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ARTICLE · 26 FEBRUARY 2025

Spring Cleaning: Legislative Plans For Cybersecurity, Business Data, AI, And E-Evidence

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On 18 February, the Government published its new Legislation Programme setting out legislation to be published or drafted as a priority this Spring 2025 (the "Programme").

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On 18 February, the Government published its new Legislation Programme setting out legislation to be published or drafted as a priority this Spring 2025 (the "Programme"). As anticipated, the Programme includes legislation to support the most recent big ticket EU legislative initiatives in the technology sector, namely, the NIS2 Directive, the Data Act and the AI Act.

National Cyber Security Bill

The National Cyber Security Bill to transpose Network and Information Security Directive 2022/2555 (the "NIS2 Directive") is listed as one of the Bills for priority publication during the Spring session 2025.

Ireland missed the transposition deadline for the NIS2 Directive of 17 October 2024. Although a General Scheme for the National Cyber Security Bill 2024 was published last August, pre-legislative scrutiny is ongoing. The Scheme designates a number of competent authorities for supervisory and enforcement purposes on a sector-specific basis. The Bill will more

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