.

Chief executive of Agency.

24.

Staff of Agency.

25.

Superannuation.

26.

Membership of the Oireachtas or European Parliament.

27.

Code of conduct.

28.

Declarations of interests.

29.

Disclosure by members of Agency of certain interests.

30.

Disclosure by staff of Agency, etc., of certain interests.

31.

Prohibition on unauthorised disclosure of confidential information.

32.

Gifts.

33.

Accounts and audits.

34.

Accountability of chief executive to Committee of Public Accounts.

35.

Accountability of chief executive to other Oireachtas Committees.

36.

Reports and information to Minister.

37.

Consultants and advisers.

38.

Seal of Agency.

39.

Indemnification.

40.

Immunity of Agency.

41.

Dissolution of Agency.

PART 3

Miscellaneous

42.

Amendment of Planning and Development Act 2000.

43.

Amendment of National Development Finance Agency Act 2002.

SCHEDULE 1

Description of Grangegorman Site

SCHEDULE 2

Grangegorman Neighbourhood

SCHEDULE 3

Properties of Dublin Institute of Technology

SCHEDULE 4

Election of Residents' Nominee to the Agency and Residents’ Members of the Consultative Group

Acts Referred to

Borrowing Powers of Certain Bodies Act 1996

1996, No. 22

Companies Acts 1963 to 2003

Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992

1992, No. 15

European Parliament Elections Act 1997

1997, No. 2

Harbours Acts 1946 to 1976

Health Act 2004

2004, No. 42

Housing Act 1966

1966, No. 21

Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998

1998, No. 34

Industrial Development Act 1993

1993, No. 19

Local Government Act 2001

2001, No. 37

National Development Finance Agency Act 2002

2002, No. 29

Planning and Development Act 2000

2000, No. 30

Urban Renewal Act 1986

1986, No. 19

Vocational Education Act 1930

1930, No. 29


Number 21 of 2005


GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT 2005

REVISED

Updated to 21 October 2020


AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AREA IN GRANGEGORMAN, DUBLIN AS A LOCATION FOR EDUCATION, HEALTH AND OTHER FACILITIES, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BODY TO BE KNOWN AS GNÍOMHAIREACHT FORBARTHA GHRÁINSEACH GHORMÁIN, OR IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, THE GRANGEGORMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, TO DEFINE ITS FUNCTIONS, TO AMEND THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2000 AND THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGENCY ACT 2002 AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.

[11th July, 2005]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

C1

Functions transferred and references construed (21.10.2020) by Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020), arts. 2, 3(1)(a), (2) and sch., in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 4-8.

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

(2) References to the Department of Education and Skills contained in any Act or any instrument made under such Act and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Education and Skills -

(a) by or under the Acts specified in Part 1 of the Schedule, and

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are transferred to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

(2) References to the Minister for Education and Skills contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

SCHEDULE

Article 3

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